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Monday This was the anniversary of Satchel Paige’s final appearance in a major league game. I’ve always felt a connection to Paige, for a few reasons…
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Baseball Remembers: Toby Harrah
From Dictionary.com: “palindrome [pal-in-drohm] noun a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm…
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The Origins of Night Baseball
I wrote a fun piece for today’s Here's the Pitch: the IBWAA Newsletter about how a small college for Native Americans in Lawrence, Kansas, played a…
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Educating Twitter: Positions Matter
Sometimes, when people are dead-set on not liking or understanding something, they will tie themselves into logical knots trying to defend the position…
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Norman Rockwell's Red Sox
It’s probably not surprising that a guy who likes baseball and history also likes the paintings of Norman Rockwell. His nostalgic works evoked both of…
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Be Nice to the Scorekeeper
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Enough With Don Mattingly
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Ballpark Review - Citi Field
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Monday I try to avoid pop culture stuff here. It’s fleeting, by design, which doesn’t really mesh with my focus on history here, and it rarely touches…
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Baseball Remembers: Vic Raschi
Vic Raschi deserves to be remembered, if only because the fireballing native of Springfield, MA, home of the main armory where rifles were made for the…
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Bad Decisions: The 1980 NL Rookie of the Year
For a while in the 1970s and 80s, it became sort of a thing to talk about how remarkable the Dodger farm system was. “Their whole infield is homegrown…
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Educating Twitter: Justin Turner, Hall of Famer?
I’m going to make this one pretty short and sweet: No, Justin Turner would not “probably be a Hall-of-Famer” if he’d been given “a fair shot at playing…
Sep 19
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Character Letters
One would imagine that the recent controversy involving a certain Hollywood celebrity being convicted of terrible crimes, and certain other Hollywood…
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Friday Stuff
Monday While doing research for my book (coming to you in 2024 from McFarland Publishers!!), I came across the story of Bill Bevens, and his near…
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Baseball Remembers: Henry Kimbro
It’s difficult to quantify how good Henry Kimbro was. He played in the Negro Leagues, and statistics weren’t kept in the same way they were in the White…
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A view of baseball history from historian, author, and SABR member Paul White.
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