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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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Paul White
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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Paul White
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…
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Paul White
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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Bad Decisions: Trading Dennis Eckersley
On June 4, 1977, in a game at the Kingdome against the expansion Seattle Mariners, Indians centerfielder Rick Manning was having a great night. He’d…
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Paul White
Educating Twitter: No One "Robbed" Aaron Judge
I am but a mortal man. Like everyone, I have weaknesses. I eat food that isn’t good for me. I don’t floss as much as I should. I unfairly judge people…
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Paul White
The World Series No-Hitter That Wasn't
Bill Bevens was hurting. Somewhere during that fourth game of the 1947 World Series, his pitching arm had started to hurt. It had never given him any…
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Paul White
Friday Stuff
Monday We began the week with an ode to scorekeepers everywhere. One super awesome guy on Twitter re-posted it with the snarky, yet…
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Paul White
Baseball Remembers: Ripper Collins
What a name, right? “Ripper.” I mentioned last week that we don’t have enough great nicknames anymore, and this is exactly what I’m talking about…
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Bad Decisions: Gutting the Phillies’ Farm
Before the 1982 season, the Philadelphia Phillies had an embarrassment of riches when it came to the shortstops in their system. Larry Bowa had been…
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