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Can Tropical Wind’s Ever Blow Strong for Cuban Baseball Again?

August 14, 2017 by Ted Leavengood

Cuba is a complicated issue and most American fans don’t have the time. For those that do, there is author Peter Bjarkman, faithfully trying to peal back the layers of intrigue and politics until there is only the love of the game that Cubans and Americans share. Peter Bjarkman’s recently published book, Cuba’s Baseball Defectors,... Read more of this article

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How Murderers’ Row Shaped Baseball

August 13, 2017 by Harvey Frommer

When Yankee owner Colonel Ruppert’s “Rough Riders,” as some called them in the late 1920s, were not going head to head against their American League competition, they were playing exhibition games in Buffalo, Omaha, Rochester, Columbus, Dayton, Indianapolis… Everyone in the little cities and small towns wanted to catch a glimpse... Read more of this article

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Dog Days at Fenway Park

August 9, 2017 by Harvey Frommer

With the crowds having fun at the hub in Boston, with the team gearing up to go deep this October, with a roster loaded with talent and more on the way, a flashback to Sox in the Sixties is almost like culture shock. September 28th, 1960, Red Sox vs. Orioles.  Overcast, dank, chilly the final day of the final home stand of the 1960 season. Only 10,454... Read more of this article

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Remembering The Yankee Clipper

August 5, 2017 by Harvey Frommer

All the hype and histrionics over Aaron Judge and some of the over-reaching comparisons to Joe DiMaggio trigger the need to go back and re-visit what the Yankee legend was all about. He was born Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio on November 25, 1914 in Martinez, California, one of nine children of Rosalie and Giuseppe DiMaggio, a crab fisherman father, an... Read more of this article

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Dusty Watches from the Wings with a Grin

August 1, 2017 by Ted Leavengood

It was another trading deadline where Hollywood and Broadway got all the press. The rest was just community theater. The Dodgers walked away with the biggest prizes and the Yankees did well in a supporting role. But for all of the ink that Yu Darvish and Sonny Gray will generate, Washington Nationals manager, Dusty Baker, has to be wearing a pretty... Read more of this article

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Remembering Mel Allen

July 26, 2017 by Harvey Frommer

I had the very good fortune in 1990 to visit the legendary Mel Allen at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut. I was there to collect memorabilia for the “Stars of David: Jews in Sports” exhibit that I was the curator and executive producer for at the Klutznik Museum in Washington, D.C. My wife Myrna came along with me. Mel had his sister Esther at... Read more of this article

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Baseball Birthplaces and the Retro World Baseball Classic

July 23, 2017 by Derek Bain

Upon the conclusion of the 2017 World Baseball Classic (the fourth iteration of the tournament which began in 2006), I started to wonder how the rosters would have looked in previous years. Using stricter rules for roster construction (basing all rosters on birthplace alone, 20-year periods between tournaments and additional stipulations outlined in... Read more of this article

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The Wisdom of Current MLB Policy Toward Cuba, Central and South America

July 11, 2017 by Ted Leavengood

Recent Henry Chadwick Award-winning baseball writer, Peter Bjarkman, came on the Seamheads Podcasting Network both in 2014 and 2015 during a very different time. President Obama’s easing of travel restrictions with Cuba seemed to herald a new era for Cuban baseball and ideas of innovation and hope sprang anew. Fellow SABR-member Pete Cottrell... Read more of this article

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Where Did All the Pitchers Go?

July 4, 2017 by Bill Gilbert

June was a challenging month for the Houston Astros as four of the five pitchers that were in the opening day starting rotation hit the disabled list. As a result, thirteen of the team’s 27 games in June were started by rookies and the results weren’t pretty. Fortunately, Mike Fiers, the only member of the original starting rotation that remained... Read more of this article

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Ross Barnes to be Honored With Memorial

June 26, 2017 by David Stalker

I am pleased to announce that on Saturday August 19, 2017 at 11:00 am in Mt. Morris, New York a monument will be dedicated honoring base ball pioneer Ross Barnes. The public is invited. This will be at a small park in the village center. The Barnes memorial will be placed next to an old refurbished fountain which already has a memorial for Francis Bellamy,... Read more of this article

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