It’s easy to mark down steroids as one of the dark eras of the National Pastime without paying attention to what this scandal did for the game and why steroids were actually good for the game of baseball.

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The 1910 pre-Yankees may have had the most unexpected second-place finish in baseball history.

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Did Tom Downey’s major league career begin in 1908 or 1909?

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The second part of my three part series focuses on the 1914 season of the Federal League. Part one can be viewed here.

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Is the pending sale of Wrigley Field to the State of Illinois a good idea?

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I was combing through all of my old baseball cards when I came across something I had forgotten all about.

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This appeared in NOTES #38, back in October 1993, when NOTES was a rookie.

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Why sabermetrics needs scouts and baseball history (and the other way around)

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Matt Sisson recently sat down with author, Gene Carney, to talk about his love for baseball writing, his new book, A Baseball Family Album, and the opening of a Shoeless Joe Jackson museum in Greenville, SC.

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This is the third of a series of articles I’ll be writing about infamous trades of the past in which a superstar player was dealt for multiple players of lesser talent or value.

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Additional teams in New York and Boston will bring about more ‘competitive balance’ than any shady non-compete agreement that we already have.

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In the second of a 10-part series, the author takes an in-depth look at Major League Baseball history from 1911 to 1920.

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Here are the 25 right fielders who had the best careers during the 20^th century (as measured by the NEWS HOF Gauge).

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Best wishes for a happy and safe St. Patrick’s day from the staff at Seamheads.com.

Angels look to repeat in 2008

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Tight 4-team race excludes Giants

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Part two takes a more speculative look at the future of the 300-game winner in the Majors.

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Thanks to Billy Crystal, the Pirates are not only inept, but they’re now a side-show attraction.

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The first part of my three part series focuses on the beginnings of the short-lived Federal League right up to the start of the 1914 season.

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This list doesn’t seek to be comprehensive, nor are the players listed in any particular order. This is just ten guys who have had one or two good seasons but haven’t become household names (yet). Special thanks to the other guys at Seamheads.com for their suggestions. Next week of course I’ll have ten AL players to watch.

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Dusty Baker has been called a “OBP-hating Luddite,” but his theory about young hitters is no different than that of Bill James.

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How to make a stats geek hate your statistical analysis.

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