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I enjoy linking history to today, events in baseball’s past to what is happening this season. So the title above not only fits the two items in this issue, but covers a lot of my stuff.

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This issue concludes my eleven-part series on “Baseball History,” with a look at 1995-200. It’s been fun writing this series, and I recommend it to others. No, seriously — try it, see what happens.

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This was supposed to be an issue covering the 1990s, but it turns out that it just covers the first five years of that span. I predicted a somewhat different take on this decade, and I was right about that. But I had not expected my excerpting and reflecting on my old scorebooks, to take up so much space. Rather than post a 30-page issue, I’ll return to the Nineties in #447.

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In the ninth of a 10-part series, the author takes an in-depth look at Major League Baseball history from 1981 to 1989.

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In the eighth of a 10-part series, the author takes an in-depth look at Major League Baseball history from 1971 to 1980.

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In the seventh of a 10-part series, the author takes an in-depth look at Major League Baseball history from 1961 to 1970.

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In the sixth of a 10-part series, the author takes an in-depth look at Major League Baseball history from 1951 to 1960.

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In the fifth of a 10-part series, the author takes an in-depth look at Major League Baseball history from 1941 to 1950.

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In the fourth of a 10-part series, the author takes an in-depth look at Major League Baseball history from 1931 to 1940.

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In the third of a 10-part series, the author takes an in-depth look at Major League Baseball history from 1921 to 1930.

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

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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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I often write about the Hall of Fame. Here is a story that appeared in FAN Magazine #7. It was my introduction to Mike Schacht, who had advertised in the SABR Bulletin for baseball stories with a father/son theme.

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In the first of a 10-part series, the author takes an in-depth look at Major League Baseball history from 1900 to 1910.

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