They Were Once Known As…
March 19, 2010 by Brendan Macgranachan · 5 Comments
Over the course of baseball history, many teams have made changes to their nicknames and plenty have stuck. The New York Highlanders officially switched over to the Yankees in 1913 and haven’t looked back. Neither have the Chicago Cubs, who were known as the Colts (1890-97) and Orphans (1898-1902) before changing to their current moniker. […]
How to Get Your Phillies Phix
Hardcore Phillies Phan? Looking to take your Phandom to a new level? Want to be the Phillies Guru at work? If you answered “Yes†to any of these questions then the Maple Street Press 2010 Phillies Annual is a must have. The kind people at MSP provided me with a complimentary copy of their publication […]
Book Review: Joe Cronin, A Life In Baseball
March 12, 2010 by Daniel Shoptaw · Leave a Comment
One of the perks of being a baseball bloggers is, at times, you get a chance to get a free baseball book on the off-chance that you’ll write about it to an audience that may care what you have to say. Â I’ve had four or five of these opportunities come directly to me, but this […]
Rambling on About My Glory Days – Joe, You are Remembered
February 28, 2010 by Jack Perconte · 1 Comment
Curt Flood took a stance to help players and teammates and made his mark on baseball history. Some guys make their mark with great statistics, whereas others are remembered for other things. Players often take stances day in and day out for their teammates that are not as momentous or reported, but they are never […]
A Proper Frame for Stephen Strasburg
February 28, 2010 by Ted Leavengood · 1 Comment
Hall of Fame pitcher Walter Johnson left southern California in 1907 a shy young man who was uncertain why the Washington Senators thought he was going to be a star. Manager Cantillon had heard from scouts the kid was a unique talent-77 straight scoreless innings, 166 strikeouts in eleven games. Now, a century later, another […]
Selig, Owners Announce Re-Invention Of Sport
February 23, 2010 by Gabriel Schechter · Leave a Comment
In a surprise announcement following the winter meetings attended by owners and generals managers, “Commissioner” Bud Selig declared his intention of re-inventing the sport known as baseball. “Let’s face it,” Selig told the press. “We’ve screwed this game up so thoroughly that it has almost no meaning for anyone any more. Fans don’t know what […]
Nelson, How Could You Forget?
February 16, 2010 by Chip Greene · Leave a Comment
Back in the mid-70s, when I was perhaps 11 or 12 years old, I vividly recall asking my grandfather if he ever pitched to Babe Ruth. At the time, it seemed like a logical question; not knowing much about baseball history, nor about granddad’s career, I simply pulled from thin air the most famous old-time […]
Alabama, the Cradle of Baseball Greatness
December 12, 2009 by Arne Christensen · 3 Comments
A little while ago I started to realize that Alabama has produced some of the greatest players in baseball history. I remembered reading Bill James making a point somewhere in his Historical Baseball Abstract from the ’80s about sports players tending to come from poor areas. I thought about Willie Mays and Hank Aaron, and […]
Book Review: “The Baseball Talmud”
March 18, 2009 by Mike Lynch · 2 Comments
Howard Megdal’s The Baseball Talmud: The Definitive Position-By-Position Ranking of Baseball’s Chosen Players was a joy to read, even for an Agnostic like me.
“Ted Williams and the 1969 Washington Senators, the Last Winning Season”
December 11, 2008 by Ted Leavengood · 3 Comments
The author’s second book, Ted Williams and the 1969 Washington Senators: The Last Winning Season, is scheduled to be released by McFarland Publishing on February 24, 2009.
