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This week we’re making a slight break with chronological order and adding the 1933 Negro leagues to the DB. Many thanks to Scott Simkus, the creator of the Strat-O-Matic Negro leagues set, who did most of the heavy lifting on this. The year 1933 marked something of a fresh beginning for the Negro leagues, with […]
Filed under Negro Leagues Database, Top Stories · Tagged with American Giants, American Negro League, Chronological Order, Dog Racing, Eastern Colored League, Economic Times, Elite Giants, Greenlee, Heavy Lifting, Home Games, Homestead Grays, Low Attendance, Negro Leagues, Negro National League, Negro Southern League, Pittsburgh Crawfords, Posey, Rube Foster, Star Game, Strat O Matic
After five years of poking around, I’ve rebuilt 99% of the 1928 Homestead Grays schedule, have located results for 150 games, and box scores for more than 100 contests. This week, in the Seamhead’s Outsider Baseball Bulletin, I reveal some new details from the OBB’s latest archaelogical dig. Included: Five home runs in one double-header […]
Filed under General · Tagged with 100 Contests, Archaelogical, baseball, Box Scores, Color Cards, Double Header, Games, Homestead Grays, John Beckwith, New Details, New Subscriber, OBB, Outsider, Trading Cards
In 1956 a monument was dedicated to Clark Griffith outside old Griffith Stadium just months after the former owner of the team and stadium died. Â His passing was marked by every major newspaper, his funeral attended by every official of the game. Â He was recognized as a giant of the game whose place in Cooperstown […]
Filed under A View from the Capital, General, Top Stories · Tagged with 100 Years, 22 Years, Addie, Allegations, Baseball Club, Baseball History, Brad Snyder, Bucky, Cap Stone, Characterization, Clark Griffith, Controversy, Corner Stones, Debts, Disrepair, Disrespect, Edifice, Epilogue, Family Man, Fans, Four Seasons, Goose Goslin, Grass, Great Depression, Greed, Griffit, Griffith Stadium, Homestead Grays, Hometown, Howard University, Isolation, Joe Cronin, Josh Gibson, Last Hero, League Pennants, Minneapolis, National Pastime, Nephew, New Biography, Nickel, Old Fox, Opposition, Organization Man, Park Grass, Pavement, Player Manager, Prejudice, Professional Baseball Team, Sentimental Favorite, Sheen, Sidewalks, Statues, Tenure, Three Men, Toil, Tom Noyes, Trai, Walter Johnson, Washington Dc, Washington Nationals, Washington Nationals Baseball, Washington Senators, Washington Star, Winn, Winning Team, World Series
