I am currently reading a Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball. The title pretty clearly explains what it’s about. In one of the early chapters I came across a little tidbit of information that I found to be rather amusing: When a Western Union operator tried to enter the grounds, [Charles] Comiskey refused [...]
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In Rememberance of Tommy Henrich
Tommy Henrich played on four Yankees Championship teams and was known for being a clutch hitter. Whether that’s true or not (it’s probably not, that title is just the kind of thing that winds up sticking around forever once you do it a few times) there are other, more important and frankly more interesting things [...]
Offseason Reading List
There’s no more MLB baseball for me to watch in 2009 and while some games from the Dominican, Venezuelan and Puerto Rican Winter Leagues will be made available it isn’t the constant stream you get during the regular season. So I’ve assembled an offseason reading list to keep me from missing watching a game pretty [...]
A Well Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports
I read a lot of books about baseball when there is no actual baseball going on (ok I do it when there is baseball going on too). I figure I might as well incorporate the Now Reading plugin stuff (that’s the “baseball library” link in the top nav) with actual posts. – When Curt Flood [...]
Unclutch History Maker
The replay rule was enacted in part because of a bad call on what should have been an Alex Rodriguez homerun against the Orioles and tonight an Alex Rodriguez homerun became the first to be reviewed! I was watching the game on YES, which showed pretty clearly it was fair (Al Leiter and Ken Singleton [...]
