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BACK IN TIME: A TRIP TO HISTORIC WARREN BALLPARK

January 4, 2020

Driving south from Tucson on Arizona Highway 80, beyond the Wild West outpost-turned-tourist trap of Tombstone, past an endless landscape of sagebrush and cactus, you enter a tunnel carved into the Mule Mountains near the Mexican border. When you exit that tunnel, it’s as if you have traveled back in time. Welcome to Bisbee, Arizona. […]

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STEVE DALKOWSKI: THE FASTEST EVER?

January 4, 2020

“His fastball was like nothing I’d ever seen before. It really rose as it left his hand. If you told him to aim the ball at home plate, that ball would cross the plate at the batter’s shoulders. That was because of the tremendous backspin he could put on the ball.” – Pat Gillick No one […]

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THE UNAPPRECIATED CURT FLOOD

January 4, 2020

For decades, baseball’s Reserve Clause bound a player to a team unless he was traded, sold, or released. A player had zero bargaining power at contract time other than refusing the owner’s terms, forcing him to quit baseball. The “status quo” of the Reserve Clause received its first litmus test following a trade on October […]

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WAS THE FEDERAL LEAGUE REALLY A MAJOR LEAGUE?

January 4, 2020

Nearly 45 years ago, five men made a decision that has colored our view of baseball history ever since. Collectively, they were known as Special Baseball Records Committee, and they were brought together because, with the imminent publication of the first edition of The Baseball Encyclopedia, “it became necessary to draw up a code of […]

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A ROSE BY ANOTHER NAME: RAY FISHER’S BAN FROM BASEBALL

January 4, 2020

Ray Fisher Ban in baseball league

“Charlie Hustle” was back in the news recently, making his case for reinstatement. Pete Rose’s banishment from baseball is a saga that’s well known to most fans—the then-Cincinnati Reds manager agreed to a lifetime ban from Commissioner Bart Giamatti in 1989 after an investigation revealed that he had bet on his own team for years. […]

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