WHY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION WAS A MAJOR LEAGUE
Major and minor are relative terms; something is major or minor based upon its relative position among a group of objects. In the […]
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Harry Stovey: Forgotten Five-Tool Star
Today’s age of Sabermetrics is bringing us a stream of more and more complicated statistics that measure more and more
Sol White’s 1907 “History of Colored Base Ball”
“Baseball is a legitimate profession. It should be taken seriously by the colored player. An honest effort of his great
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Lon Warneke, a most judicious pitcher
In a 1944 interview near the end of his pitching career, Lon Warneke summed up the attitude of a consummate
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The CBS-era New York Yankees
When New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner died in 2010, having presided over the franchise for 37 years and seven
THE BIRTH OF THE RYAN EXPRESS
Bob Klapisch remembers the extraordinary career of pitcher Nolan Ryan—whose strong but inconsistent performance with the team that drafted him
Baseball for breakfast: Kellogg’s 3-D Super Stars
When I first starting collecting baseball cards back in the 1970s, Topps had a virtual monopoly on the industry. There
HOW THE WORLD SERIES ORIGINATED—AND ALMOST UNRAVELED
On October 11, 1902, the closest thing to a World Series that year reached its anticlimactic finish. In front of
THE 1917 FENWAY PARK GAMBLERS RIOT
Part 3 Now that we’ve established how gambling was entrenched in baseball culture as far back as the 1860s and how baseball