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Wild Bill: Baseball “Player”
Posted on February 28, 2019 1:27 pm Leave your thoughtsby Tom Clavin
With Major League Baseball emerging from its winter slumber, fans tend to acknowledge what anniversaries the new season brings us. The 2019 season is the centennial of the infamous Black Sox scandal, when gangsters fixed the outcome … Read the article

Ron Darling: Game 7, 1986
Posted on April 5, 2016 2:45 pm Leave your thoughtsby Ron Darling with Daniel Paisner
Game 7, 1986: Be careful what you wish for
This book is not like other sports books. Certainly, it’s not like other books by former ballplayers. Athletes seem to want to write about the … Read the article

George Whiteman and the 1918 World Series
Posted on March 11, 2016 4:56 pm Leave your thoughtsby Glenn Stout
George Whiteman: September 11, 1918
In the eighth inning of the sixth and final game of the 1918 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs, with the Red Sox nursing a 2–1 lead … Read the article

The Cardinals Way: In the Spirit of Moneyball
Posted on February 17, 2016 8:45 pm Leave your thoughtsby Howard Megdal
The Cardinals Way Prologue
In working on The Cardinals Way, spending days, weeks, and months with everyone in this organization from owner Bill DeWitt Jr. to current and former Cardinals John Mozeliak, Dan Kantrovitz, Jeff Luhnow, Sig … Read the article

Split Season: Baseball’s Epic Strike of 1981
Posted on May 19, 2015 3:09 pm Leave your thoughtsby Jeff Katz
Those who think Major League Baseball is simply about the play on the field are too romantic and those who think it’s only about the business off the field are too cynical. The truth is somewhere in … Read the article

The Game Must Go On: The Great Days of Baseball During WWII
Posted on May 8, 2015 7:14 pm Leave your thoughtsby John Klima
The war years have often been characterized as a void in time where nothing significant happened. In fact, the war years featured some great teams, great races, great players and great stories and sparked a transformation that … Read the article