True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson by Kostya Kennedy is a probing, richly-detailed, unique biography of Jackie Robinson, one of baseball’s—and America’s—most significant figures. Read an excerpt below.… Read the article
With Major League Baseball emerging from its winter slumber, fans tend to acknowledge what anniversaries the new season brings us. In 2019, it was the centennial of the infamous Black Sox scandal, when gangsters fixed the outcome … Read the article
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
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
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
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 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