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• Brewers stymied by Tarik Skubal and Tigers’ offense in 9-1 loss

Jeff Hanisch-Imagn Images The Brewers couldn’t get going against Tarik Skubal, while the Tigers got to Tyler Alexander Box Score The Brewers faced a tough task on Monday night, going against an ace for the third straight night while on a two-game losing streak. Unfortunately, it didn’t get any better for them. Brewers’ starter Tyler Alexander began the night with a strikeout to Justyn-Henr...2025
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• Estrella named Big Ten Conference Jackie Robinson Award winner

Nanea Estrella of the University of Iowa has been named as the inaugural Big Ten Conference Jackie Robinson Community and Impact Award winner. This is the first year for this prestigious award for the Big Ten that will be presented to a male and female athlete each year. Estrella was presented with the award by […] The post Estrella named Big Ten Conference Jackie Robinson Award winner appea...2025
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• How MLB is commemorating Jackie Robinson Day
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• Braves set their sights on the Blue Jays in Toronto - and here’s how you can watch

Photo by Kathryn Skeean/MLB Photos via Getty Images It’s a trip north of the border for Atlanta. The Atlanta Braves are heading to Canada for a three-game series against Toronto Blue Jays. Coming off of a disappointing series loss against the Tampa Bay Rays, the Braves need a series victory against the Blue Jays to at least go .500 on the team’s second road trip of the season. The Braves...2025
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• Announcement! Black Baseball in Alabama 1870-1950: The Rough Diamonds of Dixie

While waiting for the Biscuits to get their heads together on how they want to handle their most vocal internet supporter, I have much more important news! At the NSL MuseumOn Saturday I enjoyed the Jackie Robinson Day festivities in Birmingham at the Negro Southern League Museum, meeting again with its founder, Dr. Layton Revel as well as Dan Creed, the senior researcher on the NSLM staff. I...2025
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Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead. — Jackie Robinson — Joe Boesch...2025

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• Baseball history unpacked, April 9

Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday to David Robertson and others, plus sad passings and more stories for the discerning reader. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lo...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Damn the torpedoes

Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images The Yankees new bat is causing a stir. There are two new stadiums this year. Willson Contreras eats tape. We remember whom we’ve lost and other news from baseball. I don’t know whether I’m paying tribute to David Farragut or Tom Petty. The Yankees hit nine home runs against the Brewers on Saturday and many were quick to credit/blame New York’s new “torpedo...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, March 17

... the pre-match atmosphere prior to the Six Nations Rugby match between Scotland and Ireland at Murrayfield Stadium... | Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. The National Association of Professional Baseball Players is founded, a battle of Irish managers, Fergie Jenkins retires, and other stories f...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, March 10

Happy Birthday, Donnie Murphy! | Photo by George Gojkovich/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. The last lockout ends, Veeck buys darned Sox, Cactus League fun, and a syzygy. Happy birthday, Donnie Murphy!* On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at ...2025
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• This Day in Braves History: February 28th

Photo by Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images Let’s go back in time! Braves Franchise History 1955: The National League fines the Milwaukee Braves $500 for opening their spring training camp before the official March 1st date. MLB History 1986: In Major League Baseball’s sternest disciplinary move since the 1919 Black Sox were banished for life, Commissioner Peter Ueberroth gives seven p...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, February 14

Photo by FPG/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. The corked ball arrives and ERAs suffer, Mordecai Brown passes, and other stories for the discerning reader. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lor...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, January 31

Happy birthday, Ernie Banks! | Photo by Louis Requena/MLB via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Three Hall-of-Famers were born on this date. One of them was Mr. Cub, Cap Anson is released, and other stories for the discerning reader. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a l...2025
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• Remembering the career of Bobby Shantz

He was a lefty with the heart of a lion. My father used to regale me with stories about old baseball players and teams. I suppose that’s the reason I’m more interested in the old times than the modern game. Dad was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan, so I heard a lot of stories about “Dem Bums” growing up, but he also had an appreciation for any player with talent. He admired stars like Stan Musial and Willie...2025
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• Bus Clarkson: A little-known star from an alternate Milwaukee Brewers history

Milwaukee Journal-USA TODAY NETWORK Meet a Negro League All-Star who spent his twilight years in Milwaukee Milwaukee has had a major league baseball team for all but five years since 1953, the year the Braves left Boston for the Midwest. After a short gap from 1965-69, the Seattle Pilots moved to town in 1970, became the Brewers, and the rest is history. However, 1970 was not the first sea...2025
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• Remembering the career of Bobby Shantz
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• You're not working? I'm not working

This has been a weird holiday week as far as working my job.In general, holidays don't mean much in the journalism world, the news doesn't stop and newspapers come out every day (mostly). But my paper has always been good about holidays and I often am able to take some time off.Not this year. I worked on Christmas. Not unusual but not ritual either. I also worked on New Year's Day. Both of t...2025
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• Being thankful for the Braves and life in 2023

It was historic and euphoric but also disappointing. It was 2023. | Photo by Todd Kirkland/MLB Photos via Getty Images It’s time again to appreciate the things in life and baseball that happened this year and be thankful for the good times we had. Hello again, everybody. Here we are at that time of year again. It’s time for Thanksgiving and the holidays and lamenting how fast this year’s g...2023
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• Charting Ben Simmons’ summertime sadness through Instagram

Revisiting Ben Simmons’ summer adventures on the brink of a critical season with the Nets. Early in his Great American Novel about self-delusion and the noble, impossible reclamation of the past, the desire to write our own alternate histories, ones in which life proceeded the way we thought it should have, rather than as it did, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s narrator, Nick Carraway — a one time Long Isla...2023
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• Wrigley Field historical sleuthing: Nat King Cole and Jackie Robinson
Philip Harrington This photo shows two Black icons at the North Side ballyard. But when? The photo above shows Brooklyn Dodgers great Jackie Robinson meeting with famed singer Nat King Cole at Wrigley Field. The information I found said this photo was taken in 1954. Further research showed that it was part of an article in Look Magazine by George B. Leonard titled “The Melancholy Monarch.”...2022
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• Brewers' David Denson Hopes Coming Out Paves Way to Achieving MLB Dream
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: Star-Power, Rebuilt Rosters Make NL West Must-See TV
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"The Department of Defense deleted a story on its website that highlighted Jackie Robinson's military service, with the original URL redirecting to one that added the letters "dei" in front of "sports-heroes."

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"The burned remnants of a Jackie Robinson statue that was stolen last week were found Tuesday."

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"This isn’t just an old-timey scorebug filter with some former players, but a series of playable documentaries featuring eight legendary players who dominated baseball in an era before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier."

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"Jackie Robinson Day: Canó, Lindor and other MLB players pay tribute to baseball legend on historic anniversary"

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"Jackie Robinson featured on collector's edition cover of MLB The Show 21"

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"Jim Harbaugh praises Colin Kaepernick, compares efforts to Muhammad Ali and Jackie Robinson"

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"The Rangers will honor the retired numbers of Adrian Beltre, Pudge Rodriguez, Michael Young, Johnny Oates, Nolan Ryan and Jackie Robinson with the outfield dimensions and markers at new Globe Life Field."

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"Gibson was called 'the Jackie Robinson of tennis' by Billie Jean King"

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""It is a game and it is celebration, but there is a direct line between Jackie Robinson and me standing here."

2016
"Kiké Hernandez homered twice and doubled while driving in four runs for the Dodgers off San Francisco's Madison Bumgarner, who lost the latest showdown with Clayton Kershaw, 7-3, on Jackie Robinson Day on Friday at Dodger Stadium."

2015
"The Dodgers roughed up Seattle starting pitcher Taijuan Walker for five runs in four innings and ran their win streak to four games with a 5-2 victory in the 2015 Civil Rights Game on Jackie Robinson Night at Dodger Stadium."

2014
"Chicago welcomed back the Jackie Robinson West Little League team, starting with a homey neighborhood celebration in the South Side, a departure for an area known for gun violence."

• Braves set their sights on the Blue Jays in Toronto - and here’s how you can watch
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• This Day in Braves History: Braves snap nine-game losing streak

Photo by Scott Cunningham/Getty Images The Braves finally pick up a win after the great collapse of 2011 that derailed their season. Braves Franchise History 2012: The Atlanta Braves win their first game this season, 6-4, over the Houston Astros, as Chipper Jones homers in his first game of the year. The win snaps a nine-game losing streak dating back to the Braves’ collapse at the end of ...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, April 9
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• Outside The Confines: Damn the torpedoes
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• Today in White Sox History: March 18

The player who would set the first seasons-played mark for the White Sox, Billy Sullivan, jumped to the American League (and the South Side) on this day, 124 years ago. | Chicago History Museum/Getty Images Another great player is snatched from the National League 1901 After two seasons with Boston in the National League and ready to take on a bigger role at catcher, Billy Sullivan joined ...2025
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• This Day in Braves History: Braves trade Joe Torre to the Cardinals in exchange for Orlando Cepeda

Braves Franchise History 1969 - The Atlanta Braves trade Joe Torre to the St. Louis Cardinals in exchange for Orlando Cepeda. The trade was the result of a salary dispute between Torre and Braves GM Paul Richards who was angry at Torre for his role as a union official. MLB History 1911 - Plumbers at work on the drain pipes at Washington’s Griffith Stadium inadvertently start a fire that burns dow...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, March 17
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• Baseball history unpacked, March 10
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• This Day in MLB History: Bud Selig announces MLB will celebrate “Jackie Robinson Day” every April 15th

Photo by Brad Mangin/MLB Photos via Getty Images MLB History 1884 - National League owners agree to provide two separate team benches to minimize fraternizing among opposing players during games. 1886 - The National league adopts the stolen base and the four foot by seven foot pitcher’s box. The NL also retains seven balls for a walk and rejects a rule that would award a batter first base...2025
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• This Day in Braves History: February 28th
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• This Day in Braves History: Braves trade Joe Torre to the Cardinals in exchange for Orlando Cepeda
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• It's easier to reach the top

Today is the fifth anniversary of the Dodgers' trade with the Red Sox in which the Dodgers gained Mookie Betts for a bag of beans. It's not a coincidence that at around the same time, Betts moved into the top 10 in terms of the number of cards in my collection. Two World Series wins with one of MLB's flagship teams and being a hell of a bowler will do tat. He's now at No. 10, according...2025
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• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta trades for Justin Upton

Photo by Pouya Dianat/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Upton here, Upton here Braves Franchise History 2013: The brothers Upton will play together with the Atlanta Braves next season after Arizona trades Justin to Atlanta as part of a seven-player deal, allowing him to join his older brother B.J., whom the Braves signed as a free agent earlier this off-season. Accompanying Justin is 3B Chris J...2025
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• Browns history: Legend John Wooten talks civil rights, Jim Brown, how the NFL has changed and so much more

Photo by: 2014 Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images 25 questions with Jim Brown’s roommate who had a great career on his own The first day of January is a day to reflect. New Year’s resolutions are made in order to change bad habits and improve a person’s life for the better. New Year’s Day has in the past been the date designated for the game of college football to crown its seas...2025
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• Retire Jim Brown’s number NFL-wide? Bill Belichick supports John Wooten’s idea; Wooten shares more with DBN

The gesture would symbolize just how remarkable JB was The passing of Jim Brown in May of last year was indeed a sad day for every diehard NFL fan. It also provided an opportunity. The National Football League (NFL) can now memorialize arguably one of the greatest players ever to set foot on any NFL football field. The NFL should retire Brown’s #32 jersey – leaguewide. Yes, every team. This was...2024
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• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta scores 29 runs in win over Marlins

Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1914: - Boston Braves’ hurler George Davis no-hits the Phillies, 7-0. 1935: With the Cardinals’ Phil Collins losing to Curt Davis and the Phils, 4-3, the Cubs extend their winning streak to six straight games. Chicago tops the Braves, 5-1 and 2-1, behind the pitching of Larry French and Tex Carleton, cutting the Cardinal lead t...2024
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• This Day in Braves History: Hank Aaron collects his first Major League hit

Braves Franchise History 1947 - Jackie Robinson makes his major league debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Boston Braves. Robinson goes hitless, but scores the deciding run in a 5-3 win at Ebbets Field. 1954 - Hank Aaron collects the first hit of his major league career as he goes 2-for-5 to help the Milwaukee Braves to a 7-6 win over the Cardinals. 1977 - Hank Aaron becomes the first pla...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ too many free passes

Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. The Bryce was right, Seattle’s bullpen held, and the Cubs fell. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overhe...2024
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• Being thankful for the Braves and life in 2023
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• 2023-24 MLB/White Sox/South Side Sox offseason calendar

Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Our annual guide to everything happening on site and in White Sox baseball, from now till Opening Day While baseball’s offseason deprives us of games, it doesn’t mean there’s not a lot of action over the winter. The conclusion of the World Series on November 1 ended the baseball season, and the annual stampede of players to free agency is underway. Add to that,...2023
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• Jackie Robinson at UCLA: Four sport star, notable moments
Before he broke barriers and records with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson was a four-sport phenom at UCLA, starring in football, basketball, track and field, and of course, baseball....2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, April 9
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• Outside The Confines: Damn the torpedoes
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• This Day in MLB History: Bud Selig announces MLB will celebrate “Jackie Robinson Day” every April 15th
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• Today in White Sox History: March 1

On this day 124 years ago, Clark Griffith (seated next to Charles Comiskey, top hat) jumped crosstown to the White Sox. Under Griffith’s guidance as player-manager 1901 White Sox club won the first MLB AL pennant. A massive crosstown heist helps ensure a pennant 1901 In a monumental move as the White Sox entered the major leagues for the first time, the club snatched pitcher Clark Griffith...2025
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• Penguins Update: Is Kyle Dubas the New Branch Rickey?
After a near four-decade run as one of the most successful franchises in the National League, the Pittsburgh Pirates began to slip following World War II. Seeking to restore his team’s sagging fortunes, new majority owner John Galbreath replaced general manager Roy Hamey (who would later construct World Series winners with the Yankees) with legendary baseball executive Branch Rickey on November 1,...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, February 14
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• Today in White Sox History: February 11

On this day 120 years ago, son of a legend and future Sox pitcher Ed Arthur Walsh (center) was born. | George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images Son of a legend, lost too soon, is born 1905 Future White Sox pitcher Ed Arthur Walsh was born in Meriden, Conn. His father, Ed, was preparing for his third season with the White Sox, and first as a primary starter. The younger Walsh would pitch for ...2025
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• The 2025 Cubs by the numbers

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images A complete numerical list of this year’s Cubs as they get ready for this year’s Spring Training. As I do here every spring, today I present to you a full numerical roster of all the players and coaches in Cubs spring camp. Also included are the Cubs’ retired numbers, so you can see the full numerical progression. There are 60 players in camp,...2025
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• Hernandez, Kershaw get best of MadBum
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• Homers, shaky D sink MadBum, Giants in LA
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• Hernandez's huge day sinks MadBum, Giants
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• Dodgers celebrate Jackie Robinson Day by sweeping Seattle
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• Yanks lose lead in series finale vs. O's
Chris Davis drove in three runs, including a two-run double during a five-run sixth, and Delmon Young broke a 3-3 tie in that inning with a pinch-hit RBI single in the Orioles' 7-5 win over the Yankees over Jackie Robinson Day Wednesday....2015
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• Jackie Robinson Day: Canó, Lindor and other MLB players pay tribute to baseball legend on historic anniversary
Friday marks the 75th anniversary of Robinson's historic appearance...2022
• Dodger Stadium to have Jackie Robinson statue
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• Jim Harbaugh praises Colin Kaepernick, compares efforts to Muhammad Ali and Jackie Robinson
The Michigan coach voiced his support for his former 49ers quarterback during a podcast appearance...2020
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• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta releases Ron Gant

Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1953 - The Milwaukee Braves became the first franchise to move since 1903 when the Baltimore Orioles became the New York Highlanders. The Braves had been in Boston for 77 years. In a related move, the minor league Milwaukee Brewers move to Toledo, Ohio where they will become the Toledo Mud Hens. 1994 - The Atlanta Braves relea...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: March 18
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• This Day in Braves History: Braves trade Joe Torre to the Cardinals in exchange for Orlando Cepeda
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• Baseball history unpacked, March 17
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• Baseball history unpacked, March 10
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• This Day in MLB History: Bud Selig announces MLB will celebrate “Jackie Robinson Day” every April 15th
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• Today in White Sox History: March 1
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• This Day in Braves History: February 28th
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• Announcement! Black Baseball in Alabama 1870-1950: The Rough Diamonds of Dixie
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• Baseball history unpacked, January 31
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• Bus Clarkson: A little-known star from an alternate Milwaukee Brewers history
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 7, 2025

Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images Is the off-season 90 percent complete now? Craig Brown reacts to the Cavan Biggio signing. Biggio’s strength as a hitter comes from his strike-zone recognition. In his career, he’s chased on pitches outside of the zone under 16 percent of the time. That’s an elite chase rate. The league average is generally around 28 percent. It’s a fantastic foundation f...2025
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• This Day in Braves History: Braves take 3-1 series lead over Astros in World Series

Photo by Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images Braves Franchise History 2021 - The Braves take a 3-1 lead in the series with a 3-2 win at Truist Park in Game 4. Dylan Lee begins the game as the opener but is quickly replaced by Kyle Wright who escapes a bases loaded jam in the first inning with just one run scored. Atlanta cut Houston’s lead to 2-1 in the sixth and then got back-...2024
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• Jackie Robinson statue destroyed: Wichita police make first arrest, believe crime wasn't hate-motivated

Police believe the perpetrators stole the statue to sell its common metal for scrap...2024
• This Day in Braves History: Homers by Jorge Soler and Dansby Swanson lead Atlanta to 3-1 lead over Houston

Photo by Michael Zarrilli/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 2021 - The Braves take a 3-1 lead in the series with a 3-2 win at Truist Park in Game 4. Dylan Lee begins the game as the opener but is quickly replaced by Kyle Wright who escapes a bases loaded jam in the first inning with just one run scored. Atlanta cut Houston’s lead to 2-1 in the sixth and then got back-to-back home runs ...2023
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• Charting Ben Simmons’ summertime sadness through Instagram
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• The two John Donaldsons

Both played in KC Recently, my wife, daughter and I were on a short road trip and drove through Lehigh, Iowa, a small burg of 395 people located in central Iowa which was founded in 1881. Lehigh sits in a steep valley of the Des Moines river which cuts through the center of what is left of the town. The east part of Lehigh has 10-15 houses plus the local bar and grill. Most residents live in west ...2023
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• Steph Curry joins the ‘Mt. Rushmore’ of 2-sport athletes with American Century Championship victory
STATELINE, Nev. — Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors celebrates after winning the championship on Day Three of the 2023 American Century Championship at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course on July 16, 2023. | Photo by Isaiah Vazquez/Getty Images Curry won the American Century Championship in dramatic fashion, thus cementing himself among other legends who thrived playing two sports. Steph C...2023
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