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• Saturday UpdateMy college roommates and I are on a whirlwind tour of Missouri. Here we are at the Negro League Baseball Museum: And in the stands at Kauffman Stadium: It’s always a great day. The NLMB will be the best ten dollar baseball experience you can find. Kauffman Stadium is a gem, I’m sorry the Royals […]...2025Read about Kauffman Stadium rumors
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• Baseball history unpacked, July 7Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content. Cubs sweep a DH and have an incredible comeback; Tom Browning takes the long view, and other stories. Happy birthday to Billy Herman*! 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 lore and various narrat...2025Check it out Rabbit Maranville news
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 30, 2025Photo by Jay Biggerstaff/Getty Images More losses at home. The Royals lose another home series. “We’re in a rut,” Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. “Every team goes through something like this. “This is prolonged for us, and we are not hiding from that. We need ... to stack wins together. And that’s why it’s disappointing today that we didn’t.” Anne Rogers writes about the struggles pla...2025Check it out Matt Quatraro rumors
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 23, 2025Photo by Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images Jac Caglianone learns how to play the outfield! Jac Caglianone made a sensational home run-robbing catch on Sunday. Tracking the ball was the easy part. It was late in the afternoon, so the sun wasn’t much of a factor. The challenge for Caglianone — a rookie in both the literal sense and in the sense that he has played the outfield only since late A...2025See also Richard Rodriguez news today
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• Jackie Robinson, Minnie Miñoso murals defaced in MiamiAn unidentified Downtown Development Authority worker takes a close look at the mural of Jackie Robinson, the first black to integrate Major League Baseball in 1947, after it was defaced by someone with a swastika and Jim Crow-era racial epithet on June 3, 2025, at Dorsey Park in Miami. | Carl Juste/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Local authorities are treating the offen...2025Click for news about Jackie Robinson news today
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• Book Talk, My Misconceptions!A year ago I presented my research on the origins of Black baseball in the area to the 19th Annual Southern Association Baseball Research Conference. Twelve months later that work has become the book "Black Baseball in Alabama 1870-1950: The Rough Diamonds of Dixie", the first ever published on that topic as far as I am aware of, a trend that gives me immense pride to buck. That no one had t...2025
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Negro League injury and suspension
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• Baseball history unpacked, July 7
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 30, 2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 23, 2025
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• This Day in Braves History; Braves trade Deion Sanders to the RedsPhoto by George Gojkovich/Getty Images Prime Time gets moved from Atlanta to Cincinnati Braves Franchise History 1916: Christy Mathewson pitches a 3-0 shutout over the Boston Braves, leading the New York Giants to their 17th consecutive victory, all on the road. In spite of their impressive winning streak, the Giants will finish second to the Brooklyn Robins in the National League pennant...2025Check it out George Gojkovich injury status
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• MLB The Show 25 review - It’s good!Elly De La Cruz #44 of the Cincinnati Reds applies the late tag as Gunnar Henderson #2 of the Baltimore Orioles slides safely into third base | Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images There are multiple fan-requested upgrades to drastically improve the experience in Sony San Diego studio’s annual release. Listen, I was always going to buy this game. I was always going to buy the Digital Deluxe vers...2025Continue with Cincinnati Reds injury
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• It’s time to honor George SpriggsThe former Royals player was once a Negro Leaguer. Now that Cedric Tallis, the Royals' first general manager, and architect of their early success has been inducted into the Royals Hall of Fame, I need to find a new windmill to tilt at. My other pet project over the years has been for the club to bestow some type of recognition on George Spriggs. Spriggs’ contract was purchased by Tallis from the ...2025Check it out Cedric Tallis injury status
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• Baseball history unpacked, March 3Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Peter Ueberroth becomes Commissioner, Jack Brickhouse goes under the knife, and other stories. 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 lore and various narratives to...2025Check it out Jack Brickhouse injury update
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• Baseball history unpacked, February 19Miguel Batista pitches for the Expos vs. the Cubs at Wrigley Field, Opening Day 1998 | Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday to Miguel Batista. 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...2025Continue with Wrigley Field injury update
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• Bus Clarkson: A little-known star from an alternate Milwaukee Brewers historyMilwaukee 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...2025See also Milwaukee Brewers
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 6, 2025Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Be safe out there! MLB.com lists one question each team must answer before spring training. Royals: Have they done enough to upgrade the lineup?The Royals were aggressive early on this offseason with their top priority of finding a leadoff hitter to help deepen the lineup and get someone on base for Bobby Witt Jr. Their answer is Jonathan India, whom the ...2025See also Jamie Squire availability report
Negro League lifestyle
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• A look back on Harry SimpsonHave Suitcase, will travel I don’t think there’s much debate that baseball players today are better than they were 50 or 100 years ago. For one thing, MLB is now integrated. It’s truly an international sport. The second thing is players at nearly all levels now play and work out year-round. With AAU and traveling teams, pre-teen ballplayers probably play more games in a summer than I played in the...2024Continue with Kansas City Athletics
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• Who is John Sherman?Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Like the guy next door, except richer In the past, I’ve written stories critical of how the Royals organization has handled their downtown stadium negotiations. And while I don’t back away from the ham-handed way that process has been going, I did start to wonder if perhaps I have gotten the wrong idea about Royals owner John Sherman. After all, I’ve never m...2024See more John Sherman
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• Baseball history unpacked, July 7
Tom Browning had a good day | Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Tom Browning had a very good day on a day full of legends. 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 lore...2023See also Baltimore Orioles
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• Can't Change Even If I Wanted To, Biscuits Find New HomesNOBODY KNOWS..People ask what I have been up to and its easier to answer "same old same old" than to explain how I am mapping each known location for organized baseball games in Montgomery pre-WW1. Hopefully soon I will have some exciting news on the history front, stay tuned! CANT CHANGE IF I WANTED TO I was hoping to revamp the blog but found that the blogspot tools have been adj...2023
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"Among the interviewees are Negro League players, who received a formal apology from Vincent, on behalf of MLB, in a ceremony in Cooperstown in 1991." - 2024
"In our spare time, we might visit the World War I museum, the Nelson Atkins or the Negro League Hall of Fame, or Worlds of Fun." - 2023
"Some of these charges can be leveled at MLB The Show 23, but not when it comes to the addition of its Negro League mode." - 2022
"MLB considering historic Negro League stadium for future Field of Dreams-style game, per report" - 2021
"Baseball Reference Adds Negro League Stats" - 2020
"The simulated competition will feature a Negro League team and an all-under 25 team" - 2018
"A Kickstarter campaign hopes to create a series of bobbleheads celebrating Negro League stars." - 2017
"Historic KC Negro League site nearly restored" - 2016
"The Brewers jumped on Gio Gonzalez for six runs in the first three innings Saturday, and the Nationals' comeback fell just short as Milwaukee handed Washington its seventh consecutive loss, 6-5, on Negro League Tribute Day at Miller Park." - 2015
"The Red Sox and Mariners paid tribute to Negro League players on Saturday night at Safeco Field, donning throwback uniforms for the Boston Royal Giants and Seattle Steelheads of 1946."
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Negro League trade rumors, contract, salary rumors
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• Baseball history unpacked, July 7
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 23, 2025
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• This Day in Braves History; Braves trade Deion Sanders to the Reds
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• MLB The Show 25 review - It’s good!
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• Today in White Sox History: March 18The 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 ...2025Click for news about White Sox salary
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• It’s time to honor George Spriggs
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• Today in White Sox History: March 8Longtime White Sox bullpen catcher Mark Salas celebrates his 64th birthday today. | Bruce Kluckhohn-Imagn Images Happy birthday to a bullpen catcher with a friendly smile 1942 Future White Sox MVP Dick Allen was born in Wampum, Pa. Allen set a franchise mark with 37 home runs in his 1972 MVP year, along with 113 RBIs. His 8.6 WAR in 1972 ranks second all-time among White Sox hitters (Eddi...2025See also White Sox trade rumors
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• Baseball history unpacked, March 3
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• Baseball history unpacked, February 19
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 14, 2025John Sleezer/Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Time to stretch! Jaylon Thompson reports on the pitchers and catchers in their first few days of camp. After helping the Royals return to the playoffs last season for the first time since 2015 — only to fall short in the American League Divisional Series against the New York Yankees — Perez wants to bring another champion...2025See more Jaylon Thompson contract
Negro League stats and results
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 23, 2025
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• Book Talk, My Misconceptions!
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• This Day in Braves History; Braves trade Deion Sanders to the Reds
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• 2001 Topps Chrome "Before There was Topps" refractorsY'all know I like refractors. Well, one niche that especially interests me are guys' 1st Refractor, specifically talking about old-timers who played before such parallels were a thing. And in poking around, I found this 10-card "Before There was Topps" insert set from 2001 Chrome that features the first refractor produced of several inner-circle HOFers, and so I went about completing it. Took...2025Read about Joe DiMaggio statistics
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• MLB The Show 25 review - It’s good!
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 28, 2025Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Will Zack Greinke get in the Hall of Fame? Trevor Powers at Pitcher’s List ranks Royals prospects for dynasty leagues with Blake Mitchell at #2. There were two sides to Mitchell’s first minor league season. On the good side, he showed the ability to tap into his power consistently in game. In just 111 games, he hit 18 home runs and 16 doubles. For such a you...2025See more articles Zack Greinke statistics
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• The case for each of the Classic Baseball Hall of Fame candidatesPhoto by Louis Requena/MLB via Getty Images Luis Tiant, Dick Allen and Tommy John are among eight players on this year’s Classic Era ballot. The Baseball Hall of Fame has had some form of “Veterans Committee” ballot in its induction process going all the way back to 1939. The committees have taken various forms over the years, but the most recent process breaks up potential candidates into...2024Check it out Louis Requena statistics
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• History: Cleveland and Pro FootballUS PRESSWIRE A city’s storied history with the sport of professional football The City of Cleveland has been a city of champions in many sports. In Major League Baseball, the Cleveland Indians have won two World Series titles (1920, 1948). Prior to the Indians, the Cleveland Spiders had a single title (1895). Meanwhile, the Negro League Cleveland Buckeyes began in 1942 and found success ...2024Click for news about Cleveland Indians stats
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• Outside The Confines: London CallingPhoto by Zac Goodwin/PA Images via Getty Images The Phillies and Mets played in London. Gambling is causing a safety problem for the players. And other news from around baseball. So they’re playing cricket on Long Island and baseball in London. What a world we live in. Before we get to the London Series, Bob Nightengale has a story about how MLB players are getting angry and threatening ...2024Read about Bob Nightengale scores
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• With Negro League stats, MLB links legends like never beforeIn baseball, numbers matter. Now they mean more than ever....2024
Negro League parents, kids, wife / husband, girlfriend / boyfriend
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• This Day in Braves History; Braves trade Deion Sanders to the Reds
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• It’s time to honor George Spriggs
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• Today in White Sox History: March 1On 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...2025Visit the page White Sox
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• Baseball history unpacked, February 19
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• Today in White Sox History: February 16Howie Judson was pretty upbeat in 1950, for a guy coming off of a 1-14 season. | Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images Author of a great turnaround season at the dawn of the 1950s is born 1924 Early on this day Frank Chance resigned as manager of the White Sox, having been stricken ill with pneumonia some time after accepting the helm during the 1924 Winter Meetings in Chicago the previous ...2025See more White Sox
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 14, 2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 13, 2025
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• Remembering the life of Fay VincentPhoto by Focus on Sport/Getty Images Baseball’s eighth commissioner . When I was aspiring to be a writer, I began keeping magazine and newspaper articles of stories I found of interest. Over the years I accumulated a pile of stories which soon found their way into alphabetized file folders. I now have a box of accumulated stories and two of my favorite files are titled: Baseball and Good w...2025Click for news about Fay Vincent
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• Former MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent has diedGetty Images His tenure was brief, but eventful. Former MLB Commissioner Francis T. “Fay” Vincent, who oversaw the sport in a tumultuous time from 1989 to 1992, died Saturday in Florida, aged 86. Vincent was a reluctant Commissioner. A deputy Commissioner under Bart Giamatti, he succeeded to the top job on Giamatti’s untimely death at age 50 in 1989. Very early in his tenure he had to navi...2025See more Fay Vincent
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• Baseball and the Great WarChristy Mathewson We shall not sleep, though poppies grow When I was a child we lived in Concordia, Kansas, and every November 11 the city would have a Veterans Day parade. In those days it was still called Armistice Day. This memory has always stuck with me for several reasons. There would be a football game that day which my father would take me to. Those were the first football games I ...2024See also Christy Mathewson
Top Negro League news
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• Brewers hold on, hand Nats 7th straight loss
2016Visit the page Gio Gonzalez
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• MLB considering historic Negro League stadium for future Field of Dreams-style game, per report
Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson, New Jersey is currently undergoing a massive restoration...2022
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• The Negro League mode in ‘MLB The Show 23’ is the greatest historical mode in sports game history
This absolutely rules. Sports games deservedly suffer the same criticism year-to-year. Often changes are only minor, it can feel like a $60 roster update, and development teams rarely have the time needed to actually overhaul the game. Some of these charges can be leveled at MLB The Show 23, but not when it comes to the addition of its Negro League mode. Never has a game so lovingly added a histo...2023Check it out Jackie Robinson
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• Hall of Fame baseball player Monte Irvin dies at 96
Former New York Giants and Chicago Cubs Hall of Fame outfielder Monte Irvin died Monday at his home in Houston, Texas.Irvin, who began his career in the Negro League in 1938, was one of the first African-American players to play in the majors. Irvin made the jump to the majors with the Giants, and over eight years was able to tally 99 home runs, 443 RBI's, and a batting average of .293.Irvin was k...2016Read about Chicago Cubs
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• Monte Irvin, MLB Hall of Fame OF, Dies at Age 96
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• MLB The Show to feature Negro League greatsFor the first time, MLB The Show will insert some of the Negro Leagues' greatest players -- from Satchel Paige to Jackie Robinson -- into the 2023 edition of the game as playable characters....2023See more Satchel Paige
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• Who is John Sherman?
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• Royals at a “crossroads” as they propose downtown ballpark in Crossroads DistrictThe Royals unveil renderings of their ballpark vision. “Today we’re at a crossroads. In fact, we’re here to talk about the Crossroads,” began Royals owner John Sherman as he unveiled renderings for a proposed ballpark in the north Crossroads at the site of the former Kansas City Star printing press. The proposed development would occupy 17.3 acres and consist of a ballpark with just over 34,000 se...2024Click for news about John Sherman
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Negro League schedule, game
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• Baseball history unpacked, July 7
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 30, 2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 23, 2025
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• Book Talk, My Misconceptions!
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• This Day in Braves History; Braves trade Deion Sanders to the Reds
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• 2001 Topps Chrome "Before There was Topps" refractors
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• MLB The Show 25 review - It’s good!
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• Today in White Sox History: March 18
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• It’s time to honor George Spriggs
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• Today in White Sox History: March 8
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Negro League rumors, scandals
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• Jackie Robinson, Minnie Miñoso murals defaced in Miami
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• Announcement! Black Baseball in Alabama 1870-1950: The Rough Diamonds of DixieWhile 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...2025See more articles Jackie Robinson rumors
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• Remembering the life of Fay Vincent
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• Bus Clarkson: A little-known star from an alternate Milwaukee Brewers history
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• Outside The Confines: Don’t bet on itRay Acevedo-USA TODAY Sports MLB announces suspensions in a major gambling scandal. A look ahead to the trade deadline. And other news from around baseball. Good morning. If you’re going to get caught doing something stupid that’s going to get you into a lot of trouble, don’t do it for some spare change. Al has already written on this story, but Padres infielder Tucupita Marcano was per...2024See more articles Tucupita Marcano
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• It’s time for the Royals to honor George SpriggsOur only alumni The Royals have made some significant moves this spring, inducting Bo Jackson, John Schuerholz and Cedric Tallis into the team’s Hall of Fame. Now that Tallis has been inducted, I’ll need to find a new windmill to tilt at. Bringing attention to the Tallis oversight has been one of my main passions the last five years and I’m very happy for the Tallis family to see this long-overdu...2024See more John Schuerholz scandals
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• The two John DonaldsonsBoth 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 ...2023Check it out Des Moines rumors
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• Gamethread: White Sox at Mariners
It’s a special day in Seattle. | Alika Jenner/Getty Images Lucas Giolito is on for Saturday’s tilt with the M’s The White Sox (30-41) look to bounce back from last night’s disappointing loss against the Mariners (34-34) — which seems to be a habit at this point. The good news is we have an exciting pitching matchup on the mound this afternoon, with Lucas Giolito facing off against Logan G...2023See more White Sox rumors
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• History in a boxIf I ever start to think that the blogs aren't the way they used to be, and isn't that a shame and all that, Rod from Padrographs will set me straight.He's done it so many times. He did it just four months ago. And he's doing it now.Rod is responsible for so much goodness in my card room, probably more visible examples than anyone else. Let's take a look around:The fantastic Ron Cey poster R...2023Visit the page Sandy Koufax gossip
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• The Buttery Buzzsaw, Montgomery Baseball History, Numbers GameA flaky, home baked, steaming hot buttery buzzsaw. That's what this Montgomery Biscuits club has been so far, chalking up victory after victory and able to dismantle Southern League opponents with five different weapons: hitting, pitching, defense, mojo and swagger.Mojo and swagger, not technically a metric for analytics but certainly part of the eye test and this Biscuits squad is leading t...2023Continue with Montgomery Biscuits whispers
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