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  • This Day in MLB History: February 9
    • This Day in MLB History: February 9
    Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images An incredibly busy day that somehow doesn’t have much to do with the Atlanta Braves organization. Braves Franchise History 1916: The National League votes down a proposal by the Giants, Braves, and Cubs to increase club player limit from 21 to 22. (The Reds want a decrease to 20.) MLB History 1884: The Cincinnati Outlaw Reds’ home field is...2025
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  • The Next Brewers Hall of Famers (and a Hall-of-Fame Rabbit Hole)
    • The Next Brewers Hall of Famers (and a Hall-of-Fame Rabbit Hole)
    Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images I have thoughts. On Sunday, former Brewer All-Star Dave Parker was one of two players (along with Dick Allen) inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, via the Era Committee’s Classic Baseball Era (formerly known as the Veterans Committee) ballot. I’m a Hall junkie, so I had a million thoughts, some of which I will share. But the thought that will guide me: who...2024
  • The case for each of the Classic Baseball Hall of Fame candidates
    • The case for each of the Classic Baseball Hall of Fame candidates
    Photo 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...2024
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  • New book features lesser-known World Series stories, including those featuring the Royals
    • New book features lesser-known World Series stories, including those featuring the Royals
    SetNumber: X32251 TK6 R13 F18 “Shadows of Glory: Memorable and Offbeat World Series Stories” offers stories you may not know about the Fall Classic. For all of the great, wonderful, and well-known stories about the World Series, there are just as many great, wonderful, and lesser-known stories from the Fall Classic, stories of which even diehard baseball fans are unaware. During the playof...2024
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  • Today in White Sox History: October 4
    • Today in White Sox History: October 4
    On this day 44 years ago, Minnie Miñoso became the second five-decade player in MLB history. | Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images Minnie plays in his fifth decade 1919 He may not have “thrown” this game, but Eddie Cicotte’s error on a fifth-inning throw to first base opened the door to two Cincinnati runs, as the Reds took a commanding, 3-1 lead in the World Series. Cicotte went the di...2024
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  • A ballpark once stood here
    • A ballpark once stood here
    Memories of 22nd and Brooklyn When I was a child, we stopped in Kansas City and visited Municipal Stadium. We parked in a lot on 22nd Street and my father and I walked across the street to the stadium. It was a late morning and surprisingly, we were able to gain access to the stadium. We walked up a ramp and through a tunnel that overlooked the field. As we emerged from the tunnel, my senses were ...2024

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  • • This Day in MLB History: February 9
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  • This Day in Braves History: Atlanta trades Dale Murphy to Phillies
    • This Day in Braves History: Atlanta trades Dale Murphy to Phillies
    Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1973 - The Braves hang on for a 5-4 win over the Padres despite a pinch-hit home run by Dave Winfield. Winfield won’t have another pinch-hit homer until September 29, 1990. 1990 - The Braves trade Dale Murphy and Tommy Greene to the Phillies in exchange for Jeff Parrett, Jim Vatcher and Victor Rosario. Murphy was hitting .232/...2024
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  • Baseball history unpacked, July 15
    • Baseball history unpacked, July 15
    Jim Thorpe | Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Mordecai Brown, Alvin Dark, Fergie Jenkins, Nolan Ryan’s arm, Albert Belle’s bat, Thorpe’s Decathlon win, and other tales of whoa. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, ...2024
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  • Jesse Chavez, All-Star? Maybe, just maybe.
    • Jesse Chavez, All-Star? Maybe, just maybe.
    Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images For the second consecutive season, the elder statesman of the Braves bullpen has pitched so well that possibility of his selection to the All-Star game has begun to gain momentum. Twelve months ago, Jesse Chavez’s season was put on hold for three months after he took a line-drive to his leg. It couldn’t have been more inopportune t...2024
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  • Royals Rumblings - News for June 20, 2024
    • Royals Rumblings - News for June 20, 2024
    That was a fun moment between Butler and Gordon | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Thursdays are the new Friday! Ed note: Yes, I know, it’s not Friday. But when we get down to OT, this will make sense. Greg was gracious enough to switch when I realized the game today fit with the topic. For those of you who skip Friday Rumblings... shame on you. Or not. But this is the wild and bori...2024
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  • Baseball history unpacked, June 10
    • Baseball history unpacked, June 10
    Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. The return of Cyle and many other tales on a busy day in Cubs history. 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 va...2024
  • Baseball history unpacked, May 31
    • Baseball history unpacked, May 31
    Ila Borders throws one out. | Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. The first rainout, the best record in baseball, 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 l...2024
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  • MLB is adding Negro League statistics to its official record
    • MLB is adding Negro League statistics to its official record
    The 1942 Homestead Grays, one of the greatest Negro League teams | Getty Images This is a wonderful thing. All of us know about the discrimination Black baseball players faced from the Major Leagues for decades, until Jackie Robinson broke the “color line” in 1947. Black players had their own leagues for those decades, now collectively known as the Negro Leagues. Many of those players have...2024
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  • Game Report for 19th Annual SAC Baseball Research Conference, TWIMBH Greatness!!
    • Game Report for 19th Annual SAC Baseball Research Conference, TWIMBH Greatness!!
     The much-anticipated annual gathering of baseball researchers at Montgomery arrived on Saturday, hosted at the Farley Auditorium at the Alabama Dept. of Archives and History. A community outreach by the Rickwood Field SABR chapter, along with the Montgomery Biscuits and their owner Lou DiBella, it marks the first time in the 21st century that Montgomery baseball history has been given the fu...2024

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  • 2024 Cleveland National Show Report
    • 2024 Cleveland National Show Report
    The National Sports Collectors Convention returned to Cleveland's I-X Center for 2024 and I spent five days there, 80% shopping, 10% hobnobbing, and 10% finding bathrooms without lines. Let's run through this year's experience and what to know should NSCC return here in future years.Facility: The I-X Center! Danger, there be dragons!NSCC last used this facility in 2018 when it still featured a fer...2024
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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...2023
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  • The 1975 Topps countdown, worst to best (No. 580-561)
    • The 1975 Topps countdown, worst to best (No. 580-561)
     One thing that I know I will always have with the 1975 Topps set is a topic for this blog.While I've run out of things to write about for some sets (or just plain have nothing to say period), that will not happen with '75 Topps, somewhat amazingly since the set is nearly 50 years old, and I did an entire blog on the set that finished -- urp -- almost 12 years ago. In fact, aside from th...2023
  • • Why Stop at One: Cubs' Near-Future Window to World Series Riches Wide Open
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  • • Scott Miller's Starting 9: As Mets and Nationals Race, 23 May Be Lucky Number
    2016
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Timeline

  • 2025
    "” 1961: Willie Mays agrees to an $85,000 contract which is currently the biggest in Major League Baseball 1971: Satchel Paige is nominated for the Hall of Fame by the Special Committee on the Negro Leagues."

  • 2024
    "Veeck would go on to sign several Negro League stars such as Satchel Paige, Minnie Minoso and Luke Easter."

  • 2023
    "The game-mode begins, naturally, with Satchel Paige."

  • 2022
    "It's time for Satchel Paige Day in Major League Baseball"

  • 2021
    "Simeon Woods Richardson Channels Satchel Paige"

  • 2020
    "The Negro Leagues had all-time greats like Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige and Oscar Charleston"

  • 2017
    "It's time for Satchel Paige Day in MLB"

  • 2016
    "Larry Doby and Satchel Paige were the first black players to be part of a major league championship."

  • 2015
    "  There was also a Negro Leagues category, which included Cool Papa Bell, Josh Gibson, Buck O'Neil and Satchel Paige, to go along with a pioneers category highlighting some of the game's earliest stars, like Walter Johnson, Nap Lajoie, Christy Mathewson and Cy Young."

  • 2014
    "It might be a good idea for the Cardinals, who lead the National League Central, and the Giants, who hold the NL's Number 1 Wild Card spot, to channel Satchel Paige, the legendary pitcher who famously advised, "Don't look back."

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  • • The Next Brewers Hall of Famers (and a Hall-of-Fame Rabbit Hole)
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  • • The case for each of the Classic Baseball Hall of Fame candidates
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  • • New book features lesser-known World Series stories, including those featuring the Royals
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  • • 2024 Cleveland National Show Report
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  • • This Day in Braves History: Atlanta trades Dale Murphy to Phillies
    2024
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  • Today in White Sox History: July 22
    • Today in White Sox History: July 22
    Satchel Paige beat Bill Veeck into the Hall of Fame, but on this day 33 years ago, our beloved owner got in. Bill Veeck gets baseball’s highest honor 1928 Hall-of-Famer Red Faber could do it all — and on occasion, he could hit. Up to bat in the top of the eighth at Yankee Stadium, with two outs and runners at second and third and the game tied, 4-4, Faber was down two strikes. The righty F...2024
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  • • Baseball history unpacked, July 15
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  • There will never be another Bo Jackson
    • There will never be another Bo Jackson
    Photo by Ron Vesely/Getty Images The star goes into the Royals Hall of Fame this weekend. Baseball history has long been subject to folklore and exaggeration. Did Mickey Mantle actually hit a ball 600 feet in Washington DC? (Probably not) Did Babe Ruth call his shot in the 1932 World Series? (maybe?) Did Satchel Paige really intentionally walk the bases loaded so he could face Josh Gibson ...2024
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  • • Jesse Chavez, All-Star? Maybe, just maybe.
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  • • Royals Rumblings - News for June 20, 2024
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  • • A ballpark once stood here
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  • Today in White Sox History: August 20
    • Today in White Sox History: August 20
    On this day 34 years ago, the White Sox surprised Harold Baines by retiring his No. 3. The final No. 3 in team history says goodbye ... at least until he came back again, and again, and again 1915 The White Sox acquired Shoeless Joe Jackson from Cleveland for $31,500 (almost a million today) along with pitcher Ed Klepfer, outfielder Braggo Roth and a player to be named later. Klepfer had s...2024
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  • • 2024 Cleveland National Show Report
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  • Outside The Confines: The Rickwood Field game brings history to the spotlight
    • Outside The Confines: The Rickwood Field game brings history to the spotlight
    Photo by Russell Kilgore Jr./MLB Photos via Getty Images Baseball remembers Willie Mays and other Negro League legends. The two big stories of the latter half of the week go hand in hand, with the Rickwood Field game happening on Thursday, just after the passing of the iconic Willie Mays late Tuesday. The memory of Mays and also remembering Negro Leagues legends of the past is a huge part ...2024
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  • • Jesse Chavez, All-Star? Maybe, just maybe.
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  • • Royals Rumblings - News for June 20, 2024
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  • MLB records change as Negro League stats are integrated, but it’s a complicated shift
    • MLB records change as Negro League stats are integrated, but it’s a complicated shift
    Set Number: X163234 TK1 This is progress, but stat integration isn’t an excuse to whitewash history. As of Wednesday, May 29 there’s a new all-time leader in MLB batting average. Josh Gibson, arguably the greatest player in the history of the Negro League, now tops the list with a career .372. It’s part of Major League Baseball’s initiative to integrate their statistical databases to inclu...2024
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  • • Game Report for 19th Annual SAC Baseball Research Conference, TWIMBH Greatness!!
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  • The NBC World Series
    • The NBC World Series
    Top flight baseball in Wichita. From July 25 to August 3, the National Baseball Congress will hold and celebrate the 90th anniversary of the NBC World Series. The World Series used to be held at the old Lawrence-Dumont Stadium in Wichita, Kansas, and will feature the very best amateur teams from locales across this great country of ours. The NBC World Series is now played at Eck Stadium on the cam...2024
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  • It’s time for the Royals to honor George Spriggs
    • It’s time for the Royals to honor George Spriggs
    Our 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...2024

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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...2023
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  • MLB The Show to feature Negro League greats
    • MLB The Show to feature Negro League greats
    For 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....2023
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  • • MLB Reveals 'Franchise Four,' Top Players in Every Team's History
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  • • Cleveland Indians in 1948: A Story of Integration
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  • • Ted Williams 'Would Have Loved' David Ortiz Hitting Home Run No. 521
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  • • This Day in Braves History: Atlanta acquires Matt Olson
    Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports Braves Franchise History 1954 - Hank Aaron makes his first spring training start for the Milwaukee Braves in an exhibition game against the Boston Red Sox. Aaron replaces the injured Bobby Thomson in the lineup and records three hits including a home run. 2022 - The Braves acquire Matt Olson from the Oakland Athletics in exchange for outfielder Cristian Pache,...2023
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  • • Scott Miller's Starting 9: As Mets and Nationals Race, 23 May Be Lucky Number
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  • • This Day in Braves History: Atlanta trades Dale Murphy to Phillies
    Photo by Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1973 - The Braves hang on for a 5-4 win over the Padres despite a pinch-hit home run by Dave Winfield. Winfield won’t have another pinch-hit homer until September 29, 1990. 1990 - The Braves trade Dale Murphy and Tommy Greene to the Phillies in exchange for Jeff Parrett, Jim Vatcher and Victor Rosario. Murphy was hit...2023
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  • • Today in White Sox History: October 4
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  • • A ballpark once stood here
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  • • 2024 Cleveland National Show Report
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  • • Baseball history unpacked, July 15
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  • • There will never be another Bo Jackson
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  • • Baseball history unpacked, May 31
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  • Our Team
    • Our Team
    The summer that changed baseball Baseball is one sport that has provided a plethora of excellent books. Some are all-time classics like The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn and The Glory of their Times by Lawrence Ritter. Another all-time favorite of mine is the John Updike essay called Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu. More recently, former Kansas City Star columnist Joe Posnanski has scored with The Soul of ...2023
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  • Today in White Sox History: August 20
    • Today in White Sox History: August 20
    It was a weak hit, but still one that stopped Bobby Jenks’ record-tying streak on this day, 16 years ago. | Chuck Rydlewski/WireImage Big “Days” for two legends — 60 years apart 1915 The White Sox acquired Shoeless Joe Jackson from Cleveland for $31,500 (almost a million today) along with pitcher Ed Klepfer, outfielder Braggo Roth and a player to be named later. Klepfer had seen scant tim...2023
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  • The two John Donaldsons
    • 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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