In Celebration of the Plantation Owners

December 6, 2010 by Jeff Katz · Leave a Comment

Back in the good ol’ days, when the working scum knew their places, the great barons of industry were legend. Carnegie, Ford – they made America, not the bohunks, Micks, Sheenys and coloreds who toiled in the factory. Right? That’s how it was written in all the textbooks. Baseball was like that too. The great […]

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This Week in Baseball: 1928

April 15, 2008 by Mike Lynch · Leave a Comment

This is part of a weekly series in which I describe what was happening in Major League Baseball each week of a randomly chosen year. This week’s article chronicles the goings on during the week of April 8-14, 1928.

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