Branch Rickey: Utmost Loyalty or Vehement Dislike
I have been enjoying the fine bio “Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman by Lee Lowenfish. While doing so, an internal debate has erupted in my mind. The object of discussion is the polarized feelings of those from his baseball life. Certain members of the Baseball Hall of Fame, such as Rogers Hornsby, and Ralph […]
The National League Expansion of 1886
October 29, 2010 by Brendan Macgranachan · Leave a Comment
In January of 1886, the National League was still looking for the seventh and eighth members to fill their field of teams for the upcoming season. After the 1885 season, both the Buffalo Bisons and Providence Greys had been disbanded, and their players bought out by other National League clubs. On January 16th, a committee […]
Alabama, the Cradle of Baseball Greatness
December 12, 2009 by Arne Christensen · 3 Comments
A little while ago I started to realize that Alabama has produced some of the greatest players in baseball history. I remembered reading Bill James making a point somewhere in his Historical Baseball Abstract from the ’80s about sports players tending to come from poor areas. I thought about Willie Mays and Hank Aaron, and […]
