Negro Leagues DB Update: 1910 & 1911 Negro Leagues

May 4, 2012 by Gary Ashwill · Leave a Comment

This week we’ve added the 1910 and 1911 Negro leagues to the DB. This gives us the pleasure of presenting statistics for one of black baseball’s great teams, the Chicago Leland Giants of 1910. Led by Pete Hill and John Henry Lloyd, both in their prime, a 37-year-old Grant Johnson, and the brilliant pitching of […]

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Speaker Spoke Plenty Loud

January 13, 2011 by Sam Miller · Leave a Comment

Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle. All four men bring to mind ideals you want in an outfielder. How about Tris Speaker? Speaker joined Cobb and Ruth on the membership roll when the Hall of Fame opened in 1939, yet not much is said or written about him. Speaker didn’t have Ruth’s power […]

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