A Best Of Collection of Favorite Obscure Baseball Players

March 27, 2012 by Arne Christensen · 5 Comments

A year ago I started a project on my blog of asking people to name their favorite obscure baseball figure from the past: not exclusively players, but anyone employed by the game. The volume of responses (many came from the now-defunct Baseball-Reference blog) surprised me, and led me to start the project up again this […]

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Remember the Northwest League Seattle Rainiers, 1972-1976?

August 31, 2010 by Arne Christensen · Leave a Comment

A couple months ago I saw a comment on a post I’d done about the infamousÂ Portland Mavericks. I came to learn that the commenter, Bruce Baskin, remembered the Mavs because he’d grown up cheering on the Seattle Rainiers, the Mavs’ counterpart in the Northwest League, playing from 1972 through 1976. Bruce acknowledged that “people didn’t […]

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