Ultimate Sacrifice Baseball Card Set
April 16, 2011 by Gary Bedingfield · 6 Comments
Of the 142 professional baseball players who lost their lives during World War II, I doubt any of them ever appeared on a baseball card. This got me thinking about how nice it would be to create cards for each of them and I have to admit I have taken my inspiration from Gary Cieradkowski’s […]
Another One Bites The Dust
November 11, 2010 by Doug Gladstone · Leave a Comment
I didn’t know the late William Lee “Bill” Jennings. Never met him, never had a chat with him, never even knew of him until recently, in fact. What little I do know about Mr. Jennings, who died at the age of 85 on October 20, 2010, is attributable to his passing being prominently mentioned on […]
All-Decade Single-Season Wins Above Replacement Team: A.L. 1901-1909
July 11, 2010 by Mike Lynch · 1 Comment
On July 1 I unveiled the All-Decade Single-Season Wins Above Replacement National League squad for the first decade of the modern era, so now it’s time to unveil the junior circuit’s team. Below is a list of the best seasons posted by American Leaguers at each position during the period from 1901-1909 based on Wins […]
Minor Happenings: McFarland Having A Breakout Season
May 14, 2010 by Tony Lastoria · Leave a Comment
“Minor Happenings” is a weekly column which covers the important developments and news in the Indians farm system. While most of the information in this report is from my own research and through interviews I have conducted with organizational personnel, some information in this report is collected and summarized from the various news outlets that […]
Seamheads.com Beefs Up Its Roster For 2010
March 1, 2010 by Mike Lynch · Leave a Comment
Recently I put out a call for new writers and was floored by the response. In just a week, we’ve added 36 new writers, a lot of whom are professionals or have had the pleasure of covering baseball during their lives, including Sean Lahman, Gabriel Schechter, and former ESPN senior writer Jon Pessah, who helped […]
“Ted Williams and the 1969 Washington Senators, the Last Winning Season”
December 11, 2008 by Ted Leavengood · 3 Comments
The author’s second book, Ted Williams and the 1969 Washington Senators: The Last Winning Season, is scheduled to be released by McFarland Publishing on February 24, 2009.
