Remembering a Baseball Player So We Don’t Forget the Mistakes of Our Past
February 18, 2010 by Jon Pessah · Leave a Comment
A good friend of mine lost a good friend yesterday. My friend is Claire Smith, and her friend was Alfred “Slick†Surratt. Slick was a player for the Kansas City Monarchs, a teammate of Satchel Paige and Jackie Robinson in the Negro Baseball League. He died at 87. Claire was one of the first women […]
Book Review: “The Baseball Talmud”
March 18, 2009 by Mike Lynch · 2 Comments
Howard Megdal’s The Baseball Talmud: The Definitive Position-By-Position Ranking of Baseball’s Chosen Players was a joy to read, even for an Agnostic like me.
