Cast Your Vote For the 1917 All-Stars!

September 26, 2013 by Mike Lynch · Leave a Comment

The Voice of the Fan—YOU—will be heard! Here is your golden opportunity to cast your vote for the most deserving base ball players to play in the 1917 All-Star Series between the two great leagues, taking place July 13-15 at the spacious Polo Grounds in New York, N.Y. Voting is taking place right now. The […]

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The Pittsburgh Americans? It Almost Happened

June 1, 2009 by Mike Lynch · 2 Comments

Over the first 30 years of the modern era, Barney Dreyfuss’ Pittsburgh Pirates battled John McGraw’s New York Giants for National League supremacy, but had Ban Johnson gotten his wish, the Pirates might have been the class of the American League instead. On October 11, 1899 a group of executives from the Western League, including […]

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