Negro Leagues DB Update: 1922-23 Cuban League
July 23, 2013 by Gary Ashwill · Leave a Comment
We’re making a small but important addition to the DB today—the 1922/23 Cuban winter league, plus a few additional games for 1916, 1919, and 1922. After a few seasons of turbulence in the Cuban game, the 1922/23 season marked a new beginning. The league added two new teams, Santa Clara and Marianao, to the Habana-Almendares […]
The Clark Griffith Monument
June 30, 2011 by Ted Leavengood · 4 Comments
In 1956 a monument was dedicated to Clark Griffith outside old Griffith Stadium just months after the former owner of the team and stadium died. Â His passing was marked by every major newspaper, his funeral attended by every official of the game. Â He was recognized as a giant of the game whose place in Cooperstown […]
Ozzie’s Big Mouth
June 9, 2010 by Aaron Somers · Leave a Comment
In my post yesterday regarding players drafted in this year’s MLB Draft who have some bloodline connection to a former or current player, manager, or front office executive (which, by the way, MLB.com has an extensive list up with all of the connections taken in this year’s draft and it’s a much more extensive list […]
PCL Opening Day: 1953
March 12, 2010 by Brendan Macgranachan · 4 Comments
It was the opening of the baseball season in America. As major league teams wrapped up their respective spring trainings and prepared to throw their opening pitch of the 1953 season in a few weeks time, the Pacific Coast League was ready to start now. Warm west coast weather allowed the PCL season to start […]
Book Review: Joe Cronin, A Life In Baseball
March 12, 2010 by Daniel Shoptaw · Leave a Comment
One of the perks of being a baseball bloggers is, at times, you get a chance to get a free baseball book on the off-chance that you’ll write about it to an audience that may care what you have to say. Â I’ve had four or five of these opportunities come directly to me, but this […]
