Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Tim Kurkjian’s career is that of a likable individual. I’ve long thought he is exactly that and this book does absolutely nothing to change my opinion of the man, for the first 200 or so pages. During that span, the former Baseball Tonight mainstay comes across as one of the most likable blokes to ever […]
If ever there was a topic that is geared specifically for me, it’s the topic that this book purports to be about. I have written extensively about the major league status of the leagues I have come to refer to as the Negro major leagues. Any exploration of this topic is welcome by me as […]
Early on in Kostya Kennedy’s book, it becomes clear that he has no desire to provide any sort of deep introspection into Pete Rose. All he has to offer is a surface-level analysis of, well, nothing. That meant something needed to be added to make the book flash in some way. A book without substance […]
When we talk about professional baseball and the idea of the color line that dominated Major League Baseball’s activities for so many years we are almost exclusively talking about black ballplayers. Specifically, African-American ballplayers. Most discussions of the Negro Leagues are centered on African-American ballplayers. The eventual breaking of the color line is once again […]
A few years back I started a, now abandoned project, of calculating the true win-loss records of every team to ever play professional baseball. My methodology was to go league-by-league and in every season in a given league add in the playoff results to the regular season results. Once that was finished, presto, I could […]