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Harry Strohm with the Topeka Kaws
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Baseball Beyond MLB: Harry Strohm

Harry Strohm never played an inning of baseball in the major leagues. The Kansas City, Missouri native spent the entirety of his career, all 25 seasons, in the affiliated minor leagues. His is the sort of career that isn’t really possible nowadays. Strohm played in an era where there were more opportunities in the affiliated […]

Posted on August 30, 2021August 18, 2021 Author Bill Thompson Comments(2)
Smead Jolley with the San Francisco Seals in 1928
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Baseball Beyond MLB: Smead Jolley

If one spends any amount of time scrolling through minor league statistics on Baseball Reference they quickly realize there are a lot of players with all-time great careers outside of Major League Baseball. I’m not even talking unaffiliated players, but rather those who spent most of their career in the affiliated minor leagues. There are […]

Posted on April 29, 2021April 27, 2021 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Peng Cheng-min slugging a home run during the 2016 Taiwan Series
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Baseball Beyond MLB: Peng Cheng-min

We’re almost deep enough into the latest Chinese Professional Baseball League season for there to have been enough games played to actually write meaningfully about the season. We’re not quite there yet though and I figured what way to scratch that always-present CPBL itch than with an article about an all-time CPBL great. Not just […]

Posted on April 6, 2021August 10, 2021 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
David Espinosa playing the field during a 2012 game with the Lincoln Saltdogs
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Baseball Beyond MLB: David Espinosa

So far I have used this column to highlight all-time great careers that were worthy of more notoriety. People who excelled outside of Major League Baseball at such a high level that not only should their careers be well remembered but they should be considered among baseball’s elite. There are plenty more players like that […]

Posted on March 9, 2021March 7, 2021 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Juan Pizarro on the mound for Cangrejeros de Santurce
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Baseball Beyond MLB: Juan Pizarro

I’m not going to try and lie and act like I was acutely aware of who Juan Pizarro was prior to his passing a couple of weeks back. In all my various baseball research I had never stumbled across his name as more than a passing oddity. Even then I can’t say with one hundred […]

Posted on March 2, 2021October 3, 2021 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)

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