This is a short and sweet update. It’s been a while since I made my initial post about my personal policy, as well as the general policy at Words Above Replacement, regarding racist team names. To keep it simple, I don’t use them and the site doesn’t use them. This policy isn’t going to change […]
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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 […]
Baseball Streaming Guide Update
Typically I don’t spend the time writing an article for any updates to the Baseball Streaming Guide. This time I’ve made an exception due to the massive number of leagues recently added to the Guide. Below I’ll get into why those leagues were added as well as a brief look at what leagues were actually […]
A Trip to the Library: Pete Rose: An American Dilemma
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 […]
Three Batter Minimum: Player to Be Named Later
For the most part, the unaffiliated baseball world is a very organized one. The years of it being this wild and crazy place where surprising stuff happens all the time ended long ago. They play professional baseball, the same as the affiliated leagues. There’s nothing truly zany about the way unaffiliated baseball leagues and teams […]