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Where We Are and Where We’re Going

I’m going to keep this short and sweet, I haven’t been around at all lately. Who knew that finishing your Bachelor’s while also having a family, a full-time job, and three part-time gigs would cut into one’s ability to watch and write about baseball? I had intended to keep writing, but as my workload piled […]

Posted on June 27, 2024June 27, 2024 Author Bill Thompson Comments(2)
Josh Gibson sitting on a bench in his Homestead Grays uniform.
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The Negro Major Leagues and MLB History

Leave it to Major League Baseball to cause me to take a break from school and write about unaffiliated baseball again. Whenever MLB involves themselves with the Negro Leagues in any fashion, I am interested in some way. When it’s the Negro major leagues that MLB is specifically getting involved with then my brow is […]

Posted on June 11, 2024June 11, 2024 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Piece of garbage.
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The BayStars Are an Awful Organization

A week ago the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Nippon Professional Baseball’s (NPB) Central League (JPCL) signed Trevor Bauer. This isn’t a Transaction Analysis or a look at Trevor Bauer the pitcher. I don’t care about either of those elements. The BayStars could have signed Bauer for $1 and I would still say they were a […]

Posted on March 21, 2023March 20, 2023 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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Rules Schmules

What did it take to finally get me to write something for the site again? I wish I could say that it was because I am done with college and will be back to writing all time time. Alas, the reality is that I finished up the final semester for my Associate’s Degree early and […]

Posted on February 20, 2023February 19, 2023 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Max Murphy taking a big hack for the Winnipeg Goldeyes
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A Mountain in Winnipeg

Max Murphy is a player I’ve known about for a few years now. He first came to my attention when he was with the, still unaffiliated at the time, St. Paul Saints. It’s not hard to get my attention when you’re a decent power hitter on what was then my favorite team in unaffiliated baseball. […]

Posted on September 13, 2022September 9, 2022 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)

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