Slightly Better than Replacement Level
I regularly watch Major League Baseball, I think that goes for most of us. Not just my favorite team, the Chicago Cubs, no, I try to watch as much MLB as I can in a given week. Again, this is something that I think goes for most of us. It may seem like I’m stating […]
I write about the Negro Leagues quite often. They are a favorite topic of mine, thus I find myself returning to them regularly. The Negro League series I have been producing at Banished to the Pen for almost a year now is the best work I think I’ve ever done. I don’t claim to be […]
I read a lot about the game of baseball. On a daily basis, I’m reading articles from every corner of the internet and working on finishing some baseball-related book. The reason for this is simple, I love the game and the more I read the better I believe I become as a writer. I don’t […]
By the late 1920’s the idea of the two-way player had been pushed to the back of the baseball landscape. At least this was true in the white major leagues, where things had become more set in stone as far as positions played are concerned. In the Negro major leagues and minor leagues across the […]