Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Back on Friday, June 13th, the Los Angeles Dodgers held their annual Pride Night event. To get the cat out of the bag, I’m not the biggest fan of corporate Pride events. More often than not, they are pinkwashing affairs, meant to distract from actions that the corporation in question hopes you will forget about. […]
Virgil Trucks had a really good Major League Baseball career. The burly right-hander pitched in 17 seasons, amassed a 40.4 bWAR, won the 1945 World Series, and finished his career with a very respectable 3.54 FIP and 117 ERA+. Trucks also pitched five seasons in the minors where he was (surprise, surprise) very good. However, […]
2007 wasn’t that long ago, only 17 years if my math is mathing correctly. Yet, Black Baseball Out of Season feels so much older than that. Most of that comes down to the writing style employed by the author, William F. McNeil. In that sense, I have no complaints and anyone who is a student […]
When one thinks of the Negro Leagues, Colorado is not usually a point of interest. To be clear, there was Negro Leagues baseball being played in Colorado, but there was never Negro major leagues baseball in the Centennial State. The minor league scene in Colorado, specifically the Denver area, was reportedly vibrant. From that area, […]
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 […]