Daniel R. Epstein – Beyond the Box Score: Women play baseball, that is a simple fact. They play in the amateur ranks and they play professionally, both in their own leagues and in leagues with men. There’s no reason that women playing baseball shouldn’t get more attention, but ultimately the women who do play get […]
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Bridging the Two-Way Gap: Dale Gear
Dale Gear had dabbled with being a two-way player through most of the beginning of his career. In 1898 with the Kansas City Blues of the A-level Western League he took the plunge the rest of the way. That year he played 1 game at first base, 2 games at second base, 1 game at […]
The Cattle Has Arrived
Today concludes Major League Baseball’s annual First-Year Player Draft. MLB desperately wants this to be an event, similar to the drafts held in the National Basketball Association and National Football League. To that end, they schedule a bare minimum of games on the first day, when the biggest names are picked, and do their darndest […]
This Week in Baseball: 05-27-2019
MLB.com – Jesse Sanchez: Diamilette Quiles took the field this past week. It shouldn’t be news, yet it is, because in most places around the globe she would be told she couldn’t play or that she had to play in a different all-woman league if one existed in her area. Liga Béisbol Superior Doble A […]
Bridging the Two-Way Gap: Leon Day
Two-way players were commonplace in the Negro Leagues. There were many reasons for this, most of which I have gotten into before. To keep it short, there were lots of two-way players in the Negro Leagues and that’s why the Babe Ruth to Shohei Ohtani narrative is a false one. When we are on this […]