Sometimes we don’t appreciate what we have even when it’s right in front of us. Despite Julio Franco having a long Major League Baseball career and the majority of that career taking place during my formative baseball watching years I never realized how great of a player he actually was. It wasn’t until recently that […]
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Baseball Beyond MLB: Harry Strohm
Harry Strohm never played an inning of baseball in the major leagues. The Kansas City, Missouri native spent the entirety of his career, all 25 seasons, in the affiliated minor leagues. His is the sort of career that isn’t really possible nowadays. Strohm played in an era where there were more opportunities in the affiliated […]
A Trip to the Library: The 1937 Newark Bears: A Baseball Legend
Sometimes when I’m reading a baseball book I have to stop and ask myself, “Is this book actually good or am I only finding it interesting because it’s covering a subject I’m not familiar with?” When this happens I hem and haw while actually reading the book and then have to spend at least a […]
MLB and the Atlantic League Rule Changes
It’s been some time since any baseball news broke that I felt was worth running to my keyboard to cover for the site. Sure, cool stuff has happened as well as the typical baseball being shitty stuff. None of that jumped out at me though as something worth expounding and extrapolating on. Any sport that […]
Three Batter Minimum: Why the Rockies?
Branding in professional baseball is hard. Not always, but a lot of the time there aren’t any slam dunk ways to market your baseball team and you settle on what you think will work the best. Then there are the times when what you think will work the best is you as an affiliated minor […]