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The BBWAA Loves Them Some Curt Schilling

It’s become a yearly tradition for Baseball Writers Association of America members to release their National Baseball Hall of Fame ballots and hold their noses over voting for Curt Schilling. The initial reaction I have is similar to others, “why do they keep voting for him? Don’t they care about the victims of his hatred?” […]

Posted on January 13, 2021January 11, 2021 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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Thom Brennaman, Really?

Every once in a while a baseball league or organization makes a decision that leaves you scratching your head. Not quite as often a league or organization makes a series of decisions that make you question whether anyone involved in making said decisions have a shred of intelligence. Typically when an article is started this […]

Posted on December 16, 2020December 10, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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A Trip to the Library

A Trip to the Library: Raceball

Every so often you start reading a book and realize very quickly, “Yeah man, this is my jam!” The book in question resonates with you from the very onset and that resonation only grows stronger the deeper into the book you get. Finally, you finish the book and you wish there were more pages for […]

Posted on December 7, 2020December 2, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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The Damage Integration Wrought

In the next month, I should have a review on the site of Rob Ruck’s Raceball. The short version of the review is that it is one of the best books on baseball I have ever read. While all of it has been interesting and thought-provoking there was one issue that was touched upon that […]

Posted on December 2, 2020November 30, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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The Depressing Tale of Baseball

I keep a notepad with story ideas for this website. It’s quite long and I’m always adding ideas to the notepad. I know that I likely won’t get to every idea, but if I have a decent idea I want to make sure it’s jotted down so that I don’t forget. Some ideas stick around […]

Posted on September 2, 2020September 1, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)

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January 21, 2021

Super psyched for the start of the best playoffs in baseball.

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January 20, 2021

Issue #53 is out now, featuring stories from @depstein1983, @BillCubbieBlue, and @BenBilotti. Don't miss out!

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January 20, 2021

RA12 were historically bad this LBPRC season. A lot of folks, including myself, rode Roberto Alomar's team pretty hard all season long but a deeper look at what Alomar has been trying to do with baseball in Puerto Rico shows how wrong we were,

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