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Dave Roberts rounding the bases with the Oklahoma City 89ers
Baseball Beyond MLB

Baseball Beyond MLB: Dave Roberts

Some great players have amazing careers that everyone is well aware of. Then there are players who have long careers that have ups and downs but overall end up being really great. We tend to write a lot about the players with amazing careers. Those with longer careers but lower peaks don’t warrant as much […]

Posted on January 27, 2022January 19, 2022 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Harry Strohm with the Topeka Kaws
Baseball Beyond MLB

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 […]

Posted on August 30, 2021August 18, 2021 Author Bill Thompson Comments(2)
Smead Jolley with the San Francisco Seals in 1928
Baseball Beyond MLB

Baseball Beyond MLB: Smead Jolley

If one spends any amount of time scrolling through minor league statistics on Baseball Reference they quickly realize there are a lot of players with all-time great careers outside of Major League Baseball. I’m not even talking unaffiliated players, but rather those who spent most of their career in the affiliated minor leagues. There are […]

Posted on April 29, 2021April 27, 2021 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Tris Speaker in uniform sometime in the early 1900s.
Bridging the Two-Way Gap

Bridging the Two-Way Gap: Tris Speaker

Tris Speaker was once one of the best baseball players in the world. From 1909 until 1927 he was possibly the best player in baseball, and at the very least belongs in the same conversation with Babe Ruth, Joe Rogan, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Oscar Charleston, etc. The memory of Speaker’s place in the game […]

Posted on September 6, 2019December 6, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)

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