Slightly Better than Replacement Level
I didn’t plan on writing about baseball this week. My schedule has been fairly intense, and it won’t let up for at least another month. Unfortunately, when life gets busy, it’s often my baseball writing that takes a backseat. However, when a day like October 17th, 2025, comes along, the writing bug stirs to life […]
How much of Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever is written by Satchel Paige, and how much is written by David Lipman? How much is written by Lipman pretending to be Paige? How much of the content within the pages of Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever actually took place? If I were a gambling man, I’d wager that […]
The Negro Leagues Are Major Leagues is an interesting concept. The title came on the heels of Major League Baseball’s decision to declare the Negro Leagues were major leagues. I’m not going to use this review to litigate that announcement, I’ve done that plenty on this site already. Regardless, a collection of essays discussing the […]
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 […]
The last time I wrote about Adam Brett Walker II was to celebrate his success in Nippon Professional Baseball’s Central League playing for the Yomiuri Giants. His 2022 stint in NPB represented his second shot at the major league level. His initial shot had come in Serie del Caribe in 2021 for Caimanes de Barranquilla […]