Typically this column is used to write about players who made a huge impact on the game. That impact just happened to be outside the walls of Major League Baseball. There are plenty of amazing players with amazing careers that I still need to get to, and I will. However, the under the dashboard purpose […]
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Three Batter Minimum: An Odd Pitch Count
I absolutely love the ridiculousness of professional baseball. It’s a sport, sure, but it is also a professional endeavor. It’s something that grown adults are partaking in so that they can make money, build a career, live their lives, etc. Yet, at the same time, professional baseball is home to events and happenings that are […]
A Trip to the Library: The Dizzy and Daffy Dean Barnstorming Tour: Race, Media, and America’s National Pastime
On the trip home after passing my Critical Care Emergency Medical Transport Program my wife and I stopped at a humongous book store in Columbus, Ohio called The Book Loft. I, of course, beelined through all the fire hazard death trap tunnels of books to the baseball section. My wife’s gift for passing the aforementioned […]
Baseball Beyond MLB: Wang Kuang-hui
On August 30th, 2021 Wang Kuang-hui passed away at the age of 56. If I were to simply break his career down in terms of numbers I’m sure a lot of folks would come away underwhelmed. I’ll get to his actual stats in a bit, but to focus only on those would be to sell […]
The WBSC Rules Europe
The journey of the European Super League of Professional Baseball has been one of the strangest I can ever recall for a prospective league. Their existence was first announced near the end of 2020 during a global pandemic. They had a lot of announcements spread over various social media platforms that didn’t come together to […]