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A new series that goes back, back, backThe Laws of Baseball, drafted prior to the convention of 1857, which gave us 9 innings, 9 men, and 90-foot baselines. The original documents wll be on view at the Baseball Hall of Fame on Memorial Day weekend, 2026; courtesy of Hayden J. Trubitt.

When did baseball begin? A game called baseball (or baste-ball, or bace, or round-b...


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Reggie Smith, unseen but remembered by David Lawrence ReedReggie Smith, Topps card 1968

Last year I created a series at Our Game of “the greatest plays you never saw,” which referenced all the famous plays before Al Gionfriddo’s catch of a Joe DiMaggio blast to the bullpen gate … by which I meant all those plays stored in the memory of old-timers but capture...


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A new series that goes back, back, backThe Excelsior BBC of Brooklyn, 1860, with star pitcher Jim Creighton holding the ball.

This story of 1860 — which focuses on the rivalry between the Atlantics and the Excelsiors — may be said to have begun in 1858, at the Fashion Race Course in Flushing, New York, not far from today’s Citi Field. (See:


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A new series that goes back, back, backUmberto Eco (January 5, 1932 — February 19, 2016)

I spotted a tweet the other day that perfectly illustrates my need (and yours) to go, in baseball terms, back, back, back. “By the age of 70,” Umberto Eco wrote, “he who doesn’t read will have lived only one life. He who reads will have lived 5000 years. Reading is immortality ba...


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A vexingly odd imageSt. Mary’s

This brief post is my old pal, Mark Rucker, with whom I have collaborated on many projects over the past four decades. As proprietor of The Rucker Archive, he has made a notable contribution to SABR (https://sabr.org/rucker-archive).

It r...


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