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Fourth in a season-long seriesHappy Birthday, US (or us!)

Today, baseball is played in more than 100 nations. In addition to MLB’s annual World Series, 20 nations compete for the World Baseball Classic (WBC) title, every third or fourth year. In 2026,when Venezuela won, the WBC brought together such distant regions as Europe, Asia, Australia, the Caribbea...


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How Retrosheet Changed Everything, by Jay Wigley

This is an excerpt from a book written and published by Jay Wigley, available at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/How-Retrosheet-Saved-Baseball-History/dp/B0GT5CKKC2/.


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Third in a season-long seriesHappy Birthday, US (or us!)

In these days after MLB’s annual celebration of Jackie Robinson Day, on April 15, let’s look back to his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 — and the climate that preceded it, going back beyond the hero’s birth. His subsequent success and his path to the Hall of Fame both seemed assured after his rookie year (a...


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Second in a season-long series: Ruth, Foster, JacksonHappy Birthday, US (or us!)

This week, let’s review 1920, a momentous year for baseball and America. I will focus not on a single moment, as with FDR’s greenlight letter, but instead on three individuals: Babe Ruth, Rube Foster, and Joe Jackson. For each of them, it may be said that they changed the game and the na...


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Louis Sockalexis and the Club Nickname; by Mark RuckerLouis Sockalexis, postcard in Cleveland uniform, 1912

The Cleveland Baseball Club had a chance to do something historic and meaningful when they decided to change their name. Racially sensitive white people felt it would be advisable to remove names like the Washington Redskins, Cleveland Indians, and Edm...


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