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Southern League Shutouts: How Cannon Balls, Rubber Tax, Pelicans, and Hurricanes Made 1910 New Orleans The Shutout Capital of the World

January 4, 2021 by Frank Vaccaro
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Shutouts are so 1975, aren’t they? Well they’ve been on the steady decline since. Today, we see one every 150 games. But back in the day you could catch one every eight or nine games… some years even better. The 1908 National League holds the record: 160 shutouts. It is the only major league season with shutouts in over 25 percent of all games.... Read more of this article

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Winter Ball: A History of Baseball, Cuba, and Race

December 4, 2020 by Matthew Zachary
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In 2020, Cuban baseball players took center stage in the pandemic-shortened season. The Chicago White Sox, a team that won more than half its games just twice in the 2010s and not since 2012, finished the season with 35 wins, good for a .583 winning percentage (roughly a 94 win pace over a 162 game schedule). The club made the playoffs for the first... Read more of this article

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Baseball’s Biggest Hypocrite

November 20, 2020 by Doug Gladstone
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What if I were to tell you that there are 618 former players who aren’t receiving Major League Baseball (MLB) pensions? And that, of those 600+ retirees, many of them are persons of color, such as the Houston Astros’ Aaron Pointer — an NAACP award winner and diversity pioneer (he was the first African American referee in the PAC-10) who is... Read more of this article

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Negro Leagues DB Update: 1926 NNL Fielding & Pitching, 32 Home Runs for Suttles

November 9, 2020 by Gary Ashwill
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We’ve added newly audited and expanded statistics for the 1926 Negro National League, including fielding statistics, complete pitching statistics, batters’ hit by pitch, and a handful of new games and corrections to the record. While I don’t think that counting stats are, by themselves, a particularly good measure of the quality of Negro league... Read more of this article

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The Return

November 3, 2020 by Terry Keshner
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November 2, 2020 The Dead Don’t Die We have always wanted to meet Mario Andretti because he was, is, and likely always shall be, the coolest dude on wheels. Andretti can drive any car, anywhere, at any time. He can ride a bike, play poker, and swim with dolphins. Mario Andretti doesn’t really even drive. He commands. But Mario is now 80... Read more of this article

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State of the Game – Mike Port on Umpiring, Rule Changes and Analytics

October 14, 2020 by Derek Bain
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Mike Port’s professional baseball career spanned more than four decades, from 1969 to 2011. When his aspirations to play in the big leagues ended with an injury shortly after signing with San Diego, he accepted a position in the Padres’ minor league system and worked his way up to the role of Farm Director. In 1977 he began a 14 year stint with... Read more of this article

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We’re Back (At Last)

September 18, 2020 by Terry Keshner
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We’re Back White Sox 4, All You Assholes Who Don’t Like The White Sox, 3 September 17, 2020 Two thousand eight. The world has changed a bit since then. Two thousand eight was the last time the Chicago White Sox made the playoffs and now they’re finally back, braving into the postseason based upon a regular season and year unlike any other. The... Read more of this article

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From the Archives: “The Mysterious Floating Sensation”

August 11, 2020 by Mike Lynch
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The following was originally posted on October 6, 2008 and an abridged version appears in Baseball’s Untold History: The Wild Side published by Summer Game Books in 2017. Did he or didn’t he? That’s the question. Eddie Cicotte is widely recognized as the inventor of the knuckleball, earning his nickname “Knuckles” around... Read more of this article

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Negro Leagues DB Update: 1924 NNL Fielding & Pitching + 1921 Tesreau Bears

July 13, 2020 by Gary Ashwill
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A brief note on an update we made a few weeks ago. We have added: 1) Fielding statistics, full pitching statistics, and batters’ hit by pitch for the 1924 Negro National League, along with games involving one new independent team, Charlie Mills’s St. Louis Giants; 2) 1921 games between Black teams and a very good white semiprofessional team,... Read more of this article

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Negro Leagues Game of the Day on This Date in 1928 (June 15th)

June 15, 2020 by Kevin Johnson
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Friday, June 15th – In the final game of the series, the Birmingham Black Barons play the Cleveland Tigers at Luna Park. Birmingham has taken 3 of 4 from the ‘new look’ Tigers. Here are the starting lineups: Birmingham Black Barons (17-17) Geechie Meredith, RF Charles Wesley, 2B George McAllister, 1B Roy Parnell, CF Chuffy Alexander, LF Dewitt... Read more of this article

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