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Diamond Visions: Baseball’s Greatest Illustration Art, Part 5
Artist: John Falter Boy, now that I’m at the end of the series I realize that I like these last five as much as any of the others ranked higher. But Clickbait 101 has no lesson plan for unranked...
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Surprise Postseason Heroes
[I delivered this brief talk in my hometown of Catskill, at Beattie-Powers Place, on Saturday.] There are probably a good many Mets fans among you, so forgive me for bringing up a painful memory: the...
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Abner Cartwright
Cooperstown, NY Abner Cartwright, Alexander Doubleday . . . these composite names stand for an exceedingly odd couple whose identities have been stolen, accomplishments merged, and stories intertwined...
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Bee’s Knees and Cat’s Whiskers
Just the other day, a writer for Men’s Health requested an interview with me about the origin and evolution of the jock strap, supporter, and cup–which prompted my recall of the venerable Jacques...
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Merry Winter Solstice
Not knowing whether to wish readers of Our Game a Happy Hanukkah, a Merry Christmas, or a Joyous Kwanzaa, I halve the difference with the title of this post. Herewith, an array of baseball greetings of...
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Light Saber or SABR Light?
It has not been hard to let Star Wars mania pass me by … until now. Friend Ken Mars posted this on Facebook and I pay homage.
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The Magic Glute
Homo erectus With apologies to Mozart, I don’t know why I didn’t share this good if elderly column earlier. It’s not about baseball as such, but it is about sport, and language, and things that matter....
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A Tip to Teddy
This epistle to President Theodore Roosevelt appeared in the very first issue of the great Baseball Magazine, in May of 1908. Teddy had just entered upon his final year in the White House, having...
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Old Fashioned SABR Metrics
You all know about sabermetrics, Bill James’s neologism for an analytical approach to baseball. Bill honored SABR with this coinage because SABR represented intellectual traits he admired: a dedication...
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The Shoeless One
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The newspaper account reported that he “found the shoes lent him were too irritating and he deliberately took them off after the first inning,” playing the...
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David Voigt’s History of Baseball
David Q. Voigt My old friend and illustrious colleague David Quentin Voigt died on January 16 at the age of 89. I asked him to create for the first edition of Total Baseball (1989) a section on the...
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David Voigt’s History of Baseball, Part 2
William A. Hulbert This is the second installment of David Voigt’s history, as fine a brief telling of the tale as I know. This series commenced yesterday at:...
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David Voigt’s History of Baseball, Part 3
Players League Guide, 1890. This is the third installment of David Voigt’s history, as fine a brief telling of the tale as I know. This series commenced at: http://goo.gl/E4adJX. The Players’ League...
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David Voigt’s History of Baseball, Part 4
Baseball’s Anthem This is the fourth installment of David Voigt’s history, as fine a brief telling of the tale as I know. This series commenced at: http://goo.gl/E4adJX. Peace and Prosperity: 1903-1920...
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David Voigt’s History of Baseball, Part 5
This is the fifth installment of David Voigt’s history, as fine a brief telling of the tale as I know. This series commenced at: http://goo.gl/E4adJX. Baseball’s Second Golden Age: 1921-1931 Over the...
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David Voigt’s History of Baseball, Part 6
Making do with less. This is the sixth installment of David Voigt’s history, as fine a brief telling of the tale as I know. This series commenced at: http://goo.gl/E4adJX. Austerity Baseball: 1932-1945...
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David Voigt’s History of Baseball, Part 7
Capehart Wilshire TV, 1950 This is the seventh installment of David Voigt’s history, as fine a brief telling of the tale as I know. This series commenced at: http://goo.gl/E4adJX. Baseball’s Postwar...
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David Voigt’s History of Baseball, Part 8
Walter O’Malley, April 20, 1958 This is the eighth installment of David Voigt’s history, as fine a brief telling of the tale as I know. This series commenced at: http://goo.gl/E4adJX. Postwar...
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David Voigt’s History of Baseball, Part 9
Joey Jay, 1961 WS; Hy Peskin This is the ninth installment of David Voigt’s history, as fine a brief telling of the tale as I know. This series commenced at: http://goo.gl/E4adJX. Campaigns of the...
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David Voigt’s History of Baseball, Part 10
1969 WS Program This is the tenth installment of David Voigt’s history, as fine a brief telling of the tale as I know. This series commenced at: http://goo.gl/E4adJX. Campaigns of the ’70s: AL,...
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