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This Great Game
With thanks for another seasonDuke Snider, my boyhood idol, at Ebbets Field, 1957We grow up in baseball, and we grow old with it. In between we go through some changes, but the game is a fixed point;...
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An Odd Playing and Scoring Rule
Super-nerdy stuff from John Thorn, Bob Tholkes, and John ZinnExtract from scoresheet of Second Fashion Race Course Game, August 17, 1858; given to winning pitcher Frank PidgeonBruce Allardice is the...
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Hoops, Hebrews, and the Hudson River League
From “Play’s the Thing,” Woodstock Times, May 12, 2005Kingston’s basketball champions, 1900–1901Well, it’s still basketball season, with the NCAA staging its own championship rounds and a betting...
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Tales of the Hudson River League
The first in a five-part series from the summer of 1981From the Spalding Guide of 1905: two Hudson River League clubs; note Dan Brouthers, No. 8I was 34 years old and, with my then wife and two young...
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More Tales of the Hudson River League
As promised/threatened, Part Two, from 44 years agoSaugerties, Opening Day in 1905, its last season in the Hudson River LeagueThis series commenced yesterday, at:...
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Yet More Tales of the Hudson River League
As promised/threatened, Part Three, from 44 years agoThe Kingston Colonials of 1904This series commenced at: https://ourgame.mlblogs.com/tales-of-the-hudson-river-league-d7f463349066.Two weekends ago I...
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Even More Tales of the Hudson River League
As promised/threatened, Part Four, from 44 years agoThe New York Giants would land here on Sunday morning to play the Saugerties nineThis series commenced at:...
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Astoundingly, More Tales of the Hudson River League
As promised/threatened, Part Five, from 44 years agoThis series commenced at: https://ourgame.mlblogs.com/tales-of-the-hudson-river-league-d7f463349066.To repeat myself from the intro to Part One, I...
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The Greatest Plays You Never Saw
Famous in their day, yet uncaptured on film or videoThe Glove that made The Catch, courtesy Baseball Hall of Fame and Library of CongressWhy do this year’s series? Because until a newsreel photographer...
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The First Unassisted Triple Play
The Greatest Plays You Never Saw, №2Paul Hines, Chicago center fielder in 1876How rare is the unassisted triple play? In all of MLB’s history there have been only 15 — fewer than the number of perfect...
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George Wright — June 14, 1870
George Wright — June 14, 1870The Greatest Plays You Never Saw, №3George Wright, Cincinnati Red StockingsThis week’s great play, captured neither on film nor photo, precedes the onset of Major League...
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Fred Merkle — September 23, 1908
Fred Merkle — September 23, 1908The Greatest Plays You Never Saw, №4Fred Merkle, age 18 in 1907This year’s series highlights the game’s greatest plays, unrecalled in the memory of any living fan. For...
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