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Baseball of the Bygone Days, by Jimmy Wood, Part 3
Eckford BBC trophy balls Now for the third installment of Jimmy Wood’s memoirs, unpublished since their serialization by a newspaper syndicate in August 1916. The opening segment may be read at...
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Baseball of the Bygone Days, by Jimmy Wood, Part 4
Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1869 Now for the fourth chapter of Jimmy Wood’s memoirs, unpublished since their serialization by a newspaper syndicate in August 1916. The opening segment may be read at...
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Baseball of the Bygone Days, by Jimmy Wood, Part 5
Harry Wright, Ars Longa rendition Below, the fifth chapter of Jimmy Wood’s memoirs, unpublished since their serialization by a newspaper syndicate in August 1916. The opening segment, of six, may be...
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Baseball of the Bygone Days, by Jimmy Wood, Part 6
Chicago 1871,Wood at center This is the sixth and final installment of Jimmy Wood’s memoirs, unpublished since their serialization by a newspaper syndicate in August 1916. The opening segment, of six,...
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Picture Portfolio No. 7: Lost Ballparks
Bob Mayer has written, “When I hear Sinatra’s ‘There Used To Be A Ballpark,’ which was his personal ode to Ebbets Field, I think of the Dodgers and Giants leaving town. At the time I was dumbfounded...
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Mark Twain on Baseball
Mark Twain in his Hartford years I am thinking about Hartford now, and Mr. Clemens, because on Wednesday, September 17, I will be part of a panel at the Mark Twain House, “Base Ball in Mark Twain’s...
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Cats kill pigs kin
Popular Magazine, Nov 7 1924 Although I wrote this ten autumns ago, for the Woodstock Times, the point holds: that September and October are challenging months for baseball, as America’s other major...
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Fame & Fandom
Hilda Chester A hall of fame for fans may well be a great notion, with attendant creative and commercial possibilities, for it reflects the thinking behind that institution on Cooperstown’s Main...
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Ten Things I Think I Think on September 29
Not Such a Long Shot? First, it’s not me thinking anything today except Wow … a great, memorable season of baseball. The ten things in today’s post are thought by Elliott Kalb, Senior Editorial...
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The Braves’ ABC, by Ring Lardner
You Know Me Al Yesterday some Twitter pals and I were going around about all-time great baseball books, and inevitably Ring Lardner’s You Know Me Al came up. (Miss Grundy, I hasten to note that the...
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World Series Centennial Review: 1914
Hank Gowdy In today’s climate of parity, fans are familiar with worst-to-first (and reverse) scenarios, most recently with the Boston Red Sox, last in their division in 2012, champs in 2013 and last...
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Round Robin Baseball
Phillies’ Phantom WS Program Here’s something new–at least I had never heard about it. Remember the National League pennant race of 1964? Phillies fans certainly do. On September 21, with 12 games left...
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Baseball’s 100 Most Important People
Yes, he’s No. 1. This morning Graham Womack, at his fine site Baseball: Past and Present, posted “The 25 most important people in baseball history,” the product of a poll of 262 individuals. I applaud...
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Baseball’s 100 Most Important People, Part 2
Continuing from yesterday (http://goo.gl/GwKJ4A), here we fill out the top ten. The biographies of those not in the top 20 will be briefer, commensurate with their rankings. Alan and I will lash...
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Baseball’s 100 Most Important People, Part 3
Continuing from yesterday (http://goo.gl/s9hUYE), in today’s installment we provide five more of the longer biographies, bringing us up through No. 16. As mentioned last time, the accounts for those...
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Baseball’s 100 Most Important People, Part 4
Continuing from yesterday (http://goo.gl/TvLphS), in today’s installment we provide the last five of the longer biographies, bringing us up through No. 20. As mentioned, starting tomorrow you will see...
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Baseball’s 100 Most Important People, Part 5
Continuing from yesterday (http://goo.gl/asOj79), in today’s installment we provide biographies for those ranked from 21 through 40. Tomorrow, 41 through 60. To revisit the full list from 1 to 100, go...
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Baseball’s 100 Most Important People, Part 6
Continuing this illustrated series that commenced Monday (http://goo.gl/YkcJ4h), in today’s installment we provide biographies for those ranked from 41 through 60. Tomorrow, 61 through 80. To revisit...
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Baseball’s 100 Most Important People, Part 7
This the seventh installment of a book-length aeries that commenced on Monday (http://goo.gl/hMghOf). Today we provide biographies for those ranked from 61 through 80. Tomorrow we wrap up, with 81...
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Baseball’s 100 Most Important People, Part 8
Continuing from yesterday (http://goo.gl/HVQvfL), this marks the eighth and final installment of the series, offering biographies of the men ranked from 81 through 100. To revisit the complete list...
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