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Here’s lookin’ at you Toots!

Here’s lookin’ at you Toots!

Today we welcome back Mark Kolier with something just a bit different. Mark recounts the story of Toots Shor's restaurant and sports bar. During its heyday, it was a favorite hangout of some of the biggest names in sports and show business...
Fun With Baseball Ejections!

Fun With Baseball Ejections!

With all the 'heavy writing" we do around here, every once in a while it's fun to step back and just have a little fun. So I thought this might be a good time to put out of my old file cabinet an essay I wrote about four years ago on an overlooked baseball topic: ejections...
The 1931 Tour of Japan

The 1931 Tour of Japan

Those of you who read Bill Gutman’s interesting post about Lefty O’Doul will recall Bill mentioned that Lefty was on the 1931 tour to Japan...
The Continued Evolution of Baseball

The Continued Evolution of Baseball

In today’s interesting essay, Paul Doyle gives us a summary of how the game has evolved regarding home runs, contrasting the Dead Ball Era with the Live Ball Era and with our present post-1965 era...
Jackie Mitchell Strikes Out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig!

Jackie Mitchell Strikes Out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig!

"I don't know what's going to happen if they begin to let women in baseball. Of course, they will never make good. Why? Because they are too delicate, that's why. It would kill them to play ball every day." –Babe Ruth, after being struck out by Jackie Mitchell...
Fun With Baseball Ejections!

Fun With Baseball Ejections!

In writing about Stan Musial the other day, someone mentioned that - not surprising - Stan had never been ejected from a game over his 22-year career. This little tidbit of information got my wheels spinning; and so I thought it would be fun to delve a little further into a topic that is almost always overlooked: baseball ejections.
It’s Presidents’ Day, Let’s Recall President Eisenhower’s “Baseball Secret!”

It’s Presidents’ Day, Let’s Recall President Eisenhower’s “Baseball Secret!”

“When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend and I went fishing. As we sat there in the warmth of the summer afternoon on a river bank, we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major league baseball player. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Unfortunately, neither of us got our wish...” -Dwight David Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States
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