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Today, lifelong Giants fan Bill Schaefer shares with us some random thoughts and humorous stories he's picked up over the years from observing at close hand the great game we all love...
These last few baseball seasons have been puzzling to long time baseball fans who have been barraged by analytical terms such as launch angles, exit velocities...
Bill Gutman’s recent essay about the fine Dead Ball Era pitcher Jack Coombs got me thinking about the great Philadelphia Athletics teams from 1910-1914...
All baseball history fans, especially old Cub fans like me who suffered through decades of mismanagement during the P.K. Wrigley years, will enjoy Paul Doyle's interesting essay today...
Editor's Note: If you're concerned about the trend today's game is on, I urge you to read Bill Gutman's blog post today. What Bill has uncovered in his research is unsettling and a cause for concern for all of us who love the game...
It's always exciting for us when one of our contributors comes out with a publication of his own, and we're always glad to give it as much exposure as we can...
“[Von McDaniel] was an instant major league pitching sensation in 1957, a struggling Class B hurler in 1958, and a career minor league infielder by 1959.”...
Ah, America’s Pastime. It would be a mistake for today’s under-35 baseball fans to believe that baseball before 1973 (the first year of the Designated Hitter,) was baseball in the stone age...
As Baseball History Comes Alive celebrates its fifth anniversary, we not only wanted to thank you, our subscribers, for your continued support, but also to bring you up to date on the ways we're trying to build and improve our website...
“He always went to Cooperstown every year and to old-timers’ games. He went to everything he was invited to. He loved it because baseball was his life..."
Since many of you know of my love for the Dead Ball Era, I've decided to start a new series highlighting the careers of some of my favorite players from that long-ago era...
In the photo above, we see Enos Slaughter crossing home plate in a cloud of dust as he scores what proved to be the winning run in Game Seven of the 1946 World Series...
Well, they're at it again. While Major League baseball continues to be fixated on speeding up the game, they're also finally taking heed about the lack of action...
Some of you will remember my post from a couple weeks ago in which I mentioned I was reading the new book on Tony Lazzeri written by one of our regular readers, Larry Baldassaro.
Just recently, I wrote about baseball's attempt to limit the length of extra-inning games by implementing the rather un-baseball-like rule of putting a runner on second base to begin the tenth inning..
As we all know postseason errors can become magnified and can even overshadow the career of the fine ballplayer. Just think about the late Bill Buckner. ..
People no longer need to try to imagine playing baseball during a worldwide pandemic since here we are in 2021 and that’s exactly what happened last year.