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New Blog Topic: The Philadelphia Athletics “White Elephant”

Have you ever wondered why the Philadelphia Athletics had a “white elephant" as their mascot?...

Posted on: April 1, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 4 Comments

New Blog Topic: THE .400 HITTER – GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

It's one of baseball's magical, yet elusive numbers. So elusive that it hasn't been achieved in 80 years, not since the great Ted Williams finished the 1941 season with a .406 batting average...

Posted on: March 30, 2021
By: Bill Gutman
With: 20 Comments

BASEBALL APPETIZERS FOR THE ’21 SEASON

We love to think about baseball and talk baseball and figure out how our favorite team is going to do this year...

Posted on: March 28, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 6 Comments

Tony Lazzeri Has One of the Greatest Days in Major League History!

“Tony Lazzeri was a money player almost without equal and one of the smartest athletics ever to patrol the diamond”...

Posted on: March 27, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 9 Comments

Protecting Pitchers From Line Drives

The sound of the crack of the bat. It’s a sound like no other in sports. When winter turns to spring it’s one of the harbingers of the summer game in the United States and wherever baseball is played around the world!...

Posted on: March 25, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 10 Comments

New Blog Topic: BECOMING A BASEBALL FAN IN THE 1950s

All longtime baseball fans have vivid memories of how it all started, whether it be collecting baseball cards, watching games on television, playing ball with your friends,

Posted on: March 23, 2021
By: Bill Gutman
With: 11 Comments

New Blog Topic: ARE THE HITTERS BEGINNING TO LOOK DIFFERENTLY AT THE SHIFT

There has been a lot of talk about the shift in baseball this spring, including here in these pages. Some feel it should be banned, others vote for modifying it,

Posted on: March 21, 2021
By: Bill Gutman
With: 2 Comments

Great Baseball Photo Collections: The Charles Conlon Collection, Part One

Today, we’ll continue our tour through some of greatest baseball photo collections. We’ll take a look into the Charles Conlon collection, probably the most famous collection from the early decades of the 20th century...

Posted on: March 20, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 3 Comments

New Blog Topic: Some Thoughts About Infield Shifts

My friend Bill Gutman and I are both old-school baseball purists, so you can imagine how we feel about some of the new analytics such as “launch angle,” WAR, Win Shares, and others we can’t even pronounce...

Posted on: March 18, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 18 Comments

New Blog Topic: MLB EXPERIMENTING WITH MORE RULE CHANGES

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 caused by fewer balls being put in play during a ballgame...

Posted on: March 16, 2021
By: Bill Gutman
With: 24 Comments

Great Baseball Photo Collections, Part I: The George Brace Collection

I think it’s a safe assumption to say most of us enjoy looking at old baseball photos, especially those old black-and white collections from the first half of the twentieth century...

Posted on: March 13, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 7 Comments

New Blog Topic: HAPPY FELTON’S KNOTHOLE GANG

Once upon a time, many years ago, there was a pre-game baseball show that actually brought young baseball players of Little League age to the ballpark...

Posted on: March 11, 2021
By: Bill Gutman
With: 7 Comments

New Blog Topic: Time for Another Quiz!

My quiz from last week about the "Mystery Person" in the Polo rounds Clubhouse while Willie Mays made his famous catch (it was Jeo Garagiola), that I'm back for more this week!

Posted on: March 9, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 0 Comments

STAN MUSIAL: THE BEGINNING-THE CRISES- THE THIRD MVP

“Whaddya say, whaddya say!” was Stan Musial’s standard, smiling greeting...

Posted on: March 9, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 5 Comments

The Philadelphia Athletics Complete A “Double Triple Steal”!

You may be wondering what the heck a “double triple steal” is. You’re not alone.

Posted on: March 7, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 5 Comments

New Blog Topic: HIGH VELOCITY PITCHING – BLESSING OR CURSE

Just recently, a friend forwarded me a story that appeared in the Washington Post back in May of 2019...

Posted on: March 6, 2021
By: Bill Gutman
With: 5 Comments

Ballplayers and Children, Part Four: Lou Gehrig

My ongoing series: Ballplayers and Their Sons got me thinking about the Iron Horse and his well-known interaction with kids, so I thought I'd give him some overlooked attention...

Posted on: March 5, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 4 Comments

Ballplayers and Their Children, Part Three: Hack Wilson and Son Bobby.

The diminutive Hack Wilson was one of the most accomplished power hitters in the game during the late 1920s and early 1930s...

Posted on: March 3, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 5 Comments

New Blog Topic: SOME VERY STRANGE BASEBALL RULES

For as long as most of us can remember, the basic rules of baseball haven't really changed much since we discovered the game...

Posted on: March 3, 2021
By: Bill Gutman
With: 4 Comments

New Blog Topic: The Best Catchers Of All Time – In Terms of Throwing Out Base Stealers

While doing the research about great catchers, one of the interesting stats I uncovered was that Roy Campanella has the highest “caught stealing” percentage in major league history...

Posted on: March 1, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 6 Comments

Ballplayers and Their Children, Part Two: “Sad” Sam Jones

In the featured photo from the George Brace collection with his two son, George and Paul,

Posted on: February 28, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 2 Comments

New Blog Topic: WHERE HAVE ALL THE GREAT BASEBALL NICKNAMES GONE?

Here we see "Double-X" teasing "The Splendid Splinter" about his scrawny biceps. There was a time when many baseball players had colorful nicknames that followed them their entire careers. Some of them weren't exactly flattering, but they stuck.

Posted on: February 27, 2021
By: Bill Gutman
With: 18 Comments

Ted “Double Duty” Radcliffe: A Great Negro League Ballplayer NOT in the Hall of Fame

As we near the close of this year's Black History Month, I thought this might be a good time to salute Ted "Double-Duty" Radcliffe...

Posted on: February 25, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 3 Comments

New Blog Topic: “Who is the Mystery Person”?

Check out this neat color photo of Willie Mays’ great catch in the 1954 World Series off the bat of Vic Wertz. It's from Game One, played at the Polo Grounds on September 28, 1954...

Posted on: February 24, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 14 Comments

Stan Williams, RIP

“I don’t like the Dodgers, and they don’t like me. They have completely divorced me over the years, and I pull against them every night.’’ –Ex-Dodger, Stan Williams...

Posted on: February 22, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 18 Comments

New Blog Topic: WHAT GAME ARE WE WATCHING?

For longtime baseball fans like us, the game has always meant a great deal and we've been watching it for as long as we can remember...

Posted on: February 22, 2021
By: Bill Gutman
With: 12 Comments

The Original Wrigley Field Scoreboard, October 4, 1935

The featured photo above was taken during the 1935 World Series between the Tigers and Cubs.

Posted on: February 21, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 2 Comments

THE AMAZING STORY OF REX BARNEY

“I should have been up there with the greats. I should have gone right up the ladder, but too many rungs were missing.” -Rex Barney

Posted on: February 21, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 8 Comments

“Owners Aren’t Angels”: The Story of the 1943 Phillies

"If there is a 'jerk' connected with the Phillies, it is William D. Cox, president of the baseball club...and he's an all-American jerk!"...

Posted on: February 19, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 10 Comments

New Blog Topic: THE MUSIC OF BASEBALL, PART TWO

It started when I wrote a blog about baseball’s National Anthem, “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” I followed it with another blog, highlighting the Music of Baseball, four classic tunes about our great game...

Posted on: February 18, 2021
By: Bill Gutman
With: 7 Comments

New Blog Topic: Let’s Have Some Fun on President’s Day, 2021

Since I’m always looking for ways to connect baseball history with national holidays, the thought occurred to me that maybe we could have some fun even with Presidents’ day...

Posted on: February 15, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 11 Comments

The Confusing History of Baseball In Washington, D.C.!

My post the other day about Hall-of-Famer Bucky Harris led to the usual confusion about the Washington franchise...

Posted on: February 14, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 13 Comments

New Blog Topic: MLB CONTINUES TO POISON REAL BASEBALL

As Yogi would say, it's deja view all over again. Another season is arriving and we will be presented with a game that is called baseball, but one that is increasingly foreign to longtime fans...

Posted on: February 13, 2021
By: Bill Gutman
With: 21 Comments

Let’s Remember the “Boy Wonder,” Hall-of-Famer Bucky Harris

“If you can't play for Bucky Harris, you don't belong in the major leagues." -Joe DiMaggio...

Posted on: February 12, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 2 Comments

New Blog Topic: Thoughts About Leo, Jackie, and Willie

It’s really a shame Leo Durocher wasn’t around to run interference for Jackie Robinson in 1947...

Posted on: February 11, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 7 Comments

New Blog Topic: Records that Will Never Be Broken

To most longtime fans, baseball is still the greatest game every invented. Not only do we relish what happens between the lines, but we've always loved the numbers – the stats and the records...

Posted on: February 8, 2021
By: Bill Gutman
With: 12 Comments

Ballplayers and Their Children, Part I

Today, I’m reintroducing a series I started a few years ago, which at the time I called Ballplayers and their Children.

Posted on: February 6, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 2 Comments

New Blog Topic: MLB VS. THE PLAYERS’ ASSOCIATION

I don't think any of you will dispute the fact that baseball today is just as much – or maybe more – about the money as it is about the game on the field...

Posted on: February 4, 2021
By: Bill Gutman
With: 6 Comments

NEW HALL OF FAME POLL QUESTION

The recent Hall of Fame voting for the 2021 Class resulted in no player reaching the 75 percent of the vote needed for induction...

Posted on: February 3, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 19 Comments

The Beautiful Color Restorations of Chris Whitehouse

Those of us who frequent baseball history web sites know that there are a few very talented baseball artists out there...

Posted on: February 2, 2021
By: Gary Livacari
With: 3 Comments