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The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day … you know the rest, don’t you?
Last week we revisited 1908, the year of The Merkle Game, to write about “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” Oddly — for like Merkle and all his confrères, “Casey at the B...
I wrote this for Douglas Alden’s year-long project on 1927 ten years ago to the day of its republication at Our Game.
Tris Speaker and Ty Cobb in their heydayAs we read about Myles Thomas and the ’27 Yankees playing the Detroit Tigers without Ty Cobb — and the Philadelphia Athletics with Cobb i...
Only last week we regaled you with the Merkle Game and its aftermath, by no means the only notable baseball event that year. The Mills Commission had announced in March that Abner Doubleday was baseball’s inventor, an idea that eventually fell into disfavor with scholars and within MLB.
May 2, 1908 pr...
Baseball players have a hard life. Not superstars, I’m saying, but regular players, journeymen. They deal with continuous uncertainty. And these uncertainties are both separate and intertwined. Will my skills maintain and maybe improve? Can I go injury-free this season? W...
This week’s header references 1908 because it is distant, and because Fred Merkle’s blunder is somehow still famous. But the year could be 1889, or 1912, or 1941, or 1986 … or last year. Reflect upon how close Toronto came to victory, in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 7 in the World Series, with the b...