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Checking In on the MVP RacesThere seemed to be a Twitter kerfuffle on Sunday — a kerfuffle being the lowest level of heat on Twitter — about the American League MVP award. Bob Nightengale put up a tweet about … well, let’s just show it: Now, no offense to Bob, but I literally have no idea who he was aiming…
Ten Who Missed: No. 2, Jim PalmerHappy Friday! We’re closing in on the big finish to the “Ten Who Missed” series — a companion to The Baseball 100, Today, we’re all the way up to No. 2 — I think you’ll like this one a lot — which means the series will finish up next Friday. Here is the list of essays so far:
Let's Make the National Pastime More... NationalThis is going to be about Tuesday night’s battle of aces between Chicago’s Dylan Cease and Houston’s Justin Verlander, but first, let’s talk for a couple of moments about the Field of Dreams II game played a few days ago in the Iowa corn. I’d say the results were mixed. We’ll…
Rabbit Hole: The Drysdale StoryOK, so a few days ago I shared a story about Don Drysdale. I read the story in Mike Shannon’s Tales from the Dugout — this is the author Mike Shannon not the ballplayer and announcer — and he saw the story in a Lou Brock interview. The story goes that Drysdale was facing St…
