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Throwback Thursday (Massive links dump, continued)

April 30, 2015

Since I posted the first of these on a Thursday, which is known on social media as a time of reflection, I thought to make it a regular thing under this rubric. These are kind of fun; it’s like a box of chocolates — you never know what you’re gonna get. (Actually, I never understood […]

Tagged as: Alex Rodriguez, baseball movies, baseball photography, baseball statistics, baseball stats, Derek Jeter, Doug Glanville, Jews and baseball, John Montgomery Ward, Marty Noble

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Literary birthday greetings: Wee Willie and Monte

March 3, 2011

Celebrating a couple of 19th-century Hall of Famers today. Wee Willie Keeler was born this date in 1872. He was a prominent member of John McGraw’s first group of rowdies as described by Burt Solomon in Where They Ain’t: The Fabled Life and Untimely Death of the Original Baltimore Orioles, the Team That Gave Birth […]

Tagged as: John Montgomery Ward, Wee Willie Keeler, Willie Keeler

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