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T’rowback Tuesday for St. Patrick’s Day

March 16, 2026

As a partner to “Throwback Thursday”… In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, I hauled out this article I wrote for Irish America magazine some 13 years ago on the influence that community had on the national pastime. Irish ballplayers have helped to shape baseball ever since the game took its first foundering steps on the playing fields […]

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Erin go ball

March 17, 2014

(And I hope that doesn’t mean anything dirty or inappropriate in Gaelic.) In honor of St.Patrick’s Day, I offer two Irish-themed pieces I’ve done: A review on Bookreporter.com of Charley Rosen’s The Emerald Diamond: How the Irish Transformed America’s Greatest Pastime. “The Sporting Life,”An overview of the Irish in America’s national pastime, published in the February/March […]

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