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This article was originally published in SABR’s The National Pastime, No. 2 (1983). Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century. — Mark Twain . . . social inequality … means that in all the relations that […]

Probably almost everyone has heard of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) thanks to the movie A League of Their Own. Of course, the film did not deal with other professional leagues or an international girls’ baseball league. The idea for an international league was first proposed by Arthur Meyerhoff, a Philip K. Wrigley […]

Jackie Robinson, United States Army. (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)   The course of history can flip on a dime, the course of one’s life often defined by a series of watershed flash-points. Some we control; others are thrust upon us. On December 7, 1941, Jackie Robinson was two days into his journey from […]

Since the Washington Senators moved to Minnesota in 1961, the team has boasted many stars, including several of the greatest players in the game. Minnesotans have embraced these players differently, highlighting the changing nature of our complicated relationship with our sports heroes.

A slide of a black-and-white, full-length photograph of Chuck Cottier (foreground) swinging a baseball bat in a barn at Joy Farm. Cottier is twisting to his left and is facing the camera as he swings. Standing behind him watching are Felix Mantilla (left) and Henry Aaron (right). Behind them are stacked hay bales. All three […]

A slide of a black-and-white, full-length photograph of Chuck Cottier (foreground) swinging a baseball bat in a barn at Joy Farm. Cottier is twisting to his left and is facing the camera as he swings. Standing behind him watching are Felix Mantilla (left) and Henry Aaron (right). Behind them are stacked hay bales. All three […]

A slide of a black-and-white, full-length photograph of Chuck Cottier (foreground) swinging a baseball bat in a barn at Joy Farm. Cottier is twisting to his left and is facing the camera as he swings. Standing behind him watching are Felix Mantilla (left) and Henry Aaron (right). Behind them are stacked hay bales. All three […]