The National Pastime: Baseball in the Land of 10,000 Lakes

Editor’s Note: The National Pastime 2024

In late March of each year as the MLB season opens, I…

The First Pennant for Minneapolis

Even though Minneapolis had been home to a professional club…

A ‘Peaceful War of Baseball’: University of Minnesota Beats Waseda University, 3–2, in 15 Innings, May 26, 1911

In 1905, Tokyo’s Waseda University became the first Japanese…

Rube Foster’s Canadian Farm Teams

  Veteran right-handed pitcher Frank Wickware posted…

100 Years Since Local Franchise’s First World Title: 1924 Washington Senators

Lefty George Mogridge entered Game Seven of the 1924 World…

Spencer Harris: A Decade of Minor-League Greatness in Minneapolis

Forty years ago, the Society for American Baseball Research…
Dave Bancroft (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS)
Hal Trosky

Hal Trosky: A Norway, Iowa, Boy Makes Good in the Major Leagues

On a long, lonesome highway east of Omaha lies Norway, Iowa,…

The Nights The Lights Went On In The Twin Cities

Installing the lights at Lexington Park, St. Paul, in May 1937.…

Minneapolis Millerettes

As late as the 1980s, the softball/baseball Minneapolis Millerettes…

Twin Cities Rivalry Feeds New York Rivalry, 1946–57

  During the years following World War II, the minor…

The Promised Land: The Twin Cities’ Long Flirtation with Major League Baseball

In the 1950s, as the population of the United States shifted,…

Old-Fashioned Town Ball Is Flourishing in Minnesota

Most baseball fans are familiar with historian Jacques Barzun’s…
Jim Kaat (National Baseball Hall of Fame Library)

Prelude to a Pennant: Twins Baseball, 1961–64

When the Washington Senators moved to a Minnesota home As…
Rod Carew (Trading Card DB)
Sandy Koufax (SABR/The Rucker Archive)

Sandy in Minny: Honoring Him for That

When Hank Greenberg, the Detroit Tigers slugger and baseball’s…

The Glory of Our Friendship: Lawrence Ritter and Me

  I was born in a small farming town in the southwest…

Reliever Ron Perranoski: A[nother] Tale of Two Cities

  The career of left-handed reliever Ron Perranoski (1961–73)…

Red Springs: The Littlest Baseball Town in America

  Red Springs, North Carolina, was a unique place for…
Butch Wynegar (Trading Card DB)

Butch Wynegar: From Single-A to the Major League All-Star Game in One Year

As a young boy growing up in York, Pennsylvania, Harold Wynegar…
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