
A Man of Many Faucets, All Running at Once: Books by and about Branch Rickey
Lee Lowenfish. Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman.…

Educated Yelling: The Portrait of a Heckler
Creative heckling is one of the more interesting features of…

Jack Kerouac: The Beat of Fantasy Baseball
Before achieving fame as a leading literary voice of the Beat…

The Deaf and the Origin of Hand Signals in Baseball
Dummy Hoy taught his teammates sign language, which they began…

British Baseball: How a Curious Version of the Game Survives in Parts of England and Wales
A young man anxiously takes grip of a heavily taped bat that…

Henry Chadwick: The ‘Father of Baseball’ was a Sportswriter
In the fall of 1856, a New York Times cricket journalist spotted…


Analyzing Grand Old Images: A Close Look at Two Photos from the Deadball Era
Joe Wallace’s Grand Old Game: 365 Days of Baseball is a cleverly…

The 1924 Junior World Series: The St. Paul Saints’ Magnificent Comeback
By 1920 the idea of matching two high-minor-league teams in a…

Anson in Greasepaint: The Vaudeville Career of Adrian C. Anson
Overture
Adrian C. Anson’s professional baseball career came…

Farmer Hal from Yoncalla: Hal Turpin of the Pacific Coast League
In 1994, Dave Eskenazi traveled to Yoncalla, Oregon, to visit…

I Never Get Back: How “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” Succeeds in Celebrating Failure
In this centennial year of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,”…

Burleigh Grimes and the 1912 Eau Claire Commissioners
Ask any resident of Eau Claire if any Hall of Fame baseball players…

The “Little World Series” of 1922: The Most Heartbreaking Loss in St. Louis Baseball History
“How about the Browns?” “Have they really a chance?”
“Do…

A Bitter Rivalry Recalled: The Cleveland Indians and the New York Yankees, 1947–1956
The late Ed Linn, coauthor of Veeck—As in Wreck, later wrote…

Ed Barrow, the Federal League, and the Union League
Hall of Fame executive Ed Barrow secured his legacy during his…

They Served with Valor: Negro League Ballplayers in the Armed Forces during World War II
In 1944, three years before he broke Major League Baseball’s…

Ace: The Jake Jones Story
"One thing I can’t go for is any “hero” stuff. I know I…

But the Polo Grounds Belonged to the Giants: An Interview With Bobby Thomson
Tom Harris interviewed Bobby Thomson at his home in New Jersey…

Did the Federal League Have a Reserve Clause?
Its defiance of the reserve clause for two brief but eventful…

Ten Days in August: A Last Chance for Brooklyn?
Hard as it may be to believe, the Brooklyn Dodgers have been…