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The Halifax and District League: Postwar Baseball in the Maritimes, 1946-1960
Prince Edward Island native and H&D League alumnus Vern Handrahan with the Kansas City Athletics in 1966. (Prince Edward Island Sports Hall of Fame) The Halifax and District (H&D) Baseball League was a postwar offspring of the Second World War when Nova Scotia, and Halifax in particular, served as a major debarkation point for […]
1980 Winter Meetings: Future Hall of Famers in the Spotlight
Introduction and Context With the inauguration of free agency in 1976 and the introduction of a second interleague trading period in 1977, the baseball winter meetings had become agonizing to attend. The traditional exchange of players between teams became more limited now that players could bargain for long-term contracts and no-trade clauses. However, the 1980 […]
Lou Gorman: ‘You Don’t Win Without Good Scouts’: A GM’s Look At Scouting
As a baseball executive, Lou Gorman worked for more than a third of a century with scouts. He’d been a farm director for the Orioles and Royals, director of player development with Kansas City, and GM or assistant GM with the Mariners, Mets, and Red Sox. The Providence, Rhode Island, native was once a minor […]
Appendix 1: MLB cycles through 2017
A list of all documented cycles through the end of the 2017 MLB seasonThis is the online Appendix for Michael Huber and Allison Davidson’s article, “Origin of the Phrase ‘Hitting for the Cycle’ and An Approach to How Cycles Occur” in the Spring 2018 “Baseball Research Journal. Here is a list of all documented […]
Burleigh Grimes and the 1912 Eau Claire Commissioners
Ask any resident of Eau Claire if any Hall of Fame baseball players got their start in their Western Wisconsin city, and you will likely hear a story about Henry Aaron and his storybook 1952 season. Or you can view the bronze statue featuring the likeness of the young slugger, wearing his not so famous […]
1933 Winter Meetings: The Sell-Off
Introduction and Context Some of the best players in baseball traded places at the 1933 winter meetings. The meetings opened amid optimism, with a feeling that baseball was recovering from the Depression and could “be expected to gain steadily” as it moved forward.1 During 1933, all 14 minor leagues that began the season completed it; […]
Umpires Are Human, Too
Umpires have had their share of accidents officiating at major league games. On September 3, 1960, for example, plate umpire Larry Napp was struck three times by vicious foul strikes in a game at Baltimore. It was three times and out as he had to be carried from the field. Charlie Berry took […]