A Saint and a Miller
A fictional tale about a personal rivalry between a Minneapolis player and a St. Paul player in the late 19th century.
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A fictional tale about a personal rivalry between a Minneapolis player and a St. Paul player in the late 19th century.
During the 1998-99 off-season free agent Kevin Brown signed what was at the time the most lucrative contract in baseball history. It guaranteed him just over $106 million for seven years with the opportunity to earn another $8.4 million through bonus clauses. Brown’s contract drew intense interest because of its largesse and the seeming over-indulgence […]
Editor’s note: This article appeared originally in Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Vol. 7 (McFarland & Co., 2014). The long relationship between Negro League baseball and Yankee Stadium that provided the Black leagues with both income and prestige began in 1930 when a millionaire lent his prized major league ballpark to a man who […]
“Do you feel they’ll make the big-league grade?” This question (referring to Black ballplayers) was posed to Bob Feller in October 1946. As reported in The Sporting News on October 30, 1946, Feller said without hesitation, “I have seen none who combine the qualities of a big-league ballplayer – not even Jackie Robinson.”1 Induction Day […]
This article was originally published in “St. Louis’s Favorite Sport,” the 1992 SABR convention journal. When Miller Huggins found he couldn’t own the Cardinals—or at least a good hunk of them—he opted for a job for which he had been recommended by Ban Johnson, the founder of the American League, and endorsed by J. […]
In February 1933 – when Jackie Robinson was 14 years old – Heywood Broun, a syndicated columnist at the New York World-Telegram, addressed the annual dinner of the all-White New York Baseball Writers Association. If Black athletes were good enough to represent the United States at the 1932 Olympic Games, Broun said, “it seems a […]
Major League Baseball has always been a for-profit business. It emerged from the Roaring Twenties and survived the Great Depression to emerge firmly entrenched as “The National Pastime,” but despite the reverence held for the game the primary objective of the owners was to fill the stadiums and keep costs to a minimum, maximizing their […]
Roy Mack affixes his signature to an agreement selling the Athletics to the Philadelphia syndicate on October 17, 1954—a commitment Roy would betray just a day later in a backroom deal with Arnold Johnson. (National Baseball Hall of Fame Library) Bill Renna was playing winter ball for the 1953–54 San Juan Senators, managed by […]
The Bresnahan-Mud Hens Chapter Baseball Book Club met Monday, February 26, 2019, to discuss the 1919 World Series scandal that involved the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds. The group read various books including: The Betrayal by Charles Fountain; SABR’s Scandal on the South Side, edited by Jacob Pomrenke; Say it Ain’t So by […]
The weather was great and the program was sparkling for the 38 members and friends who attended the Lajoie-Start Chapter (Southern New England) meeting on June 18 under a picnic tent at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Speakers from the Pawtucket Red Sox were the team’s president, Mike Tamburro; the manager, Arnie Beyeler; and […]
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