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Michael Kelley played only briefly in one major league season. Despite this lack of major league success he was a highly respected minor league player and manager. However, he found himself in extremely hot water with Organized Baseball for three years, starting in 1905. From being a part of a sham sale of the St. […]

JULY 2, 2018 — While I was somewhat oblivious to it at the time, my baseball career began to change in the summer of 1960. I was in my third year working as an administrative assistant for the Cincinnati Reds, in what was then a three-person farm department. My contact with Gabe Paul was somewhat […]

A star among stars, Jackie Robinson had an excellent batting record in six career All-Star appearances. The influx of Robinson and other African-American stalwarts for the National League helped reverse the course of the series. Prior to integration, the American League won nine of the first 13 contests. Surprisingly, Robinson played in neither the 1947 […]

“Something about Canada seemed to agree with him … on an intriguing psychological level. He spent years telling people all sorts of odd fibs about his supposed Canadian connections.” — David Giddens, CBC Sports1   In support of the Canadian war effort, Ruth flew to Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the summer of 1942 to take […]

Here is the appendix for Pete Palmer’s article “Stolen Bases and Caught Stealing by Catchers” in the Spring 2014 Baseball Research Journal.

Jackie Robinson’s major-league debut was more than just the first step in righting an historical wrong. It was a crucial event in the history of the American civil rights movement, the importance of which went far beyond the insular world of baseball. Jackie Robinson’s major-league debut was more than just the first step in righting […]

The Oakland A’s were the pride of the American League West as winter turned to spring in 1972. The 1971 A’s had become just the second team to win the Western title, after the Minnesota Twins claimed the honor in the first two seasons following the adoption of divisional play in 1969. But the A’s […]

  Twelve-year-old Billy Heywood has a dream job in Little Big League. Or so he thinks. Billy’s grandfather, Thomas Heywood, owns the Minnesota Twins in this 1994 film. When Thomas dies, Billy inherits the team, fires the volatile manager, persuades the Twins front office to let him take the job, confronts disrespect from players who […]

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 […]

From SABR member Frank Jackson at The Hardball Times on August 18, 2015: Connie Mack died in 1956 at the age of 93. Though I was only 6 years old, I certainly knew who he was. My grandfather was a lifelong A’s fan, so he revered Mack as something close to a demigod. The A’s transfer […]