Archive for the 'History' Category

Some of these guys turned out to be pretty good.

What are the highs and lows of managerial talent across MLB history?

TUCK! toons every Thursday

What teams left their old home stadiums with the best finales? Now you can find out.

As it turns out, the final regular season game of 2009 would not take place until Oct. 6, 2009—and what a game it was. But that hasn’t been enough to change Richard’s All-Decade team; today he completes the roster started last week.

Baseball’s checkered history of expansion may be the real issue in competitive balance.

I come not to praise the firing, but to analyze it.

On Sept. 27, the final week of the games for the 2009 season began. This is also, of course, the last week of games for the decade that began in 2000. Richard looks back and presents the first half of his team of the decade.

If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you know who Jack Marshall is. Lawyer, Red Sox fan, professional ethicist anti-steroid crusader and — and I mean this in the nicest way possible, Jack — outrageous pain in the neck. Pain in the neck because he routinely disturbs perfectly comfortable conventional wisdom […]