Of all of the ways baseball in Washington has gone off the rails since its return, perhaps none sadder has been the manner in which Nationals’ management has failed to embrace the history of both their franchise, and that of baseball in the city at large. That there is scant if any evidence that this […]

Who’s No. 1? It’s Strange.

Fire. The wheel. Tim Laudner.

How did The Mahatma go about cleaning up the mess of his own making?

A look at occasions when important real life events and famous baseball moments happened at the same time.

April 1 was April Fool’s Day. Richard did not pull any big pranks, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some good ones in baseball history.

Last year the San Francisco Chronicle’s Bruce Jenkins ran a two-part piece in which he argued that teams should put more thought into their pitch counts, developing evaluation systems and protocols to determine when a pitcher is truly getting tired rather than simply impose a hard number of pitches on everyone. That’s actually a pretty […]

As an art historian might say when discovering Michelangelo’s unfortunate “Dogs Playing Poker” period … what was that all about?

The second half of John’s investigations of batsmen grounding into double plays, including the best and worst rally-killers of the last half century.

It’s year one for Mister Rickey in Pittsburgh. What kind of a start does he pull off?