I haven’t linked to Scott Simkus’ excellent blog for a while, but for those who don’t know or have forgotten, Scott does a lot — and I mean a lot — of cool historical stuff, particularly with the Negro Leagues. Today he has something fun: contemporaneous newspaper accounts of Josh Gibson’s bg hits: To follow, […]
Royals 3, Tigers 2: A lot of people experience anxiety about taking a day off work. They check their email a lot, allow themselves to be preoccupied, and generally feel as though the office can’t get by without them. This is baloney, of course. The world goes on fine without you. No one is so […]
Guest contributor Jim Anderson recounts the biggest second-half flops of the divisional era (1969-2008)
Here is some stuff that Chris would’ve put in his upcoming book Evaluating Baseball’s Managers, had he thought about it before submitting the manuscript to the publisher.