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My Favorite Historical Baseball Players

Who is my favorite historical baseball player? That’s an easy and difficult question at the same time. First of all, what do we mean by historical? Technically it could be anyone who played baseball in the past. That’s far too broad, though. It should be obvious that active players, even though they’ve played in the…

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Defensive Shifts Are Not the Problem

Jay Bruce retired from Major League Baseball thirty-four at bats into his fourteenth season. It’s always a little sad when a player retires, especially if the retirement is forced by performance or injury. In Bruce’s case, it was performance. He only had four hits in those thirty-four at bats. That’s a .118 average, much better…

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The Negro Leagues Always Were Top Tier

When news broke that Major League Baseball has officially declared the Negro Leagues to be a part of Major League Baseball, I reflexively thought, “That’s good.” Inclusion is good and I support it. It didn’t take long for my initial reaction to change to confusion. The whole reason there were Negro Leagues is because of…

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