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 “The Mysterious Floating Sensation”
“The Mysterious Floating Sensation”
Did he or didn’t he, that’s the question. Eddie Cicotte is widely recognized as the inventor of the knuckleball, earning his nickname “Knuckles” around 1908, his first full year in the majors.
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 Sarah Palin, Joe Biden have baseball cards
Sarah Palin, Joe Biden have baseball cards
Upper Deck is at it again with new political baseball cards, this time of vice-presidential candidates, Sarah Palin & Joe Biden. According to Upper Deck, these cards will be “sprinkled” in packs of 2008 SP Authentic. From Upper ...
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 Notes From the Shadows of Cooperstown: Remembering 1988
Notes From the Shadows of Cooperstown: Remembering 1988
1988 seems to me like two light years away, instead of just two decades. After several years of indifference about baseball, I was paying attention again: my Pirates had started contending, as they hadn’t since 1979; my kids were old enough to take to games, and they were learning how to ...
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 Another Performancing Enhancing Rant
Another Performancing Enhancing Rant
Thanks to the tons of statistics and information and books and stories of the game, even though I never really saw Babe Ruth or Lou Gehrig or Ty Cobb or Walter Johnson play, I feel like I have.