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Generally considered the first Black professional ballplayer, Bud Fowler (top row, center) spent the 1885 season with the Keokuk (Iowa) Hawkeyes. (Photo: National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum) Frederick Douglass disapproved of base ball (as the name was written in the 1860s). To the great abolitionist, who had escaped enslavement in 1838, sports — alongside […]
A lot of work goes into a Major League Baseball draft, but there’s a lot of luck, too. Scouts spend years flying across the country, driving to ballfields, shaking hands behind dugouts, and talking at kitchen tables, all for the chance to draft a specific player. Scouting reports are crosschecked, player backgrounds vetted, underlying metrics […]
I watch grown men in pajamas hit balls with sticks, and then I write about it. This is my job. It’s how I afford food and shelter. Some people are experts at cardiology or architecture or cooking or fixing automobiles, but not me. I’ve devoted my whole life to grown men in pajamas hitting balls […]
I was not taught about the Negro Leagues growing up. Not early on, anyway. Not in school, not at home. And generally not via the media, except for the occasional obituary of a former Negro Leagues star or that time the great Satchel Paige appeared on the television game show “What’s My Line?” With the […]
Los Angeles CNN — Ippei Mizuhara, a former interpreter for baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani, faces a federal charge of bank fraud after allegedly stealing more than $16 million from Ohtani, a US attorney in Los Angeles announced Thursday. Mizuhara made unauthorized transfers from Ohtani’s bank account from November 2021 until January 2024, US Attorney Martin […]
This month, we’re watching “The League,” which is available to stream on Hulu, with a subscription. You can also rent or buy the film on several platforms. Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, but he wasn’t the . . .
Matthew DeSantis knew he had a good shot. DeSantis, the co-founder of the Bhutan Baseball and Softball Association, took a look through the viewfinder, where members of the Thimphu Red Pandas — the first baseball club in the country — were playing in front of Bhutan’s famous Buddha Dordenma statue. As the fog rolled in […]
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