Freshman Olivia Pichardo made Brown University's baseball roster as the first woman named to a Division I NCAA baseball team.
History of Baseball
You're Not Welcome Here, A top-5 selling baseball history paperback book on Barnes and Noble!
As of 10/12/2022, "You're Not Welcome Here: Exclusionary Practices in the Game of Baseball" has reached #4 out of nearly 800 books in the baseball history section of paperbacks sold on the Barnes and Noble website.
On SEPTEMBER 23, 2022 the new book "You're Not Welcome Here: Exclusionary Practices in the Game of Baseball" will be officially released.
DAVID ORTIZ ENSHRINED, BONDS AND CLEMENS ELIMINATED
The Struggle Continues
This post will be in response to the following article from Cronkite News published on January 6, 2021: 73 years after Robinson broke barrier, baseball still struggles
Who is Wilmer Aaron?
Henry (Hank) Aaron was one of the greatest players in Major League Baseball history. Born to a poor family in Mobile, Alabama with seven siblings, Hank overcame the odds and became a Hall-of-Fame player. He hit 755 home runs (a record for many years before being broken by Barry Bonds), drove in 2,297 runs (still a record as of 2020),...
Terry Whitfield is not a household name, but he was a heck of a hitter in the Major Leagues and the Japanese Pacific League for most of the 1970s and 1980s. Terry's career batting average in the MLB was .281, in the Minors it was .286 and in Japan it was .289. He was never a superstar in the States,...
My first full-time high school coaching job was with a school called Crawford High School in San Diego. Crawford had once been one of the traditional powers of the old city league decades before, but had long since fallen upon hard times as a baseball program. More than 15 years have passed since Crawford had a winning season, and in...
In the 1990s there was a team called the Colorado Silver Bullets, they were sponsored by a beer company and played against amateur all-star teams and semi-pro teams. At first they did not enjoy much success, but after a few years they were able to put together a winning record before losing their sponsorship and folding. The team was...
Major League Baseball has finally decided that players from the Negro Leagues should be considered Major Leaguers. All 3,400 players - from 1920 to 1948 - will be elevated to MLB status.