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Category Archives: Scott Fendley
The Spitter History Project: UNION! (Association, that is) – 1884
UNION! (Association, as it were.) (A/K/A Clusterflop)
Read moreThe Spitter History Project: The AA Cometh, 1882-1883
Hello American Association. No, not that one.
Read moreThe Spitter History Project: The National League Begins: 1876-1881
The National (kinda) League Begins and Almost Ends.
Read moreThe Spitter History Project: The National Association
The National Association Lives (and Dies)
Read moreThe Spitter History Project: Introduction: In the Beginning, People Played Games
If you haven’t really read a lot by John Thorn, this may surprise you. But everything you think you know about the origins of baseball is wrong.
Read moreThe Most Disappointing Team in 2016…The Minnesota Twins
Plenty of teams fell short in 2016, but nobody fell as short of expectations than did the Twins.
Read moreConfessions of a Lapsed Cubs Fan
Advertisements I’m a little ambivalent about this World Series. I love a good underdog story, and there are no two franchises more under-doggy than the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago Cubs. Their heydays were early in the 20th century, the Cubs in the first decade or so, and the Indians as soon as they stole Tris Speaker from the Red
Read moreThere’s No Tying in Baseball! Oh, Wait, Yes, Yes There Is…
Baseball, you’d think, would also not have tie games, thanks to extra innings and all. You’d think wrong. But there’s a reason why.
Read morePost-Season Baseball Twitter: Better Than TV?
The wife (now I can say that) and I cut the cable cord a while ago, and we were saving for our wedding so paying for anything except Netflix and Hulu were out.
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