A Lifelong Love Affair with Randy Bush
The players we fall in love with are as inexplicable as those we are attracted to or choose to spend our lives with. There’s just a spark. It just feels right. It just makes sense.
Category Archives: Baseball Memories
The Spitter History Project: 1891 -Death of the AA
The AA dies, just as it showcased probably its best team ever.
Read moreThe Spitter History Project: 1890 – The Players League (Sigh…)
The Brotherhood forms its own league, hoping to get the owners to capitulate to their demands. That worked splendidly.
Read moreThe Spitter History Project: It’s Kinda Calm Before the Storm: 1885-1889
After UNION! went bust, the NL and AA got back to business.
Read moreThe 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 moreBaseball’s Always Had An Asterisk
Advertisements I’m sick of the holier than thou b.s. around the Hall of Fame, especially after the recent selections of Pudge Rodriguez and Jeff Bagwell. There were many complicit in the Steroid Era, I won’t put this on the players or managers. The fact is that MLB was losing money and I’m basing my comments around their own Capitol Hill
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.
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