Harry Frazee, Ban Johnson and the Feud That Nearly Destroyed the American League

Rambling On About My Glory Days: From Mariano to A-Rod; World Series Thoughts
It is always sad to see the season end. I love watching the playoffs/World Series and wish they continued all winter. I would not mind if they shortened the regular season and had an extended playoff system, either. Otherwise, here are some random thoughts about this year’s World Series. Major league hitters, “Pay attention.” Earlier this year I wrote an article on how to hit White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle and it must have worked because he was not as effective post article, after his perfect game. With that in mind, I have figured out how to hit Mariano Rivera. He may be a phenomenon that we have never seen because he basically throws one pitch and everyone, including TV vi

The Battle of New York
In the early-1920s, the American League’s New York Yankees and the National League’s New York Giants competed against each other in three consecutive World Series. Here is a look at the first championship battle between the two clubs that took place in 1921. New York City normally has five boroughs but in the days leading up to the 1921 World Series, there were only two; one for Giants fans and another for the Yankee supporters. For only the second time in World Series history, two teams from the same city would wage battle for baseball supremacy. Everyone across the entire state was picking sides in what was said to be the dream of every New York baseb

Influx of Indy Hurlers in Arizona Fall League Will Keep Baseball Fans Happy After World Series
If anyone is thinking that with the World Series behind us and most free agency chatter not really in the news 24/7 yet there might be a break from baseball. Never fear, baseball-holics. In fact, there are a plethora of interesting developments for Independent Baseball fans emerging already in the fall and winter leagues. It is very impressive to see that at least five Indy pitchers, four of them with American Association roots, are in the prestigious Arizona Fall League, which only gets higher profile players since each major league organization is limited to sending six players. The presence of Aaron Crow

The Ultimate Seven-Game Fall Classic: Game One
With all due respect to the Philadelphia Phillies and grudging respect to the New York Yankees, the 2009 World Series hasn’t exactly been one for the ages. Don’t get me wrong, I commend both teams for their efforts, but the ‘09 Fall Classic had me scouring my copy of Total Baseball and navigating through baseball-reference.com for the most competitive, intriguing, historic games in World Series history in an effort to come up with something more intriguing or exciting than what I just watched. I had no predetermined criteria going into this; I simply looked at the line scores, box scores, pitching ma

Twigs For the Stove
First off, congratulations to the Yankees.  I’m not a Yankee hater, due to their tradition mainly.  I’m not big on the fact that they spent so much and won, but when you look at how often they spent a ton and lost, you can see that’s not completely the reasoning.  Besides, it’s been nine years.  While that’s not that long for a lot of teams, it does mean that there’s been plenty of other winners this decade.  Interesting that both old Yankee Stadium and the new place were christened with championships.  Of course, only one other team has done that, and we remember it well. There have been just a few small items that were Cardinal related i