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- The Cheap Seats: A Note from the Editor
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Abstract: One of the challenges of writing the introduction for each issue is that what I write isn't going to be read for another nine months or so. Such is the struggle when a journal comes out twice a year. So I sit here now, just a few weeks removed from the Houston Astros winning the World Series over the Philadelphia Phillies, trying to anticipate what might happen in the 2023 season. But I'm having a hard time doing that when I'm still wrapping my head around the Dodgers, who led the majors with 111 wins during the regular season, losing in the National League Divisional Series 3–1 to the San Diego Padres. And then there's the fact that the National League Championship Series was played between a fifth seed (Padres) ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Diamond Quotes
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Abstract: "You can't be afraid to make errors. No one ever masters baseball or conquers it. You only challenge it.""Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbers go for base hits. It's an unfair game.""You know I signed with the Milwaukee Brewers for $3000. That bothered my dad at the time because he didn't have that kind of dough to pay out. But eventually he scraped it up.""I couldn't see well enough to play when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job—they made me the umpire.""Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.""Uniforms change, but friendships don't.""The only real game in the world, I think, is baseball.""Take time to thank everyone who ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Loved It: Ball Four
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Abstract: The 1968 publication of Jerry Kramer's Instant Reply opened the door to the locker room of one of most storied teams in sports history, and the portrait he painted furnished fans with a view to what became the concluding year of coach Vince Lombardi's tenure at the helm of the Green Bay Packers. This send-off, as it were, was climaxed by the team's victory in Super Bowl II, and the diary Kramer maintained details the grueling regimen of life under Lombardi's rule during the 1967 season. Readers of his book gain a full appreciation of how championships were forged in a small city that took on the quaint appellation of "Titletown" due to the team's dominant success in that decade.In Kramer's telling, that year's ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Loathed It: Ball Four
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Abstract: Blasphemers are valuable members of society. Nearly every major revolution in the history of the world has been started by someone who challenged widely accepted dogma. I don't claim to be Martin Luther nailing his 95 Theses to the church door in Wittenberg, but I do think it's time everyone stopped genuflecting before Jim Bouton and Ball Four.Some people, including Commissioner Bowie Kuhn and veteran columnist Dick Young, didn't like the book from the moment the first excerpts appeared; Young famously referred to Bouton as a "social leper."1 That was to be expected, for Kuhn viewed himself as the guardian of baseball's morals, while Young was a brash young writer who'd become a crotchety old defender of the ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Major League Baseball Seized Control of the Minor Leagues: What Happened,
What's Happening Now, and What it Means for Players, Fans, Owners, and
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Abstract: It began with lies and misrepresentations. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred addressed the assembled media near the end of the owner's meetings in Arlington, Texas in November of 2019. Visibly irritated, Manfred laid out MLB's case for drastic cuts in Minor League Baseball, reducing the number of teams affiliated with the major leagues from 160 to 120. He listed four major concerns: inadequate facilities; seventy-seven franchises that have moved since 1990, making for untenable travel; poor pay for minor leaguers; and drafting and signing players who don't have a realistic opportunity to make it to the big leagues.1Addressing what he termed "untenable travel," Manfred stated that minor league players were enduring "bus ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Much Ado About Profanity: The 1898 Brush Resolution
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Abstract: The 1890s was by far the most turbulent decade in Major League Baseball history, there being "scarcely an issue of The Sporting News that did not tell of kicking and wrangling with umpires, fights among players, indecent language, and incidents of rowdyism in general."1 By 1895, things were out of hand, National League President Nick Young admitting the "disgraceful scenes" were "worse than ever before known in League history"; esteemed sportswriter Henry Chadwick thought "painfully conspicuous Hoodlumism" and "blackguard language" were responsible for "the decided falling off in the attendance of the best class of patrons."2 Instructing umpires to eject instead of fining players did not curtail the rowdy play and ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
- The Sovereign's Orb: Baseball as Metaphor in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
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Abstract: The year is 2369 and baseball as it once existed is no more. The major leagues are gone, taking with them the minors. In fact, there is no professional baseball of any kind back on Earth. The last World Series was played in 2042 with only 300 spectators in attendance. The London Kings emerged victorious due to a game-winning homerun blasted by baseball's last superstar, Harmon "Buck" Bokai. He, too, slipped into obscurity.Enter Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks), a Starfleet officer who is assigned command—against his wishes—of the Cardassian-built ore-mining space station Deep Space Nine (the station hereafter referred to as DS9) located in the farthest reaches of the Alpha Quadrant, lightyears from Earth. The ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
- "A Year Probably Never Before Equaled . . .": The Klein Chocolate Company
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Abstract: In the spring and summer of 1919, a semipro company baseball team known as the Klein Chocolate Company Team took local baseball fans in southcentral Pennsylvania on a wild and unforgettable inaugural run of success, culminating in an unheard of nine-game run against major league talent. Today it's almost unthinkable to imagine major league owners or managers allowing their rosters to go up against minor leaguers, semipros, or local amateurs, but back in 1919 it was just another aspect of the game. To understand the Klein Chocolate Company Team (often referred to as the "Lunch Bars" or the "Chocolatiers" in the local media), one must first understand the story of their industrial patrons William and Frederick Klein ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
- In Memoriam: The California League, 1879–2020
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Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic triggered North America's greatest upheaval in the structure of professional baseball in more than a century. The disruption was even greater than that of World War II. In that instance, zero major league championship games were cancelled, and though most minor leagues suspended play, the few strongest endured the war and with them, the minor league framework survived. It was not so through this most recent calamity.Following the complete cancellation of the 2020 minor league season, for 2021 the minor league organizational architecture itself, in place continuously since 1903, was blithely scrapped. Replacing it were blandly named, colorless, vassal leagues, stripped of any identity beyond ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
- The 1880 Natick Boarding House Nine
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Abstract: In mid-June 1880, a small hotel in the town of Natick, Massachusetts had nine "base ballists" living there as boarders. They were all members of the Natick Base Ball Club, a minor professional team active May through July. No fewer than seven of these men also played Major League Baseball, as did two others on the team earlier and later that year. One member has been honored by the Baseball Hall of Fame, though not for his Natick exploits.This article introduces the players, then explains the unusual circumstance of an entire team staying at the same boarding house. Next, the article describes the Natick's 1880 season and the careers of the major leaguers, providing a window to the operation of "minor league" teams ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
- A Legend Like No Other: Yankees Shortstop Turned CIA Operative
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Abstract: Tom Carroll is the only major league player to earn a World Series ring and the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) Intelligence Medal of Merit. In 1955, the eighteen-year-old University of Notre Dame sophomore from Queens made headlines as a "Bonus Baby," signing with the New York Yankees for a whopping $50,000.1 Teammates included Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Don Larsen, Phil Rizzuto, Eddie Robinson (who died at age 100 in October 2021), and the affable catcher-philosopher Yogi Berra, who earned a record ten World Series rings as a Yankees player.Tom Carroll's 1956 Topps baseball cardIn 1956, Carroll became the youngest major leaguer to earn a World Series title when the Yankees defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers 4–3 ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Baseball's Best Ever: A Half Century of Covering Hall of Famers by Ira
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Abstract: As a sportswriter reading Ira Berkow's collected work in Baseball's Best Ever: A Half Century of Covering Hall of Famers, I became painfully aware of how inadequate my offerings are.Berkow is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and he proves it with each selection in this book. The collection is divided into thirteen parts starting with topics dating back to 1903 and continuing through the present. A sports columnist and reporter, primarily for the New York Times, Berkow is a wordsmith without parallel.Players, managers, sportscasters, sports writers, and those who had an effect on baseball without ever playing the game, like Marvin Miller, are profiled. Each story provides an in-depth look at these greats of the ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Coming Home: My Amazin' Life with the New York by Cleon Jones (review)
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Abstract: When I was offered the chance to read Cleon Jones's autobiography and review it for NINE, I jumped at it. I wrote my master's thesis on pro- and anti-war demonstrations in New York City in 1969, using the Mets' World Series victory as a context in which to discuss the historical events. I was looking forward to reading what Jones's perspective was on the war at the time, completely forgetting that his life encompassed so much more than the Mets' World Series victory over the Baltimore Orioles in 1969. While I reminded myself that Jones had a long and respectable career, I was not expecting to read about a life that was so humble, so illustrious, so historical, and so moving. What I took away most from Jones's ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
- The Umpire is Out: Calling the Game and Living My True Self by Dale Scott
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Abstract: Nutcutter, polebender, banger, wacker, honeymoon series, strapping it on, and working the stick. Shit series, cockshot, caught the edge, shithouse. Dale Scott's autobiography begins with an entertaining chapter that functions as a preparatory glossary for the rest of the book, which is told in a breezy, entertaining way as though the author is seated with you in a restaurant booth telling (mostly) baseball stories. It is entertaining and readable while also giving you an authentic and revealing tour of life as a major league umpire and as a closeted (until 2014) gay man in American sports.Dale Scott is the first major league umpire to come out as gay during his career and one of only two MLB on-field figures to do ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Classic Baseball: Timeless Tales, Immortal Moments by John Rosengren
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Abstract: There are some books you wish would continue beyond the last chapter. John Rosengren's short anthology Classic Baseball is one of them. A member of the Society for American Baseball Research and a writer on baseball for numerous publications, Rosengren has culled a number of his baseball articles for this book, which is divided into seven chapters with selections dating back two decades, but most of them are of recent origin.Being from Minnesota and consequently a Twins fan from his earliest years, the articles are heavily weighted in that direction, inclusive of some of his favorite ballplayers. For instance, in the chapter "Personalities," there is a nice piece on Tony Oliva who rose from poverty in Cuba to ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe by David Maraniss (review)
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Abstract: This biography of Jim Thorpe is an enlightening examination of the famous athlete who had to endure a lifetime of severe prejudice against Native Americans within American society during the first half of the twentieth century. Of particular interest to this journal's readership, Maraniss delves deeply into Thorpe's lesser-known baseball career, which serves as a springboard for the author's fresh perspective of Thorpe's inner character.The broad outline of Thorpe's sporting life is well known to avid readers of sports history. He attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School where he catapulted to fame as an All-American college football player and Olympic decathlon gold medalist, was summarily stripped of his ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Lefty & Tim: How Steve Carlton and Tim McCarver Became Baseball's Best
Battery by William C. Kashatus (review)-
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Abstract: Throughout the mid-to late 1970s there wasn't a more visible tandem in baseball than "Lefty and Tim." The 1940s had "Spahn and Sain," the '60s had "Mantle and Maris," and the '80s would have "Whitaker and Trammell." But the 1970s belonged to "Lefty and Tim," the subject of William Kashatus's new book on the pitcher-catcher duo of Steve Carlton and Tim McCarver. They were a fascinating pair—one refused to talk while the other seemed to never shut up. One was a silky-smooth Hall of Famer while the other was a stocky baseball workingman. One may very well have been bananas, and the other had his feet firmly on the ground such that after baseball he'd become one of the most insightful and articulate game analysts ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Get Up, Baby!: My Seven Decades with the St. Louis Cardinals by Mike
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Abstract: If longevity alone were a measure of greatness, Mike Shannon's sixty-four-year tenure as a minor league player, major league player, and radio broadcaster would put him in rarified company on that criterion alone. There are more dimensions to greatness, just as there is much more to Mike Shannon as legions of line-time fans in Cardinals Nation would attest. Those myriad, multifaceted elements are illustrated in Shannon's autobiography Get Up, Baby!, as told to Rick Hummels, whose own impressive fifty-year career covering baseball for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch makes him a fine composition partner for Mike the "Moon Man." Shannon's nickname is just one of the one of the many inside details that will entertain ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
- The Line Up: Ten Books that Changed Baseball by Paul Aron (review)
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Abstract: Paul Aron starts off his monograph with a pretty substantial claim: "Here are ten books that changed America" (1). He then proceeds to back up this admittedly audacious statement by detailing the "influence" of the selected individual works and how they helped reshaped the American social landscape. All ten works are indeed important, and Aron then proceeds to provide readers with what can be called a "runners up" listing of fifty works that could have been included in a much longer tome.Does this reviewer agree with every single book listed in the top ten and the "nearly as important" further fifty' No, but that is not really the point of this work. Aron's proposal was to select ten works on baseball that not only ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Willie Horton: 23: Detroit's Own Willie the Wonder, the Tigers' First
Black Great by Willie Horton (review)-
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Abstract: When four American League teams vied for the right to play in the 1967 World Series, one of those clubs, the Detroit Tigers, fell short but would go on the following year to capture the Fall Classic by overcoming a three-games-to-one deficit against the St. Louis Cardinals. Members of that squad are fondly recalled in Willie Horton: 23: Detroit's Own Willie the Wonder, the Tigers' First Black Great, and Horton, along with co-author Kevin Allen, have crafted a narrative devoid of any academic pretense—there are no endnotes or bibliography, but one wishes that an index had been created as well as an appendix of Horton's career statistics. In publishing his life story, Horton has invited readers to pull up a chair so ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Intentional Balk: Baseball's Thin Line Between Innovation and Cheating by
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Abstract: Dan Levitt and Mark Armour, who have previously collaborated on two outstanding books on the building of winning Major League Baseball franchises, have turned their powers of fresh and thoughtful observations, added tremendous research, and combined it with excellent writing to produce an engaging take on an interesting thesis—when does innovation create an opportunity to cheat and gain an advantage over your opponent' Even though the origin of baseball has spawned many theories and explanations, one thing is certain—players and management have consistently cheated or, at a minimum, pushed beyond the outer limits of the "rules" (both official and unwritten) to gain an edge over an opponent. Some "cheating" is ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Last Time Out; Big League Farewells of Baseball's Greats by John Nogoski
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Abstract: Attend any Major League Baseball game in any city, and you'll find fans wearing jerseys of not only current stars, but legends as well. Having grown up near Cincinnati, Ohio, I can remember seeing jerseys of the Big Red Machine: Johnny Bench, Pete Rose, Dave Concepcion, and Tony Perez. We put our stars on pedestals, not for their off-field lives, but for the way they played the game. They were as close to being gods as any human could imagine. However, as I look back at some of my Reds heroes, I can recall how their names and fanfare started fading away year after year. They were replaced by younger, faster, and stronger players. In John Nogoski's book, Last Time Out; Big League Farewells of Baseball's Greats, he ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Sho-Time: The Inside Story of Shohei Ohtani and the Greatest Baseball
Season Ever Played by Jeff Fletcher (review)-
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Abstract: Shohei Ohtani may be the best player that we will see in our lifetimes. He is an All-Star pitcher and hitter. In other words, we may think of him as two All-Star players in one body. Who else in our lifetime will throw a 100-mph fastball as a regular starting pitcher and also hit a baseball 513 feet' Jeff Fletcher's book provides a delightful review of Ohtani's greatness from his early playing days in Japan to his tumultuous beginnings in MLB and through his historic 2021 season. Manager Joe Maddon wrote the foreword for the book, describing Ohtani as having a joy for the game and thriving on the competition: "He does not like to lose. At the same time, he is humble, polite, and kind" (xi). Maddon continues, "When ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Pinnacle on the Mound: Cy Young Award Winners Talk Baseball by Doug Wedge
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Abstract: "Undoubtedly, observing a master at work provides insights. By no means does it guarantee a replication of success . . . but studying these masters and how they approach their craft can help inform others. An idea or an approach that has worked effectively for one. Ay work just as effectively for someone else" (ix).In his book Pinnacle on the Mound, Doug Wedge takes the reader on a journey into the lives, careers, and personalities of ten of the best pitchers to ever play the game of baseball. Wedge takes a qualitative inquiry into several aspects that have contributed to the successes of these players. Although these Cy Young Award winners all had different styles and played in different eras, they were able to ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Bat Kid by Inoue Kazuo (review)
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Abstract: When first opening Bat Kid, readers will immediately be captivated by the drawing on the first page. Nagai Batto jumps off the page and holds hands with two kids who look just as animated as he appears. Above this sketch is a note from the original author, Inoue Kazuo, declaring that he has "put [his] heart and soul into drawing the manga you hold in your hands" and he hopes that "you and bat kid become the best of friends!" (1). Via this playful, vibrant, and lighthearted manga, Kazuo brings to life Batto's short yet positively delightful story, and it's indeed difficult not to get invested in his journey. Although the story is focused on the bat kid's growth as a baseball player, the manga is a great learning ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Playing Through the Pain: Ken Caminiti and the Steroids Confession that
Changed Baseball Forever by Dan Good (review)-
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Abstract: Oftentimes, when starting a sports biography, readers find themselves identifying with a character and hoping for a positive ending for a heroic figure. Baseball fans from the late 1980s to the early 2000s will immediately remember Ken Caminiti, but his story is one of immense physical talent, legendary competitiveness, and demons that haunted him for years. Rather than finding a happy ending to this story, fans are instead taken on a journey that they already know will end tragically, a story made even sadder when they see the third baseman's career end and his life spiral downward.When reading Dan Good's biography of the tortured Caminiti, most often identified with the Houston Astros and the San Diego Padres ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-05T00:00:00-05:00
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