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Tales of Candlestick Park: When Tommy Lasorda Roamed Free
The news of Dodger legend Tommy Lasorda’s sad passing last January brought a remarkable flood of stories and remembrances surging through (…)
The news of Dodger legend Tommy Lasorda’s sad passing last January brought a remarkable flood of stories and remembrances surging through (…)
The historic 2020 Major League Baseball regular season ended with an exciting down-to-the-last-strike horse race in the National League and (…)
This week most Major League Baseball teams have passed the 40 game two-thirds point of this most unconventional and paradigm-changing (…)
Major League Baseball just kicked off the 2020 season and by any measure it will be highly watchable, utterly unique, and simply one of (…)
3. Picking Off Three Runners for Three Outs: The Ultimate in Theft Prevention Sometimes you find out that (…)
In the great swath of legendary MLB history and statistical oddities there are certain tales that grab us by the scruff of our necks, enter (…)
The MLB Labor Wars Part 2: Prelude to Labor-Armageddon 1990 Season – Baseball Owners (…)
Major League Baseball is working to determine just how the 2020 season, abbreviated by the COVID-19 epidemic, will be scheduled and (…)
Major League Baseball may have shut everything down just in the nick of time. On March 11, 2020 Washington Post sports columnist Thomas (…)
There is no spicier MLB blog series in the greater sports webisphere than “Playing Pepper” from the esteemed Daniel Shoptaw. By day Shoptaw (…)
For 19 years we’ve known that the infamous “Shot Heard Round the World” winning home run in the 1951 National League playoffs between (…)
When, you might wonder, was the last time the San Francisco Giants had four players on Major League Baseball’s Top 100 Prospects list? How (…)
As we move through the 2020 MLB pre-season, San Francisco Giants President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi continues to clean house (…)
The expected story-line for the 2019 MLB World Series is short, simple and brutal. The Houston Astros will mercilessly deconstruct the (…)
As Milwaukee and Washington prepare to play the NL Wild Card game later today, it’s instructive to note that few Major League post (…)
When San Francisco Giants ownership hired Farhan Zaidi to be the team’s President of Baseball Operations last off-season, the (…)
It’s usually around mid-August when the global Major League Baseball picture starts to come into sharper, more precise focus. As of August (…)
The recent MLB trade deadline is being described in terms of what the Big Three franchises did or didn’t do by July 31st. So let’s take (…)
The 2019 menu for the San Francisco Giants looked to be pretty well laid out. This season they were supposed to be standing in a cafeteria (…)
The Major League Baseball landscape in San Francisco is a contorted mishmash as we pause at the All-Star break to assess what the official (…)
No other professional sport on planet earth is more defined and illuminated by statistics than Major League Baseball. As the (…)
With the recent embarrassing outburst by demoted San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Derek Holland criticizing his team’s leadership, (…)
After the first three weeks and 20 games into the 2019 season, the San Francisco Giants appear on the surface to be a continuing model of (…)
The San Francisco Giants are definitely not rebuilding. Because a “rebuild” suggests that there was something worthwhile there in (…)
“Playing Pepper” is back. Despite the best efforts of science to stop its virulent spread, Daniel Shoptaw’s annual review of each Major (…)