From Casey to KC: Kevin Kane’s Unique Take on a Baseball Classic
Recently I had the pleasure of meeting Lawrence Hogan author of several books about Black American baseball. His book Shades of Glory is widely considered a baseball literary classic. Larry recommended a video that he produced featuring his friend and associate Kevin Kane. Mr. Kane is a writer, a musician and a playwright. The video…
Hogan’s Unheralded Heroes
Last Saturday I had the pleasure and privilege of meeting Dr. Lawrence D. Hogan at the Local Author Fair in the Fanwood Memorial Library. Dr. Hogan is Professor of History Emeritus from Union County College in New Jersey where he taught African American History for 37 years. He is the author of A Black National…
The Greatest World Series Game Ever?
Now that we’ve had a little time to reflect on Saturday night’s classic World Series game, I can now say that the LA Dodgers 5-4 win in 11 innings against the Toronto Blues Jays in game seven of the 2025 World Series was one of the greatest World Series games ever, if not the greatest.…
Big Joe, Lenny and the Wild Thing
As we get ready for tonight’s game three of the World Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers it’s a good time to take a trip back down memory lane to the last time the Blue Jays made it to the Series in 1993. In that Series, the Blue Jays against…
Shohei-the-Kid Puts on a Really Big Show
As the 2025 World Series gets ready to begin this Friday, I would like to reflect on Shohei Ohtani’s incredible performance for the L.A. Dodgers in the pennant-clinching game on Friday night. Quite simply it was the greatest performance by a single player ever in an MLB game. Period. You can look it up. The…
Orion’s Constellation of Cringe
Orion Kerkering’s horrendous blunder in the final game of the Dodgers/Phillies National League Division Series was one of the worst baseball plays I have ever seen. I really feel bad for the guy, and it was a tough night for Phillies’ fans. My guest blogger Bruce Solomon put it all in perspective. I spotted this…
Joost to Suder to Fain
By guest blogger Bruce Solomon In 1949, the Philadelphia A’s set a still-standing major-league record by turning 217 double plays. The A’s went on to accumulate a three-year total of 629 DPs, a record that stands today, even with MLB’s longer playing seasons. Most of these twin-killings involved their keystone combination of shortstop Eddie Joost…
Billy Tried it Too
While researching my last post about Jackie Robinson’s iconic steal-of-home in game one of the 1955 World Series I made a remarkable discovery. I was studying the box score of that game reprinted on BaseballAlmanac.com and was dumfounded when I read the following baserunning notes: SB-Robinson (1, Home off Ford/Berra). CS Martin (2, 2nd base…
The Steal of the Century
It was 69 years ago today that Jackie Robinson stole home for the Brooklyn Dodgers against the New York Yankees in game one of the 1955 World Series. It is a play that is this talked about and argued about to this day. And it is one of the moments in baseball history that explains…
Lou Gehrig Day Yankee Stadium, July 4, 1939
As we celebrate our nation’s Independence Day those of us who are endeared to baseball, our national pastime, also know that this date has another profound significance. It was 85 years ago this day that Lou Gehrig, the Hall-of -Fame first baseman, gave his farewell speech at Yankee Stadium sadly ending his stellar 17-year career.…
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