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From the time of the formation of the Major Leagues to the 1960s, when it came to the control of the game of baseball the team owners held the whip hand. After the so-called "Brotherhood Strike" of 1890 and the failure of the Brotherhood of Professional Base Ball Players and its Players... Read more.
2012-04-30 08:22
The Major Leagues move west
Baseball had been in the West for almost as long as the National League and the American League had been around. It evolved into the Pacific Coast League, which included the Hollywood Stars, Los Angeles Angels, Oakland Oaks, Portland... Read more.
2012-04-30 07:04
The post-War years in baseball also witnessed the racial integration of the sport. Participation by African Americans in organized baseball had been precluded since the 1890s by formal and informal agreements, with only a few players surreptitiously being included in lineups on a... Read more.
2012-04-29 23:49
The1934 Major League Baseball All-Star Gamewas the second playing of the mid-summer classic between theall-starsof theAmerican League(AL) andNational League(NL), the two leagues comprisingMajor League Baseball. The game was held on July 10 at thePolo GroundsinNew York City, the home of... Read more.
2012-04-29 23:14
Time for another installment from your Waiver Wire Wiz. If you are anything like me, you are constantly checking the transaction reports and already know who is available in your league’s free agency pool. By now, you must have checked the current stats, projections, 2011 stats,... Read more.
2012-04-28 00:39
The 1939 elections to select inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame were the last ones conducted prior to the Hall's opening that year. Needing just one addition to complete the initial goal of 10 inductees from the 20th century, members of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) were... Read more.
2012-04-27 17:51
The 1937 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the fifth playing of the mid-summer classic between theall-stars of the American League (AL) and National League (NL), the two leagues comprising Major League Baseball. The game was held on July 7, 1937, at... Read more.
2012-04-27 17:50
It was not the Black Sox scandal by which an end was put to the dead-ball era, but by a rule change and a single player.
Some of the increased offensive output can be explained by the 1920 rule change outlawing tampering with the ball, which pitchers had often done to produce "spitballs", "shine... Read more.
2012-04-27 17:05
Drugs, baseball, and records
The lure of big money pushed players harder and harder to perform at their peaks. There is only so much conditioning that one can do to obtain an edge without inducing injury. The wearying travel schedule and 162-game season meant that amphetamines, usually in the... Read more.
2012-04-27 12:22
Background
A former Senate Majority Leader, federal prosecutor, and ex-chairman of The Walt Disney Company, George Mitchell was appointed by Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig on March 30, 2006 to investigate the use of performance-enhancing drugs in MLB. Mitchell was... Read more.
2012-04-27 12:17
About alower
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I'm a SABR member since 1984. Mainly, I have my baseball statisitics website, baseballbypositions.com. This looks at baseball from a positional perspective. I've also started dong player salary analysis, seeing how every player's salary matches with production.
