Oct. 1, 2009
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How Game Changes, and How It Doesn't
from The New York Times
 Bob Gibson (251 victories) and Reggie Jackson (563 home runs) faced each other exactly once in their long careers - in the 1972 All-Star Game. These are two of the best - and smartest and most strong-minded - Hall of Fame ballplayers still roaming the earth. They competed against each other only one time because they played in separate leagues before the advent of interleague play. More
    

Do MLB Teams Enjoy a Home-Field Advantage from Umps?
from The Wall Street Journal
At Fenway Park, the Red Sox are 52-21, while everywhere else they are 34-37. That means they have been 23 percentage points more likely to win at home than on the road, the third-biggest edge in the majors behind the Pirates and the Tigers. And Fuentes thinks he knows who should get credit: home-plate umpires. More
    

Harwell Serene in Face of Cancer
from Detroit Free Press
As Hall of Fame broadcaster Ernie Harwell stands in the middle of Ford Field, awash in a thunderous ovation, he looks up with a humble glint in his eye and waves to the 56,269 fans who are saying goodbye for the last time. Harwell, wearing a blue No. 1 Detroit Lions jersey, leaves through a tunnel to chants of "Ernie! Ernie!" Fans wave signs, and he spots a yellow T-shirt with his picture underneath the words "Thanks for the memories." More
    

1984 Chicago Cubs - Where Are They Now?
from ESPN Chicago
John Jacob and Dan Diversey had the type of job that many kids in Chicago dreamed about in 1984 - they were the bat boys for the Cubs. To this day, 25 years later, it's still one of the coolest jobs either has ever had. More
    

Gehrig's Final Hit: A Single on a Cold April Day in the Bronx
from The New York Times
His body betraying him for reasons he could not understand, Lou Gehrig came to bat at Yankee Stadium in the fourth inning against the Washington Senators on April 29, 1939. He had only three hits in the young season. But he had 2,720 in his magnificent career and was playing in his 2,129th consecutive game. More
    

UW-Eau Claire to Host Baseball Exhibit
from Leader Telegram
A traveling exhibit on the history of African-American baseball is coming to UW-Eau Claire in Wisconsin, but it will tell more than a national story. More
    

Atomic Baseball: Book Review
from Esquire
Most of the time, the process of examining historical events revolves around taking a mammoth, multifaceted issue and reducing it to its simplest, least-complicated thesis. (This, after all, is why we have the Internet.) But the best historians do the opposite: They take something small and make it vast. More