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Who wants to tell them?

It’s always worth a laugh, if it weren’t so infuriating, when an organization like the Chicago Blackhawks gets backed into a corner like this: Read more…

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Negro League researcher Cam Perron talks about his new book, the Negro Leagues, and the times to come

In a profile over the summer, I asked Cam Perron what he’s up to next. At the time, the young Negro Leagues researcher, whose work of documenting players’ service time led to their receiving MLB pensions, was operating his memorabilia business and working on a book set to hit shelves in 2021. Read more…

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The last Opening Day

Of course it’s not the last Opening Day this week. There will be a baseball season after 2021. It’s likely that it will be in 2022. But it could not be! You can’t imagine that MLB owners and the MLBPA would lose a full season and another World Series to a work stoppage. But also, you […]

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Farewell to Pedro Gomez, a pioneer for Latinos, baseball fans, and aspiring journalists

If you’re of a certain age group — mainly if you were born in the mid to late 1990’s — Gomez was probably the first Latino you saw regularly report on ESPN. By definition, the late journalism legend was a pioneer for a multicultural community that has been granted minimal access to mainstream airwaves. Read […]