Where the “Save America’s Pastime Act” was designed to keep the salaries of Minor Leaguers low after a thorough lobby by MLB, the Toronto Blue Jays have chosen to go another way. Instead of keeping the salaries of their minor leaguers low, the club has decided to raise them. According to sources, the club will…
The title of this blog post may tell you it is about St. Patrick’s Day. Next, to being the very first professional baseball team, the Cincinnati Reds had another first in the history of baseball. In 1978 during a St. Patrick’s Day practice game, the team donned Green jerseys instead of their traditional red ones….
After a blog post about the comic “Peanuts” and baseball, I thought it would be nice to describe how peanuts became a common thing in baseball. We all know the verse of “Take me out to the ballgame”, “Buy me some peanuts and crackerjacks.” Since this song is from 1908 it means that the legume…
Draci Brno has made a surprising move by signing a twelve year MLB veteran. The 40-year old Peter Moylan will wear the colors of the Dragons for one season. One may wonder why an ex MLB player is opting for the Czech Republic instead of Italy where still quite some money can be earned by…
Bill Veeck was always known as an inventor in the baseball world. He was responsible for the ivy at the outfield wall at Wrigley Field. He promoted the game in every possible way. Today in 1960, Bill Veeck came up with something that would become the standard in MLB. On March 13, 1960, then the…
Normally, with this blog, I stay away from politics or social issues. Unless it is baseball related like the MiLB salary dispute. In the case of this blog post, it is baseball related (in)directly. As a baseball cap nut, it is time for me to write an accusal against New Era cap co. For decades…
Today a lot of traffic on Twitter about the future uniforms of the Padres. As the Padres announced earlier, the team will return to brown as one of the main colors in 2020. Today someone posted pictures of possible uniforms of the 2020 Padres. It remains to be seen which uniforms the Padres will wear…
In imitation of the NPB, the Taiwanese Baseball League, CPBL, will sign a deal regarding a posting system. CPBL commissioner Wu Chih-Yang and MLB senior vice president Jim Small will both sign the agreement on March 8. In previous years MLB teams were unable to bid on Taiwanese players and since MLB believes CPBL’s “international…
In the wake of the Bryce Harper lunacy, today a blog post about two players that were the highest paid players in their days. Regarding the money they got, none could stand in the shadow of Harper’s $330 million. On this day in 1927, a certain Yankee player became the highest paid player ever as…
Today, 111 years ago, MLB introduced the sacrifice fly rule. It would take some attempts before the rule was reinstated for good. In 1908 MLB introduced the sac fly rule. But after 23 years the rule was abolished again only to be reintroduced in 1939. This stay was rather short as the rule was cut…
