Archive for May, 2006

The Right Cross - A Baseball Tradition

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

“He grabbed me and said, ‘I didn’t have the ball’ and then he punched me. … I was trying to pick up my helmet. I tried to take a step around him and he grabbed me. I thought he was going to say ‘Hey, are you OK?’ And I was going to say the same […]

Today’s Dead Baseball Player - The Scout

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

I wish I could take a psychologist with me, I’d like to know if the boys have the will to win. If they do I want them. If they don’t, they’re no good to me.”
Part of the goal of Baseball Minutia is to chronicle some of the strange and complicated webs of baseball history. […]

The Other Side of the Coin

Friday, May 12th, 2006

1969 is the year that divisional play first appeared, 1969 is the year the Mets ripped the game open,1969 was the year that Pilots broke the hearts of a few hardy souls up here in the Pacific Northwest.
Others still remember 1969 for the move that the results of 1968 season created among them the following […]