Baseball Minutia

“I want the voting in the hands of the fans, but not if they make a joke out of it.”
Frank Lane St Louis Cardinals General Manager 1957

Current Reds owner Bob Castellini likely remembers the above quote, if not he certainly remembers the incident that generated it. For it’s his reintroduction of Mr. Redlegs that pays […]

As I noted in this piece a month ago the lifespan of a manager who takes an underperforming team into June has a long track record of being a man who is circulating his resume the following spring. The demise of Jerry Narron should not surprise many, probably not as much as the teams […]