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History major does history.
On May 4, 1871, the Ft. Wayne Kekiongas hosted the Cleveland Forest Cities in the 1st game of the 1st season of the National Association. Yes, the very first MLB game.
As hosts, Ft. Wayne took the field first and this was their starting 9. The first 9 to take a major league field.
LF - CF - RF
SS - P - 2B
3B - C - 1B
Play Ball!
More than 10,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated at Manzanar Relocation Center, Calif., during World War II. Playing and watching baseball was one of the ways these Americans tried to retain some sense of normalcy. Dan Kwong is a longtime volunteer at Manzanar, which became a national historic site in 1992 — his late mother, Momo Nagano, was incarcerated there as a teenager. Here's the story of how he built a baseball field at the site in honor of Momo, who wrote extensively about her time at the camp in order that future generations would never forget this piece of history.
Link: https://flip.it/obdTz7
#History #USHistory #InternmentCamps #AlienEnemiesAct @histodons #Baseball #Manzanar #JapaneseAmericans
Women have been playing baseball in the U.S. for 150 years, with the first professional team, the Dolly Vardens, being formed in 1867. @TheConversationUS takes a look at how girls were gradually funnelled towards softball — seen as more suitable for the “weaker” female body — and why a new era in women’s baseball may be about to begin.
https://theconversation.com/women-are-reclaiming-their-place-in-baseball-252590
Opening Day is here! This baseball-themed wallpaper from artist @piraino is the perfect ticket to the ballgame. ️
Get it in Wallaroo, our fun and easy wallpaper app, or by subscribing to our Patreon.
Download Wallaroo FREE from the App Store - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wallaroo/id1630565980
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@GottaLaff This is the webpage on Jackie Robinson that was removed and then restored. I tried to pick out a snippet to quote but, honestly, it's just ALL good.
Please visit the page, then share widely.
Sports Heroes Who Served: Baseball Great Jackie Robinson Was WWII Soldier
Feb. 9, 2021 | By David Vergun, DOD News
#JackieRobinson #MLB #Baseball #BrooklynDodgers #42 #April15
An exhibition highlighting the long and storied history of baseball in Japan will open at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, in July, the same month Ichiro Suzuki will be inducted. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/03/19/baseball/hall-of-fame-japan-exhibit/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #baseball #baseballhalloffame #ichirosuzuki #bobbyvalentine
If Jim Rice offered me advice on how to make a leather case, I would STFU and listen.
If Jim Rice offered me advice on how to mitigate work place injury loses, I would STFU and listen.
If Jim Rice offered me advice on how to manage uterine pain, I would STFU and listen.
You can be damn certain if he offered me advice on baseball, I would tell the statistician to STFU and I would listen.
#baseball #JimRice #HOF #respect
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Double-checked Gary Mathews Jr. to be sure. Think I might have seen him on one of my trips to Camden. Love getting father & son combos on the grid!
Remlinger & Nolan & Bug are my Reds nonsense. Could have used New Billy Hamilton where Bug is.
Any of Tinker-Evers-Chance would work there.
Should try to get Merkle’s Boner and Snodgrass’s Muff into the same grid!
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No themes, mostly just first and second thoughts and in a hurry.
Double checked my Rays, because really? Mike Difelice was my first thought? Didn’t trust that. Cantú is a favorite because he had 100 RBI seasons for both Florida teams and still a negative career WAR.
David Clyde was an infamous rushed first-overall pick & Len Barker threw a perfect game.
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All-Pirates Grid!
So many One-Team Only/Hall of Fame/Pirates sprang to mind, so all-Pirates today.
Wanted to focus on Hall guys, but the outside USA column was tricky. No room for Blyleven.
Also focusing on guys who were mostly Pirates. Orlando Merced instead of Aroldis Chapman. Wilbur Cooper has most wins as a Pirate pitcher with 202!
Cheers!
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Fit as many Negro League alums as I could find and finished it out with Manny Sanguillén and Charles Johnson.
Steel Arm Johnny Taylor doesn’t have many official stats to indicate the Steel-ness of his arm. His three brothers include Candy Jim, C.I., and Hall of Famer Ben Taylor.
“Toothpick” Sam Jones, Al Smith, and Harry Simpson were all AL/NL All-Stars.
#BlackHistoryMonth #Baseball #MLB #ChicagoCubs
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Solly Drake.
This is my oldest baseball card: the 1957 card for Solly Drake of the Chicago Cubs.
Drake was in the generation of Black players that came to the Major Leagues in the decade after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947.
Satchel Paige is the GOAT
Spring training has started and opening day is not far away!
Celebrate baseball with our baseball field design, shown on a framed print available on many more made to order products.
#BuyIntoArt #Baseball #BaseballField #SpringTraining #MLB #CollegeBaseball #HighSchoolBaseball #BaseballMom #BaseballDad #BaseballCoach
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It’s a grey and rainy day in Tallahassee and I’m feeling lazy.
Started with Rookie of the Year category and realized immediately I had no interest in using what Hercule Poirot called “the little grey cells.” Maybe if I’d dug around I’d have remembered Huston Street or Al Bumbry, but honestly not feeling it today.
But Dave Revering was my first thought?
Cheers!
Need a new mascot? A fruity slush works! #sports #baseball #jacksonville #florida
A president’s day shoutout to White Sox great George Washington #baseball https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/washige01.shtml
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This went well. Frey, Jefferson, and Cameron are my Reds nonsense. Arquimedez Pozo is my love of odd names.
Javier Vazquez was really good and people don’t remember him much. He was ace of my only champion fantasy team.
Reggie Jefferson is a Tallahassee native and hit .300 everywhere he went . . . except for the Reds.
Yankees 2B makes me think of Jack Reacher.
