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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

178. Charles "Square Deal" Cromwell: Blackball Umpire

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I 've said it before many times, but I'll say it again: one of the best benefits about writing/illustrating The Infinite Baseba...
Friday, September 5, 2014

177. "El Toro" Cepeda: The Babe Ruth of Puerto Rico

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This whole season I have been completely immersed in the history of baseball, so much so that I have not been able to attend a single ballg...
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Thursday, August 28, 2014

176. Charlie "Slats" Dorman: Right Place, Right Time

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Charlie Dorman is another Outsider who didn't make the final cut for my book. It's a shame, because Charlie has a great, all be i...
Saturday, August 9, 2014

175. Buzz Arlett: Babe Ruth of the Minor Leagues

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This past Monday (which also happened to be my 44th birthday) I sent off the completed manuscript of my book to Simon & Schuster . It...
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Monday, July 21, 2014

Victory Faust Gets a Second Chance

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One of the good things about getting the chance to do a full-scale book is that I am able to re-do many of my older drawings or, as in t...
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Monday, July 14, 2014

Frankie Zak, ESPN and Uncovering What the Pirates Wore in '44

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Last week Steve Wulf from ESPN contacted me about Frankie Zak. It's All-Star time again and Steve was writing a column on Ol' Frank...
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Saturday, June 28, 2014

174. Percy Skillin: Ace of the Ivy League

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Here's a look at one of the ballplayers I included in a chapter on "The Could Have Beens" - you know the guys who had it al...
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Monday, May 26, 2014

Memorial Day, 2014

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This morning I opened up my newspaper to see another famous person with a hang-dog look on their face, holding up a piece of paper with a...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

171. Don Anderson: Speed on the Bases

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I've been working on my book for the past few months, compiling, writing about and illustrating some really great and forgotten ballp...
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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Leon Day's '37 Eagles Cap & The Ideal Cap Company

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In what seems like a thousand years ago, during the summer of 1989 I was working in a garment factory in Passaic, N.J. On a lunch break I w...
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