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The MLB Baseball Uniform is Anything but Uniform
A curious assertion, given that the majority of MLB ballplayers wear their uniforms in one of two ways: with the pants at knee-level (or above) or as full-length pants that drape over the shoes. Unimaginative is lending credit to today’s current “style”. The point is that the art and ritual of donning a baseball uniform…
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The Day that Babe Ruth Should Have Retired from Baseball
Ninety years ago today, May 25, 1935, Babe Ruth, now with the last-place Boston Braves, capped his 22-season career with a banner day against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field. This podcast expresses the significance of that day, excoriates Braves’ owner Emil Fuchs, and identifies perhaps the actual day, June 13, 1948, when Babe Ruth…
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The Mystery of Javier Baez’s Transformation
What is up with Javier Baez? I looked at the numbers in detail to find out HOW Javier Baez has improved so dramatically in 2025 compared to 2024, because they can’t lie. Many of Baez’s stats are drastically different in 2025 compared to 2024. However, many others are surprisingly the same, or worse, in 2025…
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A Losing Bet: The Reinstatement of Pete Rose
Not much more to say about the content of this podcast, except for that it references, obviously, the movies American Grafitti, Casablanca, and Animal House. More to the point, it’s somewhat ironic to me that MLB Commissioner Manfred waited until Rose died before removing him from the “permanently ineligible” list. This entire situation reeks of…
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You Need to Listen to “The Midnight Library of Baseball”
“The Midnight Library of Baseball,” by Ben Orlando, is the podcast that inspired me to create “All About Baseball,” and my podcast is loosely modeled after Orlando’s. I want to share Orlando’s podcast with you because it is worth listening to. I just finished his three-part series on the 1919 World Series, and if you…
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When is it Time to Call Time?
In a recent game between the Reds and the Braves, where Braves’ first basemen Matt Olsen was awarded an inside-the-park home run, I think that the umpires missed the opportunity to apply Rule 5:12 (b) (3). In my opinion, Olsen should have been awarded two bases and no runs allowed, in the spirit of the…

