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Throwback Thursday: Danny Gardella's Forgotten Challenge to Baseball's Reserve Clause
Decades before Curt Flood, there was little-known Danny Gardella, a fly-ball-phobic journeyman whose offseason Mexican League play led to a court case that nearly upended MLB's reserve clause.
RIP Monte Irvin, Baseball Player And Legend, In That Order
Monte Irvin nearly broke baseball's color line, and still wound up a Hall of Famer and a legend. But what he really wanted was to be seen as a baseball player.
The Forgotten Men Who Broke Baseball's Color Line With Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson played alongside a pair of former Negro League pitchers in the Brooklyn Dodgers farm system, but the team—and baseball—never really gave them a chance.
How Wall Street Strangled the Life out of Sabermetrics
Once upon a time, advanced baseball stats had an application beyond the fevered hunt for market inefficiencies.
Liverpool FC Came to the US in 1946 to Beat Americans at Soccer and Eat
Every summer, European clubs come to the United States seeking mega-profits from friendly matches, but in 1946 Liverpool came to America looking to stuff a very different region: their players’ stomachs.