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John McGraw told The New York Mail before the 1911 season that only larger pitchers would succeed moving forward: “You, Know, the time has come in baseball when the pitcher of small stature wil...

https://baseballhistorydaily.com/2021/11/09/not-one-small-pitcher-out-of-a-hundred-makes-good/

Johnny Evers’ 1913 Chicago Cubs finished a respectable 88-65 in third place, but the first-time manager was forever bitter about the season; Henry Farrell of The Newspaper Enterprise Associatio...

https://baseballhistorydaily.com/2021/10/22/his-enmity-was-a-thing-to-fear/

Upon being named president of the National League in 1910, Thomas Lynch spoke to a reporter from The New York Telegraph about his experiences as an umpire from 1888 to 1902: “The personal discu...

https://baseballhistorydaily.com/2021/10/18/wouldnt-hesitate-to-soak-a-ballplayer-with-his-good-right-mitt/

The Tabasco Kid had softened. Kid Elberfeld, a man so contemptuous of umpires he hit a few and once told John McGraw, “I intend to fight ‘em as long as I live,” as 64-year-old in 1939 said ...

https://baseballhistorydaily.com/2021/10/15/so-i-let-go-a-right/

Mickey Welch was not happy In January of 1938, the 78-year-old future Hall of Famer couldn’t believe Joe DiMaggio was seeking a raise to $35,000 for the coming season. Current salaries were “...

https://baseballhistorydaily.com/2021/10/11/not-half-the-player-that-buck-ewing-was/

A syndicated article that first appeared in The Cleveland News said of Addie Joss, then coming off his fourth straight 20-win season: “The Cleveland twirling star has batters guessing with his ...

https://baseballhistorydaily.com/2021/10/08/addies-false-rise/

Buck Ewing, during his final season managing the Cincinnati Reds in 1899, “wrote” a syndicated article regarding his, “study of the science of batting.” The article introduction said, “...

https://baseballhistorydaily.com/2021/10/06/ewings-study-of-the-science-of-batting/

Ollie Pickering told The Cleveland Plain Dealer in 1902 the lengths he went to get “discovered” and signed to his first professional contract 10 years earlier: “I went bankrupt buying posta...

https://baseballhistorydaily.com/2021/10/04/ollie-pickering-gets-discovered/

Oscar “Flip Flap” Jones had a promising rookie season for the Brooklyn Superbas in 1903; he was 19-14 with a 2.94 ERA for the fifth-place club. He was 25-40 over the next two seasons. His maj...

https://baseballhistorydaily.com/2021/10/01/flip-flap-jones/

Eddie Collins said of teammate Charles “Chief” Bender: “I rate Bender among the first five American League hurlers, and he gets this place because he made pitching a fine art. He mastered e...

https://baseballhistorydaily.com/2021/09/29/we-didnt-kill-albert/