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We’ve Added A New Blog Page
Bill Gutman and I are very happy to announce that we’ve added a new blog page feature to our Baseball History Comes Alive website. We’ll use it to “sound off” on different baseball topics that arise from time to time. And the way this year has been, there’s no shortage of things to discuss. You’ll find the link to the blog at the top of the HOME page and it’ll also appear on each individual post page.
As always, we’d love to hear your thoughts. There’s a comment form at the end of each blog. We hope to start an interesting back and forth dialogue on the topics we bring up. In the coming days look for discussions on the Negro Leagues now being considered a Major League, and a discussion of the Cleveland Indians changing their name.
To make things easier, here’s a link to the first blog entry, as Bill sounds off on the affect the Covid virus has had on the game. Feel free to chime in with your thoughts.
Trivia Contest Coming Soon!
One more thing: As we continue in our quest to add ways to improve the site, Bill and I are thinking of adding a monthly trivia contest, with a $25 Amazon gift prize awarded to the monthly winner. The contest will be open to all, but only subscribers will be eligible to win the prize. So if you’re reading this post as a visitor to the website and not already a subscriber, please consider doing so to be eligible for the monthly prize. We’re still in the “thought process” about this, but if all goes as planned, we hope to have it up-and-running soon after the first of the year. So stay tuned for more information.
And of course, Bill and I, along with our great contributors, plan to continue with our weekly articles, essays, and photo galleries. Our Baseball History Comes Alive web site now has over 1100 posts, all fully categorized.
And what better way to usher in a new feature than with a photo of Babe Ruth. I feel pretty confident the great Bambino would approve of our humble efforts to keep both his legacy alive along with the great history of the game as well.
Anyway, we invite you to participate in our new blog page and we look forward to viewing your comments.
Gary and Bill
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When I was a little kid we had a home town team called the corning red sox I have been try to locate many former players to this date I’ve located 12 I need help this team started in 1954 through 1960. My collection is about the corning team and where they went after went if there progress included the next team or teams they went to. any help could be helpful. I know some of the players have passed away. Thanks for listening
Don Allison
Hopefully, someone will read this who can be of help, Don.
Gary, Bill: Having studied and learned so much from your artfully-crafted perspectives on baseball, its history and some of its most intriguing participants, I do believe this new page will be a welcome inspiration for readers who are less interested in which guys hit the longest balls, say, or swiped the most bases in a particular era, than in thinking about the tangled relationship between our national pastime and today’s political, social and cultural climate(s). For instance: How the falling COVID curtain has affected the game, or should; whether it’s imperative or even desirable that further executive action be taken by the lords of baseball in rectifying decades of perceived racial injustice; the degree to which sportswriters and other electors adhere to the letter and spirit of published criteria governing admission to the Hall of Fame; all the “what-ifs” and “might-have-beens” that help to spark the imaginations of baseball historians who pause to consider how severely the lives and careers of certain players were affected by such intervening circumstances as war, injury, addiction, performance-enhancing pharmaceuticals, bad marriages or ill-advised trades, to name but a few potentially ominous shadows of unexpected and unfortunate influence.
The sky is the limit I think, and you two guys and your widening circle of readers and contributors will have me waiting eagerly for the inaugural installment, the likely fallout from it, and all the analyses, conclusions, yes-buts and justifications that inevitably follow.
Go for it! You can count on me to weigh in occasionally with lightning-bolts of contrived controversy, self-congratulatory insight, fractured logic and juvenile self-pity, so keep your editors’ red pencils close at hand.
Kindest wishes,
Michael
Thanks Michael, I was going to contact you and Schaefer about this because I thought you two guys could be a good source of topics and material for the blog. So whenever you feel like it, give some thought about composing a paragraph or two or three on any topic of your choosing and we’ll run it on the blog. We’re having one problem, however. The comments people leave aren’t appearing on the blog directly. So far I’m copying and pasting them in manually. Could turn into a burden over time. Maybe someone out there can help us overcome this problem. Thanks again, Gary