There has been a lot of talk about the shift in baseball this spring, including here in these pages. Some feel it should be banned, others vote for modifying it,

My friend Bill Gutman and I are both old-school baseball purists, so you can imagine how we feel about some of the new analytics such as “launch angle,” WAR, Win Shares, and others we can’t even pronounce…

Well, they’re at it again. While Major League Baseball continues to be fixated on speeding up the game, they’re also finally taking heed about the lack of action caused by fewer balls being put in play during a ballgame…

Once upon a time, many years ago, there was a pre-game baseball show that actually brought young baseball players of Little League age to the ballpark…

My quiz from last week about the “Mystery Person” in the Polo rounds Clubhouse while Willie Mays made his famous catch (it was Jeo Garagiola), that I’m back for more this week!

Just recently, a friend forwarded me a story that appeared in the Washington Post back in May of 2019…

For as long as most of us can remember, the basic rules of baseball haven’t really changed much since we discovered the game…

While doing the research about great catchers, one of the interesting stats I uncovered was that Roy Campanella has the highest “caught stealing” percentage in major league history…

Here we see “Double-X” teasing “The Splendid Splinter” about his scrawny biceps. There was a time when many baseball players had colorful nicknames that followed them their entire careers. Some of them weren’t exactly flattering, but they stuck.

Check out this neat color photo of Willie Mays’ great catch in the 1954 World Series off the bat of Vic Wertz. It’s from Game One, played at the Polo Grounds on September 28, 1954…

For longtime baseball fans like us, the game has always meant a great deal and we’ve been watching it for as long as we can remember…

It started when I wrote a blog about baseball’s National Anthem, “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” I followed it with another blog, highlighting the Music of Baseball, four classic tunes about our great game…

Since I’m always looking for ways to connect baseball history with national holidays, the thought occurred to me that maybe we could have some fun even with Presidents’ day…

As Yogi would say, it’s deja view all over again. Another season is arriving and we will be presented with a game that is called baseball, but one that is increasingly foreign to longtime fans…

It’s really a shame Leo Durocher wasn’t around to run interference for Jackie Robinson in 1947…

To most longtime fans, baseball is still the greatest game every invented. Not only do we relish what happens between the lines, but we’ve always loved the numbers – the stats and the records…

 I don’t think any of you will dispute the fact that baseball today is just as much – or maybe more – about the money as it is about the game on the field…

Just recently, a colleague of mine wrote an excellent essay on former Yankee first baseman and current Miami Marlins manager, Don Mattingly…

 Just recently I [Bill Gutman] wrote a blog about Take Me Out to the Ballgame, calling it the
National Anthem of baseball. It still is…

The story dates back to July, 1960. That’s the month my widowed grandfather, Lou Livacari, moved in to my family’s home in Lincolnwood, Illinois…

The death of Hank Aaron caused a ripple effect throughout not only the baseball world, but in many other quarters as well…

All baseball fans know just what the Hot Stove League is. Theoretically, it can be applied to any baseball talk or discussion during the offseason…

“The trouble with Bordagaray is that he thinks he’s a Babe Ruth and wants to be paid accordingly…trouble is, he’s not Babe Ruth, not by a mile”…

Please note: As we compose new blog entries, we will now send each one out to all our subscribers as we post them. -GL

As I mentioned to you the other day, we’re starting a new blog page feature on our Baseball History Comes Alive website.

We all know baseball has seen numerous changes to its basic structure and rules over the years. But here’s something I thought you might get a kick out of. It happened a long time ago…