MLB 2022: The Long and Winding Thread

What the hell were they both pissed about?

 

Didn’t Peter Schmuck write about him?

 

No, he wrote about Jim Gentile.

 

I am reading '"July 2, 1903," about the mysterious death of dead-ball era superstar Ed Delahanty. It's a great history of turn-of-the-century (1900) baseball.

The author is Mike Sowell, the same guy who wrote "The Pitch That Killed," one of the best baseball books I've ever read. I know there are lots of old-time baseball geeks here, just wanted to alert them.

 

WWL hed: Los Angeles Angels star Mike Trout homers in seventh straight game, one shy of MLB record

In case anybody forgot he's a star. LOL

 

I have both of them. Great reads.

In both of them, reading about how screwed up MLB’s structure was back then, it’s a miracle that we still have the sport today.

The part in “The Pitch That Killed” about the owners and Ban Johnson squabbling about Mays to the point of nearly killing the AL is a doozy. Even Mays was stunned.

 

“Mike Trout cures cancer, Ohtani runs three-minute mile, Angels blow up stadium dynamiting Disneyfied rock sculpture”

 

The more I read, the more amazed I am that the AL survived Ban Johnson. What an autocratic asshole. At least Harridge and Cronin, incompetent as they were, stayed out of the way but they still managed to screw up the 1961 and 1969 expansions.

 

Delahanty is the guy who fell off the back of a train?

 

Team still loses, 8-3.

 

Fell, jumped ... the exact circumstances weren't exactly clear.

 

Gotta love a player being willing to call out his organization for being shitty.