“I just had a certain feeling Barry had a better chance in that situation.” My latest for the SABR Games Project remembers a Pirates-Cubs game that began 40 years ago in April, ended in August, and resulted in an oddity on Barry Bonds’ Baseball-Reference page. sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

Early Father’s Day present, baseball fans: How many games do you know of where a father and son have managed against each other? My new SABR Games Project jawn🚨 tells the story of one such game 50 years ago this summer. Check it out: sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

The hero of @johnfredland.bsky.social’s excellent contribution to the recent SABR Games Project Opening Day package:

Lovelady was a British shoegaze band made up of Nick Yorke, Billy Cook, and Henry Davis. Their big hit was “Ghostrunner In The Tenth.”

Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

Who doesn't love Charlie Hough lore? Longtime listener @aharner.bsky.social has a new article about everybody's favorite knuckleballing Opening Day starting grandfather. sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

“Of course, I’m from Pittsburgh, so I think it’s the nicest.” My new one for SABR remembers Pops, The Mayor, and PNC Park’s origin story, 25 years ago next month. sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

Trump 2.0 has been marked by an increasingly wide and obvious gulf between media elites and the general American public, which the elites themselves seem oddly confused about.

HOW DO YOU THINK HE DOES IT?

The new 500 Songs episode is now up! The Bonzo Dog Band! Suspended fourth chords! Zoroastrianism! Marbles! Ableism! Pop-Freudianism! And aliens with trousers unlike our own! It can only be the second and final part of our look at "Pinball Wizard" by the Who!

I think it is really important for us to understand just how big of a defeat the We Are All Charlie Kirk thing was, because I don't feel like there has been much writing about the larger meaning of it

the same number of troops have died in this war that died in the evacuation of afghanistan fyi, weird how the media has decided that isn’t a point to drive home this time

New from the SABR Games Project: John Elrod remembers when Ed Reulbach nearly no-hit the Hitless Wonders. sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

Some June madness for your lunch reading: In which unheralded UConn meets mighty Texas in the College World Series, and you won’t believe what happens next. New SABR Games Project jawn🚨: sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

Featured in a recent Games Project article: sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

Venezuelan-born Francisco Cervelli made his major league debut on September 18, 2008. More Venezuelan-born players have debuted *after* him (266) than debuted *before* him (233).

Donna always finds great stuff for SABR!

His contemporaries thought he was as good as Satchel Paige. He hit home runs just like Babe Ruth, & he pitched in about 1200 (!) semipro games during his long career. Segregation limited his options but Will Jackman deserves to be remembered. I tell his story for SABR here: sabr.org/bioproj/pers...

My latest for SABR remembers when the late Rickey Henderson’s de facto valedictory National League tour of 2001 reached the Allegheny River’s North Shore. sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

Three is the magic number … unless you’re former Phillies farmhand Henry Mack, who in 1978 managed to give up three runs while pitching a no-hitter. My new SABR Games Project jawn 🚨 tells the story: sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

Bad news, gang. You’re now following the soon-to-be world’s biggest fan of Rutgers women’s basketball.

Seen on this morning’s run in San Antonio. #TX23 #ThatsMyCongressman

Any lawyer willing to work for this Administration should be disbarred afterwards

We did a Games Project article on his unassisted triple play! sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

That’s not true. But the Dodgers and Braves played a 26-inning tie in 1920 because Chotiner was there to do a postgame show.

THAT’S MY CONGRESSMAN!

Dictator wishes to benevolently replace a vote of the citizens with his own decision about who should represent them. Honestly, Republican American citizens deserve this.

That’s my district!

On Saturday, ABC interrupted hockey and NBC interrupted golf to report on Ayatollah Khamenei. It wasn’t the first time that viewers received major global news during a sports telecast. My latest piece for SABR revisits the Mets, the Phillies, ESPN, and the bin Laden raid. sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

Pat Ellington is a unique presence in baseball research and commentary. Good to see him featured here.

This is a big one. A newly uncovered document has revealed the existence of a mystery Epstein investigation. It was spearheaded by the DEA and involved drug trafficking and money laundering. Epstein was one of 15 targets. The other 14 names are redacted. I've got questions.

In celebration of Black History Month, we're highlighting the story of Ken Griffey Jr.'s first professional hit! Did you know it came in Everett? Read an article about the hit from Jake Rinloan at the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) here: sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

New this week from the SABR Games Project: Paul White remembers a dazzling big-league debut by one of my college schoolmates. sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

There’s our TX-23 congressman!

Re-upping this essay from earlier this week...

That’s my congressman!

New from the SABR Games Project: first-time SABR author Larry Rice remembers Ramon Ortiz’s home run and near no-hitter on Labor Day 2006 at RFK Stadium. sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

“my children might see the children I voted to put in shackles, how shall they grow up”

RIP Zach Monroe

New SABR Games jawn🚨: Two eventful and memorable games, retold in a single story! Such a deal for you, the reader. (What happened in the games? Well, the tag below pretty much says it all.)

@johnfredland.bsky.social we might have some updating to do, if we haven’t already

Every guy who has confronted teens protesting ICE has completely embarrassed themselves. But even I didn’t think pissing your pants in public was possible.

Nothing but the best for those of us here in TX-23…