Before the first Sunday Night Baseball of 2026, learn about the inspiring history of Japanese American baseball through this thread & the First Inning of my podcast’s second season!

Before Sunday ends, here’s today’s #ScholarSunday thread once more. Please reshare to help boost all this great work & all these awesome folks, thanks! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social

This @cnn.com film looks compelling, & like a great way to reframe the story of this current generation of Japanese MLB superstars. But there's a lot more to the story, as my new podcast season highlights & as I wanted to say a bit about here. 🗃️ www.cnn.com/2026/03/25/s...

#NoKings, but lots of badass public scholars in my 269th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Wednesday, April 1! #online

Here’s today’s thread for the brunch crowd. Please share to get all this great work out there! 🗃️ @chanda.blacksky.app

#NoKings, but lots of badass public scholars in my 269th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.

The tiny Washington State island where the high school baseball coach resisted the prejudicial narratives of Japanese internment & started all 6 of his Nisei players in the final game before they were incarcerated. That story & much more in my new season's First Inning, highlighted in today's post!🗃️

@mkn.bsky.social, i’d love to see if it might be possible to do joint events/talks about your new book & my new podcast season focused on Japanese American baseball players in the West in the late-19th through the mid-20th century! americanstudier.podbean.com/e/the-first-...

I think I’m done working for the nonce.

Happy Nelson Algren Day! memorydaycalendar.blogspot.com/p/march-nomi...

Did you know that legendary English filmmaker John Badham grew up in Birmingham, fell in love with its Negro Leagues baseball team, & used them as inspiration for his debut film, The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)? That & more in today’s post! @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social 🗃️

One of my favorite things about Season 1 of my podcast was that I had the chance not only to get audience feedback as the weeks & Innings unfolded, but also to incorporate that feedback into subsequent Innings. I blogged about an example of that here: americanstudier.blogspot.com/2024/11/nove...

Friendly heads-up: I play #boardgames regularly & watch #baseball / #sports, & would love to be writing more about both again. If anyone wanted to hire me, I've got clips from places that aren't just hobby blogs. C'mon & give me some work. More people than just white dudes play & watch games.

#NoKings, but also, fuck yes my king.

@lizcovart.bsky.social, just wanted to share the First Inning of my podcast's second season, in the hopes that you might be able to share it with your followers. & I'd love your thoughts if you get to check it out as well! americanstudier.podbean.com/e/the-first-...

Happy Patty Smith Hill Day! Happy birthday indeed to the educational reformer who, y’know, wrote “Happy Birthday”! memorydaycalendar.blogspot.com/p/march-nomi...

Have you heard of the teenage pitching phenom who was rumored to have struck out Ruth & Gehrig back-to-back in an exhibition game before signing with the religious commune barnstorming team famous for its flowing hair & beards? That & much more in today’s post! 🗃️ @nlbmuseumkc.bsky.social

Yoshinobu Yamamoto gets the #OpeningDay start for the Dodgers today. In 1941, pitcher Henry Honda became one of the first Japanese American players to sign with a Major League team--but the Cleveland Indians voided his contract after Pearl Harbor, & he ended up at the Manzanar incarceration camp. +

Before Kodai Senga & his fellow @mets.com teammates kick off their 2026 season in a few minutes, learn about the foundational histories of Japanese & Japanese American baseball--& what they help us see about the worst & best of baseball & the American story! ⚾ #OpeningDay @jaysonst.bsky.social

@carlygoodman.bsky.social, @brianros1.bsky.social, & colleagues, just checking in on any updates about Made By History. Always love the chance to share them in my #ScholarSunday threads so want to make sure I'm not missing a new home!

Happy Robert Frost Day, Tennessee Williams Day, & Vine Deloria Jr. Day! Ain’t that American lit? memorydaycalendar.blogspot.com/p/march-nomi...

Play ball! & then press play on the First Inning of Diamond in the Rough to learn more about the 19th & early 20th century histories of Japanese Americans & baseball! #OpeningDay

Vital new research. #slaveryarchive

Excited & proud to share the First Inning of Diamond in the Rough: Baseball, Bigotry, & the Battle for America, Season 2. Check it out, & if you enjoy, please share widely, thanks! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social americanstudier.podbean.com/e/the-first-...

Walden welcoming spring, still wearing winter.

A good excuse to share my younger son Kyle’s amazing National History Day exhibit on the fire.

Happy Toni Cade Bambara Day & Aretha Franklin Day! Put all the respect on their names. memorydaycalendar.blogspot.com/p/march-nomi...

Hartford was a hub of baseball in the 1870s, including one of the first professional teams & countless semi-pro ones. Like the Celestials, the team of teenage Chinese American players at the heart of my favorite sports story—& today’s post in my historic baseball series! @hcrichardson.bsky.social 🗃️

One day until Diamond in the Rough: Baseball, Bigotry, & the Battle for America, Season Two, drops its First Inning! Can't wait to begin sharing the story of baseball at Manzanar & all the profound, painful, vitally American lessons it offers us in 2026.🗃️ americanstudier.podbean.com/e/season-two...

Speaking of historic baseball, fascinating Guardian piece on Thomas Gilbert's book on legendary mid-19C pitcher James Creighton, one of the first baseball stars: www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...

Anyone else get "Springtime for Hitler" stuck in their head every year? Is it stuck there even more this year because we have a ridiculous totalitarian prick destroying the world and Mel Brooks's defiance of such dickheads gives you strength? Same. So, this week, I reviewed The Producers (1967).

#Sinners as Visual Illmatic ~ Why NAS as the inspiration? Sinners is a strategic & spiritual tradition that is part of a lineage. Dr. @walterdgreason.bsky.social in this interview explains that to understand we must begin with Nas and Illmatic. DOI: doi.org/10.65724/GYM... #wewilltellourownstory

Happy John Wesley Powell Day! memorydaycalendar.blogspot.com/p/march-nomi...

In July 1859, in one of the earliest college baseball games—playing under the offense-friendly Massachusetts rules—Amherst defeated Williams 73-32. The next day, Amherst did the same in part two of the series, a chess match! That & more in today’s Opening Week blog post! 🗃️ @minakimes.bsky.social

In July 1859, in one of the earliest college baseball games—playing under the offense-friendly Massachusetts rules—Amherst defeated Williams 73-32. The next day, Amherst did the same in part two of the series, a chess match! That & more in today’s Opening Week blog post! 🗃️ @minakimes.bsky.social

Two days until this Baseball Birthday Boy drops the next season of his baseball & American history podcast! 🗃️ @profloumoore.bsky.social

ICE guy trying & utterly failing to find a working outlet to charge his cattle prod.

Pitchers & catchers have reported & worked out the kinks (their fans hope), Venezuela has upset the U.S. in the World Baseball Classic (underdog fans rejoice), & now it's finally almost time for Opening Day 2026. Which this year also means it's time for Season 2 of my narrative history podcast! +

Take it from a guy who has taught Intro to Sci Fi & Fantasy a dozen times--a course this human professor created at the request of human students, humanly humanizing the Humanities yet further--say fuck no to further handing our humanity to the machines, y'all.

Happy Bette Nesmith Graham Day! No more perfect story for Women's History Month than high school dropout, single mother, secretary turned iconic inventor who also happens to be the mother of a Monkee! memorydaycalendar.blogspot.com/p/march-nomi...

Once more before Sunday ends, here’s today’s #ScholarSunday thread. Please share widely to get all this great work to all the folks, thanks! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Bracket busted? Join the club, & then check out all the winning picks in my 268th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy the March meaningfulness! 🗃️+ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Here’s today’s #ScholarSunday thread again as the games resume. Please share widely so we’ll all be winners, & thanks! 🗃️ @chanda.blacksky.app

Big day coming up! Massive collection of rare primary source material with historical commentary about urban enslavement. SHIFTING LANDSCAPES Public launch on April 1.

The Paris Commune is also the subject of my favorite American poem, Sarah Piatt's "The Palace-Burner" (1873)! poets.org/poem/palace-...

Bracket busted? Join the club, & then check out all the winning picks in my 268th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy the March meaningfulness! 🗃️+ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

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