Big milestone for the way-too-ambitious-but-I’m-doing-it-anyway personal project: one bio down, 863 to go.

This one is for the baseball history homies. Yesterday afternoon was the official graduation ceremony for me. If there was going to be one time I wore my Dai Nippon jersey.... it was this.

Lázaro Salazar was born 112 years ago today. I have an extended break coming up. During that I’m going to pour a bunch of time into a project that he inspired. If it proves viable, I can’t wait to tell you about it. I adore Lázaro Salazar. Why? I think I need replies to fit that…

Excellent thread on a man who has a case to be the coolest player outside of baseball in the U.S. Laz has been one of my favorite Outsiders. Seeing Cooperstown introduce their exhibit on Japanese Baseball, it only reaffirms my belief that there is a space for Salazar and many others in Cooperstown.

Monday marked the final day of undergrad classes for me. I will be graduating Saturday. 5 and 1/2 years of college, one Associate's degree, and now a BA in History. It's a strange, exciting and kind of sad feeling.

Doing some photo hunting.... Anyone familiar with the Kansas City Monarchs have any photos of what their road uniforms possibly looked like in 1949? I have the home unis. Just having trouble finding if they had different roads or used one uni set. @adarowski.bsky.social @buckweaver.bsky.social

I’ll let it go now. Just one more post. Spent a lot of time on this and learned a lot. open.spotify.com/episode/3Iqm...

This semester has allowed me to finally do something I've wanted to do for a few years now... Analog photography. I shot and developed my first roll of film this month. Today, after several weeks of attempts, I finally produced my first successful print in the darkroom.

Haven't posted in a bit. Been busy with my final semester of undergrad. Here's some screen prints of Mr. Stan Musial.

SURPRISE! The Outsider Baseball Notebook: Episode 5 Von Spalding - International Leaderboards I haven’t done any personal podcasting in over a year, but I wanted to take the time to introduce to you Von Spalding, my new research partner and friend. open.spotify.com/episode/5w7Y...

YES. Excited to see this return. Looking forward to listening to it this week.

Was curious if any of you dudes have seen colorized versions of the unis here that just say "New York". Trying to figure out colors for the 1949 project. @adarowski.bsky.social @buckweaver.bsky.social @bballhist.bsky.social

Those Bham boys. #ATGPWGoldenAge

I just want to say shoutout to Patricio Scantlebury.

I haven't posted on here in a bit.... ATG Golden Age is alive and well. Here's what I've spent today on 👀

If only we had more cards for Negro League and Latin stars. The list could go on.

Induct Curt Flood.

When @immaculategrid.com added the stat tracking, I thought it would be cool to see what things look like for me with a fresh slate going forward. Since the update, I've completed 50 total grids. Big fan of my top players.

This deserves a full blown exhibit.

A week later, it has been submitted. Final total ended up 36 pages, 10,375 words. Going to give it a few days and hopefully I will either post it here publicly for people to see or send it to the few of you who I have discussed the work with and wish to view.

It has been a month since I last posted anything on this. One week from the date it's due, everything is officially in the final document.

If there is one thing that the stat tracking for @immaculategrid.com has shown me, it's that I love Bullet Rogan, Silvio Garcia, and Paul Waner.

Sam Jethroe is a guy who could have been a Hall-of-Famer if his timing had been different. Fun fact about Jethroe: he played a fair bit of catcher in 1944-45. If he’d stuck there he’d probably have been the fastest catcher in major-league history. www.retrosheet.org/NegroLeagues...

Fun group of dudes for today's grid. Rarity of 18. @immaculategrid.com @adarowski.bsky.social

Luque and Lefty. I have been summoned. It's like an Outsider Baseball bat signal went off.

I think Adam takes the cake with this one. This is gold.

@adarowski.bsky.social and @immaculategrid.com were just asking for me to go all Outsider Baseball for today's grid...... decided I would test my New York Cubans knowledge. Love my NYC. Nice rarity of zero to start the day.

I was looking at the wrong document lol. Sitting at 15 pages, roughly 6800 words.

Realized I never posted about this. Starting back in January, I began an internship for my degree that has seen me conducting research and building a report on the 1957 University of Alabama baseball team who played exhibition games in Japan, Korea, and Hawaii. 15 pgs, 7600+ words. Almost done lol

I do not know how I missed that this dropped. Please tune in and listen to @adarowski.bsky.social talk about possibly the coolest baseball story.

A return to where it all started.

As I sit here working on my internship report and looking at some stuff for our project on MLB The Show 25, I want to send out a few thanks..... @adarowski.bsky.social @buckweaver.bsky.social @bballhist.bsky.social @baseball-reference.com

I don't think I like this.

What's in Moe's headphones? This week it's The Thermals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBVZ...

Nice little rarity of zero this afternoon. @adarowski.bsky.social @immaculategrid.com

Rarity of 14 @immaculategrid.com @adarowski.bsky.social

Happy Birthday BBRef 😘

I love several of the players listed here..... but my god Fats Jenkins rules.

We love the Grid.

Oh my god. I'm so excited.

Baseball history homies, I need a hand. Trying to find as much info as I can on some Negro League teams (affiliated and unaffiliated) from 1949. Right now, if anyone has names, rosters, stats, anything on: Asheville Blues, New York Black Yankees, and the Pittsburgh Homestead Grays from '49.

White House budget office suspends federal financial aid programs abcnews.go.com/amp/US/white...

I presume this will be resolved, somehow, by August, but if it isn't I have two college student children who will be unable to continue their education. I'm sure there are millions of others in the same situation. bsky.app/profile/will...

Has anyone dug and compiled stats for Toni Stone? Doing some searching and have only been able to find one box score where she played an inning for the New Orleans Creoles. newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/405214...

Nice little rarity of 1 today on an all Negro League grid. @adarowski.bsky.social @immaculategrid.com

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh crap. This is massive. There's so much that can be covered.... NeL connections, PCL connections, barnstorming (Dai Nippon), everything.

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Three members of the 600 HR club will most likely have to be inducted into the HOF via Veterans Committee.