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Happy 56th birthday to Ken Griffey Jr! Here’s my painting of him as a youngster with the San Bernardino Spirit (High-A California League) in 1988, based on the photography of VJ Lovero. Card collectors my age (or any, really) should recognize the image.

Stan Musial and Ken Griffey Jr. were born in Donora, PA, on this date in 1920 and 1969.

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Is this heaven? 🌽 We will play in the Field of Dreams game on August 13th! #MinnesotaTwins #TwinsBaseball #MLB

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If you haven't listened to the latest episode of My Baseball History with St. Louis Cardinals historian Ed Wheatley, you can do that here: www.shoelesspodcast.com/season-five/02 But be careful! It might make you want to buy a bunch of Ed's award-winning books... ⚾️📚

New on the blog! A review of an outstanding new book on the 1912 Hassan Triplefolders set. sabrbaseballcards.blog/2025/11/16/r...

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Swinging by Collectors Castle this afternoon. Anyone need anything? (1978 price list)

A new national poll on sports gambling from Sacred Heart: - 79% say the recent scandals have shaken their trust in the NBA, 38% say its shaken trust a lot. - 90% are worried about corruption across sports. - 75% of gambler believe corruption is more widespread than the NBA

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won a World Series and an MVP in the same season, multiple times:   Joe DiMaggio: 1939, 1941, 1947 Shohei Ohtani: 2024, 2025 Joe Morgan: 1975, 1976 Mickey Mantle: 1956, 1962

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#OnThisDay in baseball history The latest episode of my long form interview podcast, My Baseball History, is a deep dive into the history of the Cardinals franchise with award-winning author and historian Ed Wheatley. It is out now, wherever you listen to podcasts.

Episode 0502 is live! Make sure you're following @shoelesspodcast and quote this post with the correct answer to the following trivia question for a chance to win: According to Ed Wheatley, what both kickstarted and saved Major League Baseball in St. Louis? www.shoelesspodcast.com/season-five/02

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#OnThisDay in baseball history #HappyBirthday to my mom

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He’s talking about tours. Literally bragging about how much the tours bring in year-round. Yet the Dodgers are refusing to pay a living wage and engaging in union busting.

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World Series Game 7 has gone into extra innings just *5* times! 1924: Senators beat Giants (12 innings) 1991: Twins beat Braves (10 innings) 1997: Marlins beat Cleveland (11 innings) 2016: Cubs beat Cleveland (10 innings) 2025: Dodgers beat Jays (11 innings) (since 1907)

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League featured first former player to become a baseball commissioner

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When a best-of-7 postseason series with the 2-3-2 format has been tied after 4 games, the team playing G5 on the road – before returning home for G6-7 – has gone on to win that series 35 of 61 times (57.4%) In any best-of-7 series tied 2-2, the G5 winner has won the series 46 of 68 times (67.6%)

I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.

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Ohtani is amazing and we should all be appreciative of his greatness but it’d be rad to hear anything about any of the other players in this game.

Meghan Markle’s great-great uncle played for one of the greatest baseball teams in history: the 1931 Homestead Grays. And before that, Bill “Happy” Evans played against the banned Black Sox, too. jacobpomrenke.com/black-sox/me...

Just blows my mind that in 120 years of the postseason a record can be SIX of something and this dude comes along and gets NINE. Would be like Barry Bonds coming along and hitting 105 home runs in 2001… which tbh maybe he would have if they pitched to him.

Great advice not just for tonight, or a game which happens after an unexpectedly long game the night before, but for ALL sporting events, concerts, and just times out in public. The people working may be getting paid to be there, but they're still people. Treat them with the kindness they deserve.

The long 2018 game World Series game, which also ended on the first batter of bottom of the 18th but had much LESS action (30 total H+W, as opposed to 50 last night) took FORTY-ONE more minutes. If you’re still wondering about the pitch clock.

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Mark Wegner has been so bad tonight, he has radicalized my mom into wanting robot umpires.

I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED THIS

OK so you know the gag on the Simpsons when Sideshow Bob is stepping on the rakes, it's funny, then it's too much, then it's terrible, then it's transcendently hilarious this baseball game

Nobody remembers why this game began, all those generations ago. Such details are long lost to history. All we know is that the game must be played