Negro Leagues

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• Strat-O-Matic Honors Negro Leagues

  
  Fantasy Baseball Dugout — Authority: 418
  In a past post, we talked about the History of Fantasy Baseball and how Strat-O-Matic Baseball played a great role in the development of the game we know today.Nearly all middle-aged men baseball fans of today played Strat-O-Matic in their formative years.  It was how they learned about baseball statistics, ...
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• * TWIBB — November 6, 2009

  
  Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf — Authority: 130
  This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, November 6. Title Rank General Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America’s Pastime , by Mark Frost 1 The Bill James Handbook 2010 2 ...
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• Breaking The Geek Color Barrier [Nerds!]

  
  ipiko — Authority: 155
  Its been 62 years since Jackie Robinson integrated baseball. Now, finally, a little card with his attributes will integrate tabletop baseball simulations. Wouldnt it have been wonderful if all the great Negro Leaguers had been able to play in the majors? We cant change the past, but a close second would be black and ...
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• Breaking The Geek Color Barrier [Nerds!]

  
  Deadspin — Authority: 818
  Its been 62 years since Jackie Robinson integrated baseball. Now, finally, a little card with his attributes will integrate tabletop baseball simulations. Wouldnt it have been wonderful if all the great Negro Leaguers had been able to play in the majors? We cant change the past, but a close second would be black and ...
  1 week ago

• Hebrew National Strikes While The Sanchez Dog Is Hot…

  
  Sports Marketing and PR Roundup — Authority: 523
  Timing is everything, whether you are an official team partner or not. Take Conagra Foods Hebrew National Hot Dogs for example. The Kosher Dog, with a few professional sports ties but not many, made a very smart play this week to tie to the Jets, the NFL and poster boy quarterback Mark Sanchez by capitalizing on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Strat-O-Matic adds Negro League Ballplayers to its Game

  
  The Sly Oyster | culture, entertainment, liberal arts, shenanigans — Authority: 491
  When it comes to my nerdery, Strat-O-Matic hits several sweet spots: history, baseball, statistics and board games.  Invented in 1961, the dice rolling game is fun for settling those abstract questions like how would Ty Cobb hit against Roger Clemens in their primes, etc.  You can play historical teams against one ...
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• Sully Baseball Presents...A GUIDE TO “TALKING BASEBALL” FOR PEOPLE WHO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT BASEBALL

  
  SULLY BASEBALL — Authority: 479
  Ever feel left out when your friends start having an in depth baseball discussion? Ever wish you can participate, but don’t want to spend every spring, summer and fall studying the game to become an expert? Then follow my guide and learn my 10 simple phrases and you too can talk baseball. GENERAL BASEBALL ...
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• The Legend Behind the Plate

  
  Mike Silva's New York Baseball Digest — Authority: 146
  A group of journalism students at Duquesne University have put together a new documentary about Negro League star Josh Gibson. The documentary tells of Gibson’s legendary baseball accomplishments, one of them being whether he actually hit a home run out of the old Yankee Stadium in 1934, but it also tries to ...
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• * Bits and pieces

  
  Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf — Authority: 130
  The Daily Reflector ran this piece on Chasing Moonlight . Moonlight Graham was a North Carolina product. Bronx Banter ran a Q&A with Arnold Hano , author of the acclaimed A Day in the Bleacher s, his account of the first game of the 1954 World Series. BaseballDigest.com’s review of Satchel , by Larry ...
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• * TWIBB — October 16

  
  Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf — Authority: 130
  This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, October 16. Title Rank General Sixty Feet, Six Inches: A Hall of Fame Pitcher & a Hall of Fame Hitter Talk about How the Game is Played , by Bob Gibson, Reggie Jackson, and Lonnie Wheeler 1 ...
  4 weeks ago

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