78 years ago today, Jackie Robinson stepped up to the plate in Jersey City’s Roosevelt Stadium and broke the minor league color line that had stood since 1899 ..read more

Despite hitting .330 at the highest level of the minors for almost a decade, Phil Weintraub never got a real chance in the big leagues. But why? Wrong place,wrong time? Bad luck? Anti-Semitism? Let’s try to find out ..read more

#OTD in 1892, one of the most interesting Negro Leaguer ballplayers was born: star college athlete, ace of the Baltimore Black Sox when not practicing dentistry, and a Civil Rights hero ..read more

While other players of arguably lesser talent have their mugs preserved in bronze and hanging on a wall in The Hall, Sammy T. remains unrecognized, obscure, and, worst of all, forgotten ..read more

Sometimes a player comes along who has that “certain something” that could not be tallied up and distilled into a statistic found in a record book, yet is so vital that an entire team’s success depends on it ..read more

His part in fixing the 1919 World Series extinguished a brilliant Hall of Fame career. Instead, Joe Jackson was exiled to the murky world of Outsider Baseball, all the while proclaiming his innocence ..read more

Mose Solomon’s popularity with baseball historians stems not just for his tremendous 1923 season with Hutchinson in which he belted 49 homers, but also from his being one of the first baseball stars who openly acknowledged his Jewish faith. This combination of power and religion earned him the unforgettable nickname of “The Rabbi of Swat ..read more

For most, the path to The Show is a long, gradual climb through the minors. However, Mahlon Higbee went from the lowest minor league directly to the majors where he had one of the greatest debuts in baseball history ..read more

No other moment in sports history comes close to that single game in October, 1951. Countless non-fiction books have been written about the ’51 pennant race, the game, what happened to the home run ball, and the players after the cheering died down. Thomson’s home run has been employed as a plot device for shelves of fiction novels and TV shows, and hardly an autobiography of a person alive in 1951 could escape mentioning where they were on that day ..read more

Lt. Robinson roamed the athletic fields of Camp Breckinridge, wondering what he would do after he was discharged from the army. Fortunately, a chance encounter with a fellow soldier held the answer ..read more