Exploring Baseball History

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Used to write a blog on past, present, and future of baseball. On the Professor-Consultant-Teacher pipeline. Baltimore Elite Giants fan. Charlie Keller stan. SABR member.

Randy Velarde, who had the probably the biggest surprise seasonof 1999.

1989 Shortstops ranked by fangraphs DEF measure.

Top 10 2B in 1987 by fWAR. Randy Ready is first!!!!

Patrick Berg in a 'Norway Christmas Love Story' on Hallmark

The Philadelphia A's '$100K Infield'

John McGraw

Tommy Tucker had a career year in 1889.

Lew Brown (I think)

Ross Barnes

Charley Jones

Charlie Bennett

Hughie Jennings

Ozzie Smith falls down a pit in the Simpsons

Honus Wagner

Louis Santop

Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth

Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson (top row)

Josh Gibson

Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra

Koufax and Drysdale

Johnny Bench

Rickey Henderson

Jeff Bagwell

Albert Pujols

Mike Trout

Joe Williams

Charlie Smith: a bad, bad man

Harrisburg Giant great Oscar Charleston

Fats Jenkins, great leadoff man and Harlem Globetrotters legend

Josh Gibson

Willie Wells

Harrisburg Giants great John Beckwith

George Scales

Buck Leonard

Baseball card of Alvin 'General' Crowder

A red velvet cake with cream cheese icing that says 'Go Yankees', decorated by the world's cutest 5yo and 8yo.

Me. Burns selects a baseball team of dead people.

Cards of Joe Morgan, Frank Robinson, Barry Larkin, and a bonus Aaron Judge!

Trying to recapture that 2021-3 magic! Just like the Braves!

Next Stop Detroit!

Go ahead and tell your 2013 self that Justin Turner was going to be one of the 65 best 3B ever when he retired.

I feel like Devers is another who should has spent his entire career in Boston...

Everyone with a mustache like this looks like a dad from the early 90s. I do not make the rules.

Kris Bryant, playing a rare game for the Colorado Rockies

I think Bregman should be a HOFer but for most he will have more work to do...

This uniform may look weird in a few years...

Manny Machado - future HOFer

That's right, I am the best 3B of my generation!

Yogi Berra 1987 Topps, somehow wearing an Astros jersey...

andres gimenez

From New York to Sacramento, that seems like a change...

I honestly don't have much to add about Nico Hoerner. He is a solid, 4 WAR player, a borderline all-star.

Yes, his career is now over but I am covering everyone who played in 2025 just in case. Still, quite a good career!

Yes, I think Ketel Marte is already one of the 50 best 2B ever...

Semien is closer to the HOF than you might think but he still needs a few more good years and is going to be 35 in 2026.

Hmm, what is on his chest?

100% NOT the reason he team lost the World Series

When you play well and still aren't as good as the guy you replaced (though slightly cheaper)

Its two seasons, is this going to be a 'wrong uniform' for Goldy?