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Diamond quotes.

Mar 22, 2008 ... <Pre> "The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball." PAUL DICKSON "The only way to prove you're a good sport is to lose." ERNIE BANKS "With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that ...

"Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for Baseball": Charles O. Finley versus his players.(ARTICLES)(Biography)

Mar 22, 2008; Launius, Roger D. ... Kansas City Athletics pitcher Vida Blue uttered this title's quote after resolving a season-opening salary dispute and holdout with A's owner Charles O. Finley in May 1972. (1) The holdout finally ended after Major League Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn decided to mediate the dispute, and ...

The Gordon Base Ball Club of Chicago and the black sporting fraternity, 1884-1886.

Mar 22, 2008; Brunson, James E., III ... On March 5, 1884, Sporting Life published this item: "The Gordon Base Ball Club of Chicago, one of the best colored organizations, proposes to capture the championship of the United States. W. C. Sutliffe is the manager. The players in this club receive from $35 to $50 per week." (1) The ...

Louis "Count" Castro: the story of a forgotten Latino Major Leaguer.(Biography)

Mar 22, 2008; Garcia, Gilberto ... Louis Castro, a utility infielder, joined the Philadelphia Athletics in 1902, the year they won the American League pennant. The following essay documents the mysterious baseball career of a forgotten Latino Major Leaguer and places his story as an important beginning chapter in the ...

The rise of baseball's racial quota system in the 1950s.

Mar 22, 2008; Lowenfish, Lee ... Sportswriter John Lardner was a longtime observer and admirer of Branch Rickey. Assessing Rickey's St. Louis Cardinals before the 1934 season, a fiery outfit that would become immortalized as the Gashouse Gang, Lardner wrote presciently that Leo Durocher and Pepper Martin "have more energy ...

The impact of Curt Flood's Minor League baseball experiences on his lawsuit against Bowie Kuhn.(Biography)

Mar 22, 2008; Edmonds, Ed ... On October 8, 1969, Curt Flood, the St. Louis Cardinals star center fielder for more than a decade, received a telephone call from Jim Toomey, an assistant to St. Louis general manager Bing Devine, to inform him that he had just been traded to the Philadelphia Phillies. (1) A trade in ...

A history of South African baseball.

Mar 22, 2008; Chetwynd, Josh ... For most casual baseball fans, the sight of a South African team at the 2006 World Baseball Classic must have been befuddling. But after the team--made up almost exclusively of amateur players--took an 8-7 lead into the ninth inning against the established baseball nation of Canada, any ...

The tragedy of the Ehime Maru and the role of baseball in the healing process.

Mar 22, 2008; Ardlino, Frank ... The tragedy of the Ehime Maru and its aftermath illustrates an important aspect of human reaction to calamities. Official apologies, culturally sensitive recovery and treatment of the dead, financial settlements, and time all played essential parts in the healing process, but what aided ...

World War I and free agency: the fateful 1918 battle for Jack Quinn.(TRIPLE PLAY)(Biography)

Mar 22, 2008; Steinberg, Steve ... <Pre> The Quinn case all by itself soured once and for all the relationship between the two founding fathers of the American League. Eugene C. Murdock, Ban Johnson: Czar of Baseball </Pre> Jack (John Picus) Quinn had a remarkable baseball career that spanned more than three decades ....

John "Jack Quinn" Picus: not Polish, not Welsh, and not born in America at all.(Biography)

Mar 22, 2008; Michael, E. ... John "Jack Quinn" Picus is now a near-to-mythical baseball player from another era. He became a Major League baseball player with the New York Highlanders in 1909, and, based on the information to be presented in this article, he was definitely twenty-five years of age at the ...

Twice perfect: Jean Faut of the South Bend Blue Sox.(Biography)

Mar 22, 2008; Gorman, Bob ... In his book Perfect: The Inside Story of Sixteen Perfect Games, James Buckley Jr. describes the rarity of the "perfect game": since the founding of the National League in 1876 to 2002, opposing pitchers have had over 340,000 opportunities (170,000 games) to throw perfect games, but only ...

Still perfect after fifty years.

Mar 22, 2008; Zitrin, Richard ... I was there. A nine-year-old boy with a Dodgers cap in the enemy camp: Yankee Stadium, upper deck section 22, box 74A. October 8, 1956, Game 5 of the World Series, the day Don Larsen broke my heart and pitched a perfect game. Pen and scorecard in hand and not yet knowing the special ...

The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca, and the Shot Heard Round the World.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Newman, Roberta ... Joshua Prager. The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca, and the Shot Heard Round the World. New York: Pantheon, 2006. 498 pp. Cloth, $26.95. Just when it seems as if all that could possibly be said about "the shot heard round the world" has, indeed, ...

Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Treder, Steve ... Jonathan Eig. Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. 323 pp. Cloth, $26.00. This is a truly great era in which to be a baseball fan. I know, there are plenty of downsides to today's baseball experience. There's the ...

Carrying Jackie's Torch: The Players Who Integrated Baseball--and America.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Lowenfish, Lee ... Steve Jacobson. Carrying Jackie's Torch: The Players Who Integrated Baseball--and America. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2007. 264 pages. Cloth, $24.95. During the activist decade of the 1960s, comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory commented bitterly that if white ...

The Conscience of the Game: Baseball's Commissioners from Landis to Selig.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Shiner, David ... Larry Moffi. The Conscience of the Game: Baseball's Commissioners from Landis to Selig. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 226 pp. Paper, $24.95. What's in store for Major League baseball? No one can be certain. For about a quarter of a century, labor disputes ...

Baseball and the Media: How Fans Lose in Today's Coverage of the Game.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Bellamy, Rob ... George Castle. Baseball and the Media: How Fans Lose in Today's Coverage of the Game. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 266 pp. Paper, $24.95. The newspaper as a touchstone of American journalism and culture is crumbling. Circulation is declining in most metropolitan ...

Town Ball: The Glory Days of Minnesota Amateur Baseball.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Akin, William E. ... Armand Peterson and Tom Tomashek. Town Ball: The Glory Days of Minnesota Amateur Baseball. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. 411 pp. Cloth, $39.95. The past decade has witnessed the publication of a number of histories of baseball in a single state. Such studies ...

West Virginia Baseball: A History, 1865-2000.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Hill, John Paul ... William E. Akin. West Virginia Baseball: A History, 1865-2000. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. 239 pp. Paper, $29.95. Stereotypes about West Virginia and Appalachia have abounded for decades. Many people view the Mountain State and its surrounding region as a backwater area ...

Dreaming Baseball.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Carino, Peter ... James T. Farrell. Dreaming Baseball. Preface by Eliot Asinof. Afterword by Ron Briley. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2007. 316 pp. Cloth, $28.00. Author of more than twenty-seven novels and dozens of short stories and essays, James T. Farrell railed until his dying day ...