Back when I was in seventh grade, around 1991, I went to Campus Middle School in Englewood, Colorado. My gym teacher was Mr. Gott. At the time, I was a huge baseball fan and knew of all the baseball players. But I never put two and two together that Mr. Gott was related to Jim […]
2021 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
The 2021 Baseball Hall of Fame ballots were just released yesterday. I’m not a member of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, so I can’t vote, but it’s always fun to speculate what I would do if I could. I don’t believe in withholding the Hall of Fame from players suspected of taking steroids, or […]
Meet the 2020 Heroes of Baseball
The Los Angeles Dodgers are World Series Champions in 2020. This weird, shortened season is now over. That means it’s time for me to pick five new Heroes of Baseball. As I’ve done every year for many years now, I pored over the stats and selected five new players to join the Heroes of Baseball. […]
Meet the 2019 Heroes of Baseball
Each winter, I pore over the stats and select five new players to join the Heroes of Baseball. I look mainly at All-Star Game appearances and Wins Above Replacement—relative to peers—to make my choices. A player that I select to be a Hero of Baseball is an active player who is about halfway into an […]
How to Get Baseball Autographs Through the Mail
I enjoy collecting autographs of my favorite baseball players. There are several ways to get player autographs. I have some acquired the traditional way, where you go to a game with things you want to be signed and try to corner your favorite players. For baseball card collectors, autographed cards are often randomly inserted into […]
The 25 Best 19th Century Baseball Players
Baseball-Reference’s Career Leaders for Wins Above Replacement list is a great starting place for ranking the best baseball players in history. While there are some things I would change about this method of determining players’ greatness, it is one of the best approximations of player strength out there. Here’s a glance at the greatest 25 […]