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In the evolution of the openly gay athlete, there's still "work to be done" before more active pro players decide to raise their hands.

Congratulations to Steve Steinberg and Lyle Spatz who, within the next hour, will be accepting this year's Larry Ritter Award for their great Deadball Era book. I recently interviewed Steve about "Mike Donlin" here: onthenbabeat.com/2025/06/its-li…

I’m with former Rangers and Swallows pitcher Tony Barnette for another half-hour inside the Rangers’ Grand Slam Team Store. Say hello to meet TB and get signatures!

"I never thought I was very good at baseball." Once carrying the pressure of an entire nation on his back, Shin-Soo Choo now can look back on his remarkable career and legacy. I spoke with the outfielder following his KBO retirement ceremony. mlb.com/news/shin-soo-…

An obscure baseball player named Ed Mickelson died over the weekend. He was a great ambassador for the St. Louis Browns, a team he played for in 1953. That leaves only one member of the Browns: Billy Hunter, who is 97. Living memory of that sad-sack franchise is almost gone.

Thank you. I love hearing this and look forward to hearing what you think after making more of a dent.

Btw, I love the construction of this. So artistic. Added bonus (and I'm curious if it was intentional): The Alaska Airlines plane is in the background, and Tony Barnette remains one of only 12 MLBers to ever hail from Alaska. Schilling is most famous baseball-reference.com/bio/AK_born.sh…

Oh no, journalism. Look at this ESPN headline: Once it's submitted, they might not be able to change the url, but someone should have caught the typo in the headline and fixed it. I hate seeing stuff like this.

What's incredible about the DR dream team ... is I largely expect most of the final roster to resemble this

As expected, @SABR 53 was amazing. Tony Barnette & I loved presenting at Rob Fitts' Asian Baseball Committee meeting. We're doing something similar via Zoom this Thursday at 8 p.m. EDT, and it's open to all. Please register here. We really want to see you: bit.ly/4lHQfUi

Huge news! Baseball Czech OF Marek Chlup — who doubled off Roki Sasaki at the WBC — has been called up by the Yomiuri Giants. He’ll be the first Czech player to appear in the NPB. baseballstatcz Japanese source: hochi.news/articles/20250…

The Most Impressive thing I saw the entire All Star week? This 10 Year old girl has the Best Pitching Mechanics I've ever seen in a kid. 🤯 Literally. She's about 4'8" and topped out at 63 mph (without any warmup).

The Tokyo Yakult Swallows are currently the worst team in NPB, are 10.5 games back of a playoff spot and have all their best players on the IL. If they were an MLB team, the stands at Meiji Jingu Stadium would be empty. Instead, they looked like this:

Over the years I haven’t loved some of the WNBA arguments for higher pay but now it’s pretty simple. If the Vegas Aces sell for $2m in 2021 and are supposedly worth $290-$310m now, why would you expect the players to receive just 9% of the revenue? The Valkyries expansion fee was

Thanks to The Baseball Book Club for having me on to discuss my Japanese baseball book. I enjoyed the conversation, which was released earlier today: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mr-…

On Ichiro's @BaseballHall #Induction day, congratulations to Ted Heid and Jim Colborn, two then-Seattle Mariners staffers who identified #51's talent and brilliantly won the posting. Few big league teams were on Ichiro at the time, and the M's were all over it. 🇯🇵⚾️

Join us on Facebook for an Author Series program with Aaron Fischman as he discusses his book A Baseball Gaijin: Chasing a Dream to Japan and Back. ow.ly/5seR50WyamC