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When a Museum Devours its Own: The Mortal Threat to Adler & Sullivan's Stock Exchange Trading Room
ArchitectureChicago PLUS blog by Lynn Becker
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Manny Machado with a ridiculous throw from third base for the out.
A 17-year-old got Aaron Judge to ground into a bases-loaded double play on Friday night. First, he had to finish his social studies homework. Math homework kept him busy on Thursday. Meet Joseph Contreras, José's son and the youngest player in WBC history - www.nytimes.com/athletic/709...
This may also be the top highlight of the season for White Sox fans, too.
Bat 'sploded too
Great work! Have you seen this article on 4-XBH games? sabr.org/journal/arti...
Good luck! Have you tried to get in touch with James Brunson? Send me your email and I’ll be happy to connect you. He might know of other local sources (if any exist.)
Lemme share w/ y'all a ⚾ mystery that's haunted me for the last few years: In my hometown of Tyler, from 1883 through at least 1900, a pioneering black baseball team called the Tyler Athletics competed, and searching for them has been a lot like chasing ghosts. 🧵
It’s like a fun, quirky SABR presentation in a thread 😍
One day!
Mount Hope is where Buck and Helen Weaver were buried many years later.
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Michigan has become the first men’s basketball team since the 1975-76 Indiana Hoosiers to finish the Big Ten season undefeated in road games.
I wrote about that in this story. Her husband had purchased the family plot before Oak Woods before the cemetery began its policy of segregation. www.wbez.org/curious-city...
Another notable burial during this time period was that of great civil rights leader and journalist Ida B. Wells Barnett following her death in 1931. Wells was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). These burials were the few "exceptions" made during this time period. It is likely that they had purchased plots prior to the cemetery's attempts to restrict black burials all together, or that white families purchased the plots on their behalf.
She was one of the rare pre-1963 exceptions, according to www.hydeparkhistory.org/oak-woods-ce...
Today's column looks at what will be the final resting place of the Rev. Jesse Jackson: 19th Century landscape designer Adolph Strauch's solemn and picturesque Oak Woods Cemetery on the city's South Side.
John Cusack as Buck Weaver in “Eight Men Out”
You probably know my answer …
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1889 newspaper question and answer column that ruminates on the baseball of a decade earlier, when bettors and gamblers nearly ruined the game
1889, when sportswriters looked back on the era of sports gambling as a haunted time for baseball
I should have added per my link to the SABR bio, that George Burns is one of my historical favorites because he did so much - unassisted triple play, gave Joe Sewell his bat and Sewell used that bat (Black Betsy) in a HOF career, & much more. Damn fine career; underappreciated but excellent.
Awesome! Good luck with the book. Happy to help in any way I can.
I don’t know if people quite understand just how unbelievable @justmckinney.bsky.social is at this. If biographical sleuthing was an Olympic sport, first of all, heck yeah. Second of all, Justin is winning Gold and setting unbreakable records.
Original sketch for World Baseball Classic logo by Todd Radom, 2005
Original sketch, World Baseball Classic logo, 2005. Everything starts with something, somewhere, somehow. Back then you got a sense of what the event's potential could be, but you had to squint a little bit and project forward, far into the future.
Thanks very much to @benlindbergh.bsky.social and @megrowler.fangraphs.com for having me on Effectively Wild to preview the World Baseball Classic and talk about my book, We Sacrifice Everything to Baseball.
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Thank you!
Gonna rec some things about the Black Sox scandal.
It's a really important thing, if you care about sports. Topical, now. Given that MLB is jumping in w/ both feet.
First up, Eight Men Out gets some important details wrong, for dramatic reasons.
Steve is being treated like a domestic terrorist only for reporting on the Trump anti-immigrant “blitz” in the Chicago area.
He was detained but NOT charged - yet punished.
This is purely to deter those who question power or even observe what’s being done by DHS.
Again - #JournalismIsNotACrime
In 1953, Toni Stone became the first woman to play professional baseball in a major men's league, showing immense courage in the face of overt racism and sexism.
More Women's History Month spotlights: https://info.sports-reference.com/whm-spotlights
Oh, this would be wonderful to have again. I spent many years adding my games into the wonderful Sports Passport app. But then it was acquired by Momento (www.acmomento.com) and lost all of their stat-keeping export functions.
A photo of the Chicago skyline viewed from the north across a stretch of open blue water. The skyline is silhouetted against a light pastel sunrise sky
A wintry photo of the Chicago River surrounded by the dense downtown cityscape. There's an elevated train crossing a bridge in the foreground
A photo looking along elevated train tracks towards the distant Sears Tower under a bright blue sky
A photo of the Chicago skyline from the south taken from a park full of yellow winter grasses
Happy birthday Chicago!
"Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning."
My architecture column today. Art Institute tells the Sun-Times no decision has been made on the old CSE trading room, but adds "the east side of the building — where the Trading Room is located — represents the area where gallery space could increase the most."
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Two curling 🥌 stones have been stolen from the Cortina curling venue ahead of Paralympic competition.
Authorities are investigating. Competition will not be affected. Here’s what we know at this point: www.cbc.ca/sports/paral...
