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The Gross Racism that Cheated the Legacy of Dick Allen
Dick Allen was a seven-time All-Star, the 1964 National League Rookie of the Year, and the 1972 American League MVP. He won two home run titles, led his league in on-base percentage twice and OPS four times....
Death, Taxes & MLB Players Being Stupid
It was yet another banner day for MLB, which seems to be having them one after another. They’ve sat next to the cooler at the casino, by choice, except that they’ll still walk out of the casino with most of their chips. After all, it’s not their chips they’re playing with. And if the players continu...
The Mourning After: Gruden Gonna Gruden, MLS Gonna MLS & MLB Gonna Step on More Rakes
We’ll start with the truly weird, or at least it would be if it weren’t the world of football coaches. We should have guessed that some coach would have taken the situation in the world and used it to perform some sort of deluded, self-designed Rorschach test on their own team. Which is exactly what...
The Mourning After: Moonshots Galore
- No league can like it when, every time their commissioner opens his mouth, it immediately becomes a jenkem distillery (go ahead and Urban Dictionary THAT, I dare ya!), but that’s where MLB finds itself. Rob Manfred ran to the press, stood on the bucket he carries so we could see more than his fore...
Baseball's 2020 Playoff Plans Are Simultaneously Absurd and Perfect
Major League Baseball’s plan for this fall, an expanded postseason in which 16 of 30 teams have a chance to win the World Series, is patently ludicrous....
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Phillies Staff Members Test Positive for COVID-19 as Baseball Season Continues “Breaking Bad” [UPDATED]
The baseball season is teetering on the brink....
Catching Up With the Kid Who Helped Get MLB to Right a Decades-long Wrong for Negro Leaguers
Cam Perron started flipping baseball cards in first grade....
Cash-Strapped MLB Owner Finds $350 Million for Mookie Betts
Baseball is probably be delighted that the discussion today shifted from the Blue Jays not having a home because playing a sport at this time is gruesomely asinine, or that six different Royals have tested positive, to on-field matters. Or on-field as much as a player signing an extension is concern...
Bryce, the Braves, and a Buffalo World Series? Our MLB Roundtable Predicts a Wild Season
It is, somehow, about to be baseball season, so Deadspin’s elite crew of people who have been tasked with making predictions about the 2020 MLB season, Chris Baud, Sam Fels, Julie DiCaro, and Jesse Spector, are here to make predictions about the 2020 MLB season. Everyone recognizes that this is a te...
At the Intersection of Sports and COVID, Ballplayer-Turned-Doctor Mark Hamilton Has a Perspective All His Own
Dr. Mark Hamilton has a unique vantage point on the return of sports during COVID-19. Hamilton is a medical doctor finishing up his residency at Northwell Health in New York, but less than 10 years ago he was in the majors getting a cup of coffee on a St. Louis Cardinals team that won the World Seri...
Alyssa Nakken Becomes the First Woman to Coach On-Field in MLB
Major League Baseball’s first woman to coach in an on-field capacity took to the red clay during a San Francisco Giants exhibition game on Monday. ...
America Might Finally All Rise for Aaron Judge in 2020
MLB needs Aaron Judge — even more than the New York Yankees do....
Dan Snyder Is Just The Beginning, Sports Is Full Of Rotten Team Owners
At this point, it feels like Dan Snyder’s days are numbered....
MLB Gambling Guide/Futures Bets To Make For Wild 2020 Season
Baseball season is finally just about here. Well, on American soil that is, as this has already been the case in other parts of the world for weeks and months now....
Introducing the MLB COVID Index: Ranking Each Baseball Team’s Coronavirus Schedule Score
The coronavirus pandemic gets worse by the day in the United States. Giants icon Buster Posey is the latest player to opt out of playing this season. Mike Trout, the best player in the game, remains uncertain about what to do. But Major League Baseball presses on, having announced its 60-game schedu...
This is Going Great: Where MLB Stands with COVID [UPDATED]
When last we left our intrepid MLB, it was crowing about getting guys into summer camp (sponsored by Camping World!) and making a naked bid to get Domino’s Pizza to sponsor their health “plan.”...
Ian Desmond, Baseball, and Living in Someone Else's Home
A friend messaged me early this morning about an Instagram thread by Ian Desmond that I had to read....
Sports Returning is the Perfect Statement About What We Are
With MLB’s announcement last week that it will officially return, every major professional league is in the pool. The NWSL started this past weekend in Utah. MLS will start next week with a tournament in Orlando. As we move along, the NBA, NHL, and WNBA will return with their various plans. Lurking ...
30 Reasons Why Baseball Isn’t Ready to Return
Here’s hoping that you enjoyed that 35 minutes of feeling good about baseball on Tuesday night....
Josh Gibson and the Long Gone Summers That Should Have Been
The following is adapted from the podcast script for Stick to Pods Episode 11, “Josh Gibson,” which originally aired on April 12, 2018...