The Cincinnati Red Stockings: Pioneers of Professional Baseball In the vast tapestry of American sports history, few moments stand as monumental as March 15, 1869—a day etched in the annals of baseball lore as the birth of professionalism in the sport. It was...
“People ask me what I do in the winter when there is no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” Rogers Hornsby Rogers Hornsby was possibly the greatest shortstop to ever play the game of baseball. Look up his statistics...
Author Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote “I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” As we go through our lives, we undoubtedly forget what brought us to the point we are now. In the case of a ballplayer, we...
Famed English author, journalist and essayist G.K. Chesterton wrote that “the true object of human life is play.” Apparently, the mysterious creators of baseball Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright must have read this quote as they implemented “Play Ball”...