Just passing on a few links some of you might find fun/helpful:
Seamheads.com hasn’t forgotten their baseball history and even better, they write about it. Almost daily.
I’ve been following El Beisbol: The Story of Latinos in Baseball on Facebook. It’s eventually going to be a two-hour documentary on PBS. It’s still in production right now. Here’s the description:
The program begins with “Cubans Spread the Word” in the mid-1860. Then it moves through the many years that light-skinned Latinos played in the Majors while dark-skinned Latinos played in the American Negro Leagues. After the color barrier collapsed in 1947, black and mixed-race Latinos were recruited for their talent during the Jim Crow era. Although many great players broke into the majors during the mid-50s and throughout the 60s, they experienced harsh segregation and humiliation for being foreigners who could not speak English. By 1981, only journalists who spoke Spanish got the big interviews with pitching sensation, Fernando Valenzuela. As the program progresses through the 1990s through today, global controversies brew over contractual practices at Major League Baseball Academies in the Caribbean. Despite controversies surrounding the mistreatment of young Latino players, the last act celebrates the huge contribution of Latinos in baseball. Today Latinos represent a staggering 30% of Major League rosters.
I don’t know a whole lot about it other than what I’ve read on their website and that it was recommended by a faculty professor friend of mine.
Also, If you like big hair, big mustaches and baseball, you might like this. It’s a book called Big Hair & Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball In the 70s. I honestly haven’t read the book but am enjoying their Facebook posts and they take me for a ride through a ride to the 70s, one of my favorite decades for baseball.
Finally, many of you know I constantly heap praises on Baseball-Reference.com, justifiably so. Well, for those who are Football fans, there is a Pro-Football-Reference.com too.
