Indy Neidell's Baseball History Time Machine

The 1968 Winter Meetings saw a lot of changes happening to baseball, a lot of them made to somehow get more bodies into the ever emptier stadia, as the lack of offensive was driving away casual fans by the middle of the decade. One such change is known today as the Gibson Rule, but does it really deserve that name? Also- sidetracks into things like Mike Shannon's career, why the owners were being exceptional dicks just that winter, and what in the world is the Global League?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In yet another installment of the Tragic Tales series we take a look at Lyman Bostock and Austin McHenry. Of course, there are the usual sidetracks into things like Pickles Dillhoefer, the brief major league career of Red McColl and St. Louis team nomenclature, and plenty more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What do we get today? We get Chick Stahl, the 1920 World Series, a sidetrack about mayonnaise, single season headhunter records, and Carl Mays' career story.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Today we continue telling tragic baseball tales with perhaps the most famous one- the death of Ray Chapman, but there's also the usual side stories and sidetracks, digging into topics like Lightning Ray Caldwell, the 1920 AL pennant race, Wimpy's, and the much anticipated story of Jack Quinn.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A couple of tragic baseball deaths today for you, and the full story of Jim Creighton's rise to stardom and what he brought to baseball in his brief, tragic career, as well as side tracks into things like 1860s cricket play and the evolution of the called strike.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.