Say what you will about George Steinbrenner (that he ruined baseball with his spending, he’s a jackass, etc) but the fact remains that he paid the price to field a winning product.

In today’s game, with revenue sharing profit models such as the Marlins, Pirates, Indians, etc and teams holding down premium talent (rightfully so, but still…) in de-facto Nationals …

The Soul of Baseball

“I remember catching batting-practice home runs, she said.  “That was when baseball was still baseball.”
“I don’t mean to interrupt,” Buck O’Neil said, “but baseball is still baseball.”

The above quote pretty much sums up legendary Negro Leagues player, manager, Major League coach & scout, and ambassador for the game, Buck O’Neil.  Always meeting cynicism & negativity and turning …

Book Review – Juicing the Game by Howard Bryant

While this book is fairly comprehensive in baseball’s offense explosion before the Mitchell Report it doesn’t read very well and jumps from idea to another in a chapter.

Book Review: Satchel Sez

Frank Robinson - Letter to the Author 

Here is something new for MUD.  This is a edited letter I wrote to Frank Robinson after reading his 1987 bio Extra Innings.  This is a great read and it is not only a bio it also goes into the struggles that he and his contemporaries had in being the first black men to crack …