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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 15m

I was only half-watching from the kitchen and assumed it was an easy can of corn. Then … chaos.

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 37m

Kent Hrbek-ass double play. Braves fans of a certain age have seen this movie before.

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Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social · 4h

This is really interesting stuff, and Canada has a very similar story with the Vancouver Asahi team in our internment camp. There's a tremendous National Film Board documentary on them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxBW...

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Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story

YouTube video by NFB

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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 2h

many Japanese Americans landed in Chicago after leaving the camps -- it behooves us all to learn more about this history!

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Harrison Golden @harrisongolden.bsky.social · 4h

At 6’1”, Tashima was a natural on the field, even as the U.S. government enacted unnatural cruelty upon Japanese Americans I was honored to pen a chapter about him for a book available now Order "How We Played the Game: Baseball at Manzanar, 1942-1945" via SABR.org or wherever you buy books online

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 6h

I wish I'd had this resource when I created my podcast season, but I also continue to feel that Diamond in the Rough: Baseball, Bigotry, & the Battle for America, Season 2, is some of the best work I've ever done, & a worthy complement to this new publication. blackwhiteandread.com/baseball-big...

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Baseball, Bigotry, and the Battle for America – Black and White and Read All Over

Season 2: Diamond in the Rough A system of horrific, inhumane camps where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated. Homegrown baseball diamonds at the camps that became sites of communal...

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Amie Cuevas @amiecuevas.bsky.social · 5h

Register for October’s Diamond Stories! Register: kent-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... What: SABR Women in Baseball Committee Who: Pam Schaffrath of the Colorado Silver Bullets When: Saturday, Oct. 3rd Time: 10-11am EST, 7-8am PST Open to Everyone: -SABR members -Baseball fans -You!

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 4h

Patrick is a stone cold freak for dropping writing this good into the intro of what is a useful, but fairly formulaic Game 2 preview format: www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

There’s an element to sports that sportswriters never weary of trying to capture, hacking through the kudzu of metrics and quotations to get at. It’s the paradox of a sense of overwhelming immortality, mixed with a sense of how fleeting that omnipotence is. Athletes hypnotize themselves into attaining it, fans slurp at it like a shallow oasis in the desert, writers build entire novels constructing a world to provide it. The Boston Red Sox lost a pair of games to the Washington Nationals by 15 runs around the end of June, and then seized that invincibility and held it for more than five full weeks, enjoying a run almost unparalleled in the history of baseball. It was like snorting cocaine while on a runner’s high after finding out you’d aced a college final and fallen in love, all at the same time.

Unfortunately, that time happened to be July, and by the end of September it was a happy memory. Baseball took that perfect month and chewed away at it with its sharp little teeth, as it always does, pulling at hamstrings and snapping bones. And on Tuesday, the capricious and hateful gods of baseball took it and provided it to one Ben Rice, handed him the thunderbolts to strike the heroes down. For one day it was the Yankees who were invincible, led by the league’s best pitcher and a hitter whose resting face might best be described as vague concern, even as their captain stood with his elbows on the dugout railing. The New York Yankees are now, today and only today, the greatest team in baseball. But maybe not tomorrow. The gods need fresh meat.

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 5h

Today SABR launched an incredible new book and companion website on Baseball at Manzanar: How We Played the Game, 1942-1945. It’s the story of 120,000 Japanese Americans who were removed from their homes after Pearl Harbor and forced to live at remote incarceration camps: sabr.org/baseball-at-...

Cover image for SABR’s “Baseball at Manzanar: How We Played the Game, 1942-1945,” edited by Russ Speiller and James Forr.

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 15h

Excited to unveil an incredible new SABR project tomorrow morning … stay tuned!

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Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 15h

Joe Musgrove strikes out the first batter he's faced in the Majors since 2024

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 15h

Joe Musgrove is the 2nd player to appear in a postseason game directly after not appearing in any game of the two prior regular seasons, joining: 1945 Clyde McCullough (1 WS game in 1945, after missing all of 1944-45 regular seasons due to military service) h/t @EliasSports

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James Smyth @jamessmyth621.bsky.social · 17h

George Lombard Jr. is the 2nd-youngest player to have 3+ hits in his postseason debut (21 years, 119 days) Gregg Jefferies had 3 in Game 1 of the 1988 NLCS for the Mets at the Dodgers (21 years, 64 days)

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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 18h

Ben Rice ascending to stardom an exact century after the decline of Zack Wheat

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 18h

Need another angle on this to see if it went off PCA’s glove.

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Kori Rumore Finley @chicagorumormill.bsky.social · 18h

San Diego #Padres and Chicago #Cubs fans both love chicken 🐔

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Bernie Lomax @bernielomax.extranapkins.net · 19h

The broadcast pretty much just read this article on the air

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 20h

If you’re curious re Musgrove: Excluding debuts, 1 player has appeared in a postseason game directly after not appearing in any game of the 2 prior regular seasons: 1945 Clyde McCullough (1 WS game in 1945, after missing all of 1944-45 regular seasons due to military service) h/t @EliasSports

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 20h

The Chicago White Sox have won a postseason game in 2026.

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 23h

With Ozzie Albies and J.T. Realmuto, this was the second game in postseason history with multiple go-ahead triples, joining 1993 WS G4, also involving the Phillies

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Chicago Tribune Sports @chicagosports.bsky.social · 23h

Chicago White Sox bring out the smoke before Game 1 of the wild-card series with a letter from Pope Leo XIV

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Chicago White Sox bring out the smoke before Game 1 of the wild-card series with a letter from Pope Leo XIV

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 23h

This is Austin Riley’s third career go-ahead homer in the 8th inning or later in the postseason That’s tied for the most in postseason history, with: Troy Glaus Bernie Williams Jose Altuve Freddie Freeman

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Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 23h

"Because sometimes shit happens" is such a hard way to explain sports, but it's so often the correct way

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reminder: The Braves can stop playing this anytime they choose.

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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The first ABS challenge in the history of the MLB postseason was...quite necessary

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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Playoffs haven't even started yet and the Braves almost had an injury when Ronald Acuña Jr. nearly ran into one of the pregame sparklers

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Curious how this NBC model of “color commentator from each team” will work for an entire playoff series. Just wish my team didn’t get Matty V on the call …

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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Two ideas, held at once: 1. Playoff expansion is bad for the regular season and makes the playoffs a slog. Eight teams is best. 2. The next 36 hours are a lot of fun. Enjoy the games, everyone.

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Lorene @lorene9.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm excited to announce that I am moderating a panel of @wpbl.bsky.social players at the SABR / @iwbc4me.bsky.social conference on October 10! It's a great conference every year, but it's my first time participating. Join us! #WPBL #APlaceofTheirOwn sabr.org/women-in-bas...

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2026 SABR/IWBC Women in Baseball Conference schedule – Society for American Baseball Research

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Todd Radom @toddradom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Baseball friends! The postseason is upon us. If you haven't acquired "The Ballpark and Beyond," now is the perfect time. Available wherever books are sold, with an audiobook version too, narrated by yours truly. If you have bought it, rate, review, spread the word—with thanks!

The Ballpark and Beyond, by Todd Radom, available wherever books and audiobooks are sold

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Gummy Arts @gummyarts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Fournier, Chicago White Sox, from the 1916 M101-5 Sporting News set

Colored-pencil card drawing of Jack Fournier

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Tracy Greer @pulhitzherprize.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Seems like a lot of folks are hearing the national anthem performed by mariachis for the first time! • It is Hispanic Heritage Month • Chicago has a very large Mexican population • Yes, it’s really cool • Where I’m from, large high schools often have a mariachi group as a subgroup to marching band

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

At Nisei Lounge in Wrigleyville, a love of baseball — and Malört — knows no bounds. buff.ly/2y0DE36

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sox Park is easily in my top 3 of *best-smelling* concourses in MLB. Miami and San Francisco are the others in contention. In the minors, Albuquerque is my #1 because of all the green chile roasting on the grills.

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In the 1970s, the BBWAA honored one living and one deceased member each year with what is now called the Career Excellence Award. That seems fine for this too. Honor the living while you can. No offense to Dizzy Dean, but he’s been dead for 52 years.

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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An historically dark day (two different sorts of darkness) for each of Chicago’s MLB teams. @buckweaver.bsky.social

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My grandma learned baseball later in life - from Kruk & Kuip, tuning in for almost every game in her final 15 years It wasn’t just that baseball was there when she needed its cadence & companionship most, it’s that it was THIS duo Forever grateful for their impact. On the game, and my family 🧡

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jadyn. @itsjadynnow.com · 28/09/2026

one of the best things that's happened for me as a braves fan is that they won a world series five years ago and that's allowed me to stop with the whole "world series or bust" thing and now just ride the ride.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 28/09/2026

new eve ewing dropped. also the photography book looks amazing

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SF Giants Bot @giantbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🤖 SF Giants on NBCS Kruk and Kuip forever 🧡 🖤

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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Max Scherzer was NOT coming out of this game! 😤

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 27/09/2026

Also his wife Erica was friends with Eireann Dolan when both Max and Sean Doolittle were on the Nats and the two of them spearheaded Nats’ Night Out for the LGBTQ+ community. I think you always can tell if a MLB player is A Good One by their partner.

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Portrait of an Advocate: An Interview With Erica May Scherzer, Polaris Ambassador

The first interview in Polaris’s new series spotlighting advocates involved in the fight against human trafficking.

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Game 162 outfit of COURSE!!

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Meghan Montemurro @mmontemurro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

PCA's 10.6 fWAR is 2nd in Cubs history behind Rogers Hornsby's 11.0 fWAR in '29. Only 8 MLB CFs with better fWAR: Willie Mays (10.7 in 1965), Ty Cobb (11.0 in 1911 & 11.5 in 1917), Stan Musial (11.0 in 1948), Aaron Judge (11.1 in 2022 & 11.2 in 2024) and Mickey Mantle (11.4 in 1957 & 11.5 in 1956).

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Chicago Tribune Sports @chicagosports.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Cubs and White Sox's postseason runs have included triumphs and tears for the last 120 years. The last time both teams made the postseason was 2020. The last time they met in the postseason was 1906.

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Vintage Chicago Tribune: How the Cubs and White Sox have fared in the postseason since 1906

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Tracy Greer @pulhitzherprize.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Meep meep 💛❤️💛

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