I imagine there are some current players, having lived through the Angel Hernandez Era would like to resolve umpiring disputes with a post-game fistfight.
I have read all of your Substack work so far, and this is easily among the best. Turn-of-the-century baseball was really the last throes of America's Wild West mentality, huh?
I love to hear that--thanks for being here all this way!
The Butch and Sundance thing really surprised me. My brain doesn't put the Wild West alongside early baseball, but it was the same country at the same time, with the same people and attitudes. Train robberies in the west, cheating scandals in the east.
I imagine there are some current players, having lived through the Angel Hernandez Era would like to resolve umpiring disputes with a post-game fistfight.
Jazz Chisholm Jr. would be at the head of the line.
I have read all of your Substack work so far, and this is easily among the best. Turn-of-the-century baseball was really the last throes of America's Wild West mentality, huh?
I love to hear that--thanks for being here all this way!
The Butch and Sundance thing really surprised me. My brain doesn't put the Wild West alongside early baseball, but it was the same country at the same time, with the same people and attitudes. Train robberies in the west, cheating scandals in the east.