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Adam Darowski
@adarowski.bsky.social
Executive Director of Design at Sports Reference. SABR member. Baseball history nerd. Negro Leagues & Latin American baseball researcher. Borussia Dortmund supporter. I schedule the baseball grids. Woke as fuck. He/him.
A little research question. If you go to a team page and you see this “Follow” button, what do you think it would do?
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Scantlebury was a teammate of León Kellman in eight of his seasons in Panama. I’ve been stuck writing Kellman’s SABR bio for a while now waiting to find more data from Panama. I think I’m going to just have to wrap it up in the next month or so.
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Scantlebury:

Pitched in three East-West All-Star games

Pitched in four Caribbean Series

Was inducted into the Latino Baseball Hall of Fame in 2012

Could HIT (.300+ in the Negro Leagues)

Overall, I have 184-138, 3.42 ERA, .266 AVG, 11 HR, but NOTHING from Panama.

🔗 darowski.com/outsider/sca...
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
🇵🇦 Panama’s Patricio Scantlebury was born 108 years ago in Gatún. The All-Star southpaw pitched for the New York Cubans from 1944-50 and appeared in 6 games for the Reds in 1956 at age 38. He pitched in the US, Canada, Cuba, Mexico, and the DR as well as a dozen seasons in his native Panama.
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
José Cruz just keeps getting closer to 4,000…

2251 AL/NL (17 postseason)
914 Puerto Rico (110)
545 Minors
106 Senior Professional League
24 Caribbean Series

TOTAL: 3,967 hits

He’s #1 all-time among players born in Puerto Rico.
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Latest stats for the 4,000 Professional Hit Club.

Here are the players with 3800+. Thanks to @cmcgill.bsky.social, we are even closer on José Cruz. Added 29 hits during the call.

And our new active leader? It’s none other than… Agustín Murillo? Playing for Hermosillo, the 43-year old passed 3,600!
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
polakoff is doing one of his “around the world” WhatNot shows right now. Reminded me that I snapped this one of my 67 Vennys the other day but didn’t post.

Here’s the show: www.whatnot.com/s/EJ3tta5u
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Fuck it, here’s one more. “Stay Woke” is an important one to me and contains a lot of personal mantras. I can’t believe what we’re doing to our younger generations. I’m so sorry we let you down. Out for real on Friday (along with “Anti-Antifa,”‘which was shared last Friday).
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
He’s been on me since 2:00 except for potty breaks
November 10, 2025 at 2:32 AM
4-way threat—hitter, defender, pitcher, and manager.
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
More Lázaro Salazar
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Lázaro Salazar’s funeral. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in the dugout while managing in 1957.
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Lázaro Salazar in the background with Cuban legends Martín Dihigo and Conrado Marrero.
November 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Career highlights and stats.
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I can’t tell you how much I want to read a full-length biography of Cuban P/1B/OF/MGR Lázaro Salazar. He played in Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, USA, and the Dominican Republic. A HOFer in Mexico, Cuba, and Venezuela, he won 14 league titles as manager (in 4 countries) before his tragic death at age 44.
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
He’s glued to me today. 💕
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
One of my favorite 4,000 hit guys is Nelson Barrera. If Héctor Espino is the Babe Ruth of Mexico, I think Barrera is the Lou Gehrig. When I presented at SABR, we had him at 4,054 hits and 614 HR. That was missing ALL playoff data.

Updated totals: 4,347 hits and 647 home runs.

However…
November 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Mine!
November 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Just one week until “Stay Woke” and “Anti-Antifa” are out. Here’s a clip of “Anti-Antifa” a quick ripper that doubles as a grammar lesson for those among us who are missing the point. Thank you to @davyandrewsdavy.bsky.social for providing the guitar solo for this one. Out November 14th!
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I end each day under a pile of dogs.
November 7, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Cuban OF Agustín Bejerano died on this day in 1972. He played from 1928-1954 and I’ve compiled 5627 AB. The speedster hit .307 and stole at least 351 bases. He was also patient with 11 seasons with a .400+ OBP in the Mexican League. He’s a HOFer in Mexico and Cuba.
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 AM
👀
November 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I missed a big birthday over the weekend. Víctor Pellot Power was born 98 years and 2 days ago. One of the smoothest dudes to ever play the game, Power had over 1700 hits in the majors, won 7 Gold Gloves, and had 4 All-Star seasons. He’s a HOFer in his native Puerto Rico and has over 3500 pro hits.
November 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
If this is indeed the ballot we see tomorrow, it’s worth noting that Bonds and Clemens could be facing permanent ineligibility if they fail to reach five votes (they both had <4 last time).
November 3, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I loved it up there. I even started writing again. “All My Axes Are Exes,” the first track on YAY!, was written just before a decade had lapsed since I had last written a song. Two more tracks followed and I published an EP in Jan 2015 called “Existential Crisis Songs.”
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM