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150 years of baseball, all in one place: a Puerto Rico free since the Grito de Lares. Powered by Out of the Park Baseball.
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Gaceta de la LNP @lnpgaceta.org · Nov 19
Q: What is the LNP?

A: it's an #OOTP #baseball league, set in a Puerto Rico freed in the 1868 Grito de Lares—which in our world failed more or less instantly.

The Liga Nacional Puertorriqueña began play in 1871, and soon became its world's best baseball league.

It's our job to tell its stories.
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If, by the grace of God and the kindness of strangers, we hit our goal—my current triviathon record of $3,317—I will select one random donor and, during the fundraiser, dramatically read a poem they choose.

So get it done! Five days left to make it happen!
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1st Annual NSP Fundraiser! – No Substitutions, Please
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November 21, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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With five days left until our fundraiser, and despite Louisa's and my best efforts, we're still not where we want to be.

So we're busting out the big guns.

For each new organization you pledge for, I'll post a Clark pic.
For each new state, I'll post a Minnie pic.

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A daily report of the NSP fundraiser for November 20, which is 5 days before the stream: 25 organizations in 14 states (Alabama, California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Texas, Tennessee and Washington) and one territory (Puerto Rico) are pledged, up to a potential maximum of $2,158, calculated by multiplying 66 possible correct answers by the average of the two contestants' pledges per right answer. Louisa's lead has slightly decreased: she's at $35 per right answer, while Noah is still behind at $30. In very translucent text, on the back, you can see the list of organizations that have received pledges: American Indian Center of Chicago, City Harvest, El Comedor de la Kennedy, Community Loving, Denton Community Food Center, Feeding America, Food Bank of Delaware, Food Bank of North Alabama, Food Bank of South Jersey, Food Bank of the Southern Tier, Food Gatherers, Foodlink Rochester, Forgotten Harvest, Greater Chicago Food Depository, Houston Food Bank, Irondequoit Community Cupboard, North Texas Food Bank, Northlands Rescue Mission, Pike Market Food Bank, Rhode Island Community Food Bank, Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, Second Harvest Food Bank of Nashville, Southside Community Garden of Asheville, St. Lucy's Food Pantry and the INN.
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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One week left! We've added another org, another state, and another few dozen dollars.

Will you be the first from your state? Seven days until Louisa and I compete to answer 66 trivia questions and—hopefully—raise lots of money for food banks across the States!
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A daily report of the NSP fundraiser for November 18, which is 7 days before the stream: 22 organizations in 13 states (Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Texas, Tennessee and Washington) and one territory (Puerto Rico) are pledged, up to a potential maximum of $2,042, calculated by multiplying 66 possible correct answers by the average of the two contestants' pledges per right answer. Louisa's lead has slightly decreased: she's at $34 per right answer, while Noah is still behind at $28. In very translucent text, on the back, you can see the list of organizations that have received pledges: American Indian Center of Chicago, City Harvest, El Comedor de la Kennedy, Denton Community Food Center, Feeding America, Food Bank of Delaware, Food Bank of North Alabama, Food Bank of South Jersey, Food Bank of the Southern Tier, Foodlink Rochester, Forgotten Harvest, Greater Chicago Food Depository, Houston Food Bank, Irondequoit Community Cupboard, North Texas Food Bank, Northlands Rescue Mission, Pike Market Food Bank, Rhode Island Community Food Bank, Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, Second Harvest Food Bank of Nashville, Southside Community Garden of Asheville, and the INN.
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Gente, if you tried to donate overnight, we ran into some technical difficulties with those dastardly WPForms and, as a result, did not receive your kind entry.

Could we trouble you to try again?

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November 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Day 5:
I'm sure there are English words that express my gratitude, but it's late, I'm tired, and I don't have them just now.

This is wonderful—but we'd have to get all 66 questions right for that, and I want to get food banks as much money as possible.

So help me do that!
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A daily report of the NSP fundraiser for November 16, which is 9 days before the stream: 21 organizations in 13 states (Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Texas, Tennessee and Washington) and one territory (Puerto Rico) are pledged, up to a potential maximum of $1,878, calculated by multiplying 66 possible correct answers by the average of the two contestants' pledges per right answer. Louisa's lead continues to increase: she's at $32 per right answer, while Noah lags behind at $25. In very translucent text, on the back, you can see the list of organizations that have received pledges: American Indian Center of Chicago, City Harvest, El Comedor de la Kennedy, Denton Community Food Center, Feeding America, Food Bank of North Alabama, Food Bank of South Jersey, Food Bank of the Southern Tier, Foodlink Rochester, Forgotten Harvest, Greater Chicago Food Depository, Houston Food Bank, Irondequoit Community Cupboard, North Texas Food Bank, Northlands Rescue Mission, Pike Market Food Bank, Rhode Island Community Food Bank, Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, Second Harvest Food Bank of Nashville, Southside Community Garden of Asheville, and the INN.
November 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Day 4: I know I speak for my co-host when I say we are blown away by the incredible generosity our donors have shown.

I do *not,* however, speak for her when I say that I would really like to catch up to her lead!

Help me get a little closer, won't you? Pledge here:
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A daily report of the NSP fundraiser for November 15, which is 10 days before the stream: 17 organizations in 10 states (Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Texas and Washington) are pledged, up to a potential maximum of $1,518, calculated by multiplying 66 possible correct answers by the average of the two contestants' pledges per right answer. Louisa's lead has only increased: she's at $26 per right answer, while Noah lags behind at $20. In very translucent text, on the back, you can see the list of organizations that have received pledges: American Indian Center of Chicago, City Harvest, Denton Community Food Center, Feeding America, Food Bank of North Alabama, Food Bank of South Jersey, Foodlink Rochester, Forgotten Harvest, Greater Chicago Food Depository, Houston Food Bank, Irondequoit Community Cupboard, North Texas Food Bank, Pike Market Food Bank, Rhode Island Community Food Bank, Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, Southside Community Garden of Asheville, and the INN.
November 16, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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You know, I expected to see a bit of a jump in Day 2.

I did not expect to see this. Our potential max is up to nearly $700, before matching!

So why not join us? Just twelve days until Louisa and I go head-to-head to raise money for local food banks across the US:
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A daily report of the NSP fundraiser for November 13, which is twelve days left until the stream: 8 organizations in 6 states (Alabama, Florida, Illinois, New York, Rhode Island and Texas) are pledged, up to a potential maximum of $693, calculated by multiplying 66 possible correct answers by the average of the two contestants' pledges per right answer. Noah currently has a razor-thin lead on Louisa: every right answer from him will earn $11, while Louisa earns $10 for each right answer.
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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ANNOUNCING:
The 1st Annual No Substitutions, Please Thanksgiving Fundraiser!

Louisa and I will go head-to-head answering 66 trivia questions. We're asking people to pledge money for their local food banks for each one we get right.

Want to participate? Check out the form:
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Announcement poster for our 1st annual No Substitutions, Please fundraiser, which centers on a wreath crowned with food. Clockwise from the top; pumpkin pie, mac & cheese, biscuits, brussels sprouts, an ear of corn, rosemary, roasted sweet potatoes, parsley, a blue bowl of cranberry sauce, green beans, thyme, stuffing, a roast turkey leg, mashed potatoes with gravy, sage. The information: Who? Your favorite co-hosts, Noah and Louisa. When? Tuesday, November 25th, 7:00 PM Eastern. Where? Livestream on Twitch: @LNPGaceta. Why? To raise money for local food banks.
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Plus, in the spirit of @adapalmer.bsky.social, I'm matching the first $500 in donations.

So what are you waiting for? Sign up, pledge some money, and in two weeks from today you can have an absolute blast watching two nerds get outrageously competitive about food trivia!
nsmckinnon.bsky.social Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 9d
ANNOUNCING:
The 1st Annual No Substitutions, Please Thanksgiving Fundraiser!

Louisa and I will go head-to-head answering 66 trivia questions. We're asking people to pledge money for their local food banks for each one we get right.

Want to participate? Check out the form:
forms.gle/WSbvEkrJACxA...
Announcement poster for our 1st annual No Substitutions, Please fundraiser, which centers on a wreath crowned with food. Clockwise from the top; pumpkin pie, mac & cheese, biscuits, brussels sprouts, an ear of corn, rosemary, roasted sweet potatoes, parsley, a blue bowl of cranberry sauce, green beans, thyme, stuffing, a roast turkey leg, mashed potatoes with gravy, sage. The information: Who? Your favorite co-hosts, Noah and Louisa. When? Tuesday, November 25th, 7:00 PM Eastern. Where? Livestream on Twitch: @LNPGaceta. Why? To raise money for local food banks.
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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By the end of Day 1, our wonderful donors have pledged a potential max of almost $200 for food banks in their areas—and that's before any matching we do!

Join us! 13 days left until Louisa and I go head to head to help feed people this Thanksgiving:
forms.gle/VtgTXMHooaY8...

Details below!
A daily report of the NSP fundraiser for November 12, 13 days left until the stream: 4 organizations in 4 states (Alabama, Illinois, New York and Rhode Island) are pledged, up to a potential maximum of $198. Noah and Louisa are tied, with both currently raising $3 for each answer they get right.
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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We've been negligent about getting our videos uploaded, so we're fixing that today.

Let's start with a developmental match (i.e., even we have no idea what the hell is going to happen) between @kristencrossing.bsky.social's Malditos de Naguabo and the Zumbadorcitos de Vieques:

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1907.06.01 - Zumbadorcitos de Vieques at Malditos de Naguabo
YouTube video by Liga Nacional Puertorriqueña
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November 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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TONIGHT:
When we counterprogram the World Series, we want to bring the heat.

So it's #LNPAfterDark tonight, which means @nsmckinnon.bsky.social and Louisa can swear and read the more risqué ads they've found in old-timey newspapers. Sound good?

fun begins at 8:05 PM EDT:
www.twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
A slide for our stream tonight: it's a sapphire-tiled background with a golden compass rose and three chevrons pointing right. The text says "International Waters: an alt-history OOTP 26 baseball stream."
October 31, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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TONIGHT:
You could watch the World Series, sure—or you could take in a legitimate baseball product!

The 🧭 #Navegadores, fresh off another incredible season, take on the 🐐 #Chupacabras in the first round of the LNP playoffs!

fun begins at 7:05 PM EDT:
twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
A slide for our stream tonight: it's a sapphire-tiled background with a golden compass rose and three chevrons pointing right. The text says "International Waters: an alt-history OOTP 26 baseball stream."
October 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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TONIGHT:
It's the 1907 Partido de Campeones! Come watch the best hundred players in the Liga Nacional Puertorriqueña fight it out.

Does 🔴 Betances take it this year? Or will it be 🔵 Hostos?

fun begins at 7:05 PM EDT:
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We are the writers, streamers, and other workers who present to you 150 years of baseball in a liberated Puerto Rico.
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October 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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After the 6th inning:

🧭 Navegadores 2
🦜 Cotorras 0

Despite a lot of Naguabo sound and fury, other than 🇵🇷 Benji Valdez’s two-run single, the Naves are hanging on to a thin lead. Can they hold on?

We’ve got a poetry reading in less than an inning! Hop in!
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International Waters: Game 86, vs. Cotorras de Río Grande (51-39)
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September 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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9/26 (tonight!):
We couldn't get the all-lefty lineup we wanted, but the 🧭 Navegadores nonetheless welcome the reigning champion 🦜 Cotorras to town.

Commercials! Poetry! Fun with LNP history! And more, courtesy of Louisa and @nsmckinnon.bsky.social!

fun begins at 7:05 PM EDT
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LNPGaceta - Twitch
We are the writers, streamers, and other workers who present to you 150 years of baseball in a liberated Puerto Rico.
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September 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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We’re allowed our little Olympic team and our flag-covered cars and our fried plantains, so long as we remember our place and express our gratitude when the Americans come to town to indulge their national adolescence.
July 3, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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If there is one thing that lights the revolutionary fire within me to burn hot and sky blue, it is that this fucking cesspool of a country has forced me and my people to scrape and bow and apologize and be *proud* of our “kindness,” which is really the servile character that’s been forced on us.
July 3, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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He had to swallow his pride in two languages, to carry the baseball reputation of an entire country on his back for a good portion of his career, and yet he held himself to a higher standard than every suburban white boy raised to be a top 100 prospect who pretends like no one ever believed in them.
July 3, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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Clemente got routinely slagged off as a hypochondriac, malingerer, layabout, time bomb, and everything else by a sports press that didn’t know how to deal with an Afro-PR player who was incredible on the field and had the audacity to be proud of it, and yet he learned to distinguish friend from foe.
July 3, 2024 at 1:34 PM
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This—from David Maraniss’ bio of Clemente—is why he’s the GOAT to me.

Much of this book is devoted to talking about Clemente’s unique willingness to apologize, and I think about how now people let pro athletes off the hook in a way they don’t any other profession, while pretending they’re like us.
The quote is way too long for alt text so I’ll summarize: Milton Gross, an NY Post writer, tells of a time when he wrote a positive story based on a long interview with Roberto Clemente and Clemente was angry with him, calling it “horseshit.” Gross was of course offended by this. Weeks later, Clemente apologized to Gross because, he had discovered, he had been given a false impression of the story by a friend of his, and he had told his friend they were no longer friends since the guy had lied to him. Gross closes with a reflection on the rarity of a ballplayer admitting he was wrong and adds: “Clemente didn’t need me but he felt it incumbent upon himself to tell me that he had done me an injustice.”
July 3, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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Alt text for the rest of that second page, from David Maraniss’ Clemente bio, which I finished yesterday after months of being unwilling to get to the sad part.

Clemente gave everything he had to baseball, but unlike so many of his successors, he also gave everything to others. Including himself.
“At Clemente's sweetest moment of glory, in the dugout after his Pittsburgh Pirates won the 1971 World Series, he brought pride to all of Latin America by choosing to speak in Spanish to honor his parents back home. Thirty-four years later, when another Latino, Ozzie Guillen, the Venezuelan manager of the champion Chicago White Sox, stood atop the baseball world, he too paid homage, revealing that in the study of his house he kept a shrine to the one baseball figure he honored above all others, Roberto Clemente. For many years after Clemente's death, Tony Taylor, the Cuban infielder, made a point of walking young Latino teammates out to the right field wall whenever they visited Pittsburgh to give them a history lesson about the great Clemente. He is your heritage, Taylor would tell them, but more than that he is what you can become.”
July 5, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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I think a lot about how Clemente had the most Puerto Rican death a ballplayer can have: so busy trying to do something no one else was doing that he didn’t stop to think that he was getting on a colossal death trap—because he cared more about Nicaraguan victims of an earthquake than his own life.
“The mythic aspects of baseball usually draw on clichés of the innocent past, the nostalgia for how things were. Fields of green. Fathers and sons. But Clemente's myth ares the other way, to the future, not the past, to what people hope they can become. His memory is kept alie as a symbol of action and passion, not of reflection and longing. He broke racial and language barriers and achieved greatness and died a hero. That word can be used indiscriminately in the world of sports, but the case definitine uses omeone who gives his life in the service Kohers, ada hat is exactly what Clemente did. He was also the real-softle caly Latino players in a game that is increasingly dominated . . . by Spanish-speaking athletes. Ramirez, Martinez, Rodriguez, Pujols, Rivera, Ortiz, Beltran, Tejada, Guerrero- these are the names of baseball today, among the 204 Latinos who opened the 2005 season on major league rosters, about one-quarter of all players. Puerto Rico itsel has mostly moved on to basketball and other faster-paced sports, leaving the baseball obsession more to the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, but the story of how Clemente was the best among them is passed along from generation to generation, country to country.” There’s more, but it doesn’t fit in the alt text and it’s worth reading in its entirety, so I’m putting it in the next skeet.
July 5, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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Didn’t know this article existed until today, but this is the exact quality that makes Roberto Clemente my GOAT. He not only sought to be the best damn baseball player of his era, and achieved that (argue with your nearest wall), but to be a positive influence on the world. sabr.org/journal/arti...
Roberto Clemente: Baseball Rebel – Society for American Baseball Research
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September 15, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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‪An entire life, on the diamond and off it, spent reminding us of one of the most immutable truths of the universe:

When you want the job done right, you call the boricua. 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷‬

Happy Roberto Clemente Day.
A painting of Roberto Clemente, wearing the classic Pirates white vest with the fancy 21 on the back and the black sleeves, having just undoubtedly lined the crap out of some terrible breaking ball a pitcher tried to slip past him.
September 15, 2024 at 3:21 PM