Fabulous book!

Favorite thanksgiving tradition: The first time I had Thanksgiving with my now-wife and her family, her then-13-year-old brother jokingly suggested we do the wave at the end of the meal. Which we did that day and for the ~30 following Thanksgivings.

Maybe when Retrosheet “finishes” the major leagues (in a decade or so), we’ll move on to the PCL. A quick newspaper search for Statz in June 1929 pulled up play-by-play accounts in the Los Angeles Evening Express and the San Francisco Bulletin. No idea how many of those there are.

Having a dog is awesome 98% of the time. This is the other 2%.

I’m too online. I read “threw an English muffin” and my brain auto-filled “at an ICE agent”. You go, girl!

Not just a no-hitter. David Whatley also hit for the cycle in the game. I believe that was the only major-league game with both a no-hitter and a cycle. retrosheet.org/NegroLeagues...

One of the saddest parenting milestones is when they get old enough to want to eat their own candy. Trick-or-treating with a 1-year-old is the best!