Scott Simkus
@scottsimkus.bsky.social
Author: Outsider Baseball: The Weird World of Hardball on the Fringe. Historian: Member of the Seamheads team, rebuilding Negro league stats.
Post you from a different era
November 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Post you from a different era
Fun mail day, courtesy of my good pal Jason @heavyjstudios.bsky.social Finally got my hands on a Jackie. Thanks for the fun additions!
November 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Fun mail day, courtesy of my good pal Jason @heavyjstudios.bsky.social Finally got my hands on a Jackie. Thanks for the fun additions!
Phil’s Christopher Sanchez is roughly the same size as another Philly lefty: 1930s Philadelphia Stars ace Slim Jones. 6’6” stringbean, star in the old Negro National League
October 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Phil’s Christopher Sanchez is roughly the same size as another Philly lefty: 1930s Philadelphia Stars ace Slim Jones. 6’6” stringbean, star in the old Negro National League
Important: Cal Raleigh looks like actor Chris O’Dowd
October 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Important: Cal Raleigh looks like actor Chris O’Dowd
Family/Baseball Note: My Aunt Lynn (she's 75 years old) married longtime partner David Bessent in Florida today. David's Uncle is the late Don Bessent, who pitched for Brooklyn in the 1950s. Congrats to Aunt Lynn and David!
July 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Family/Baseball Note: My Aunt Lynn (she's 75 years old) married longtime partner David Bessent in Florida today. David's Uncle is the late Don Bessent, who pitched for Brooklyn in the 1950s. Congrats to Aunt Lynn and David!
Halfway through your book. Excellent writing! Nice work. Also...feeling incredibly bummed out about some of our fellow human beings...
June 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Halfway through your book. Excellent writing! Nice work. Also...feeling incredibly bummed out about some of our fellow human beings...
August 1945: During a traffic stop, a Washington DC cop punched Satchel Paige in the face a couple times. Satch had just thrown 3 innings, striking out 6 Homestead Grays batters. (New Journal and Guide, Norfolk VA)
June 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM
August 1945: During a traffic stop, a Washington DC cop punched Satchel Paige in the face a couple times. Satch had just thrown 3 innings, striking out 6 Homestead Grays batters. (New Journal and Guide, Norfolk VA)
Andrew Chafin reminds me of the late, great Rod Beck
June 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Andrew Chafin reminds me of the late, great Rod Beck
Useless Fact: During their professional baseball careers, Micheal Jordan hit THREE times as many Minor League home runs (3) as Babe Ruth did (1)! Ruth had 714 more than MJ at the big league level.
May 28, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Useless Fact: During their professional baseball careers, Micheal Jordan hit THREE times as many Minor League home runs (3) as Babe Ruth did (1)! Ruth had 714 more than MJ at the big league level.
Did Maury Wills spend any extended period of time in Hawaii? He looks like he could be Bruno Mars' dad
May 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Did Maury Wills spend any extended period of time in Hawaii? He looks like he could be Bruno Mars' dad
Don't sleep on the Jardiance baseball team this season. Everybody knows the AL West is up for grabs
April 2, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Don't sleep on the Jardiance baseball team this season. Everybody knows the AL West is up for grabs
Picked this up several years back. Cuban-Dominican All Star game. Can't place the year, care to hazard a guess @adarowski.bsky.social ?
March 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Picked this up several years back. Cuban-Dominican All Star game. Can't place the year, care to hazard a guess @adarowski.bsky.social ?
Red says "whenever I see someone overswing and lose control of the bat, I think of Pepper Martin." Apparently the famous Gas House Gang thirdbaseman was known for launching Louisville Sluggers around the park, whenever he swung and missed.
March 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Red says "whenever I see someone overswing and lose control of the bat, I think of Pepper Martin." Apparently the famous Gas House Gang thirdbaseman was known for launching Louisville Sluggers around the park, whenever he swung and missed.
Listening to a 1957 Dodgers-Reds radio broadcast (w/Vin Scully in the booth), and after a double play, Lucky Strike was "going to send 1,000 cigarettes to a VA Hospital" as part of a promotion..
The entire broadcast was pretty much sponsored by Lucky Strike and Schaefer Beer...
The entire broadcast was pretty much sponsored by Lucky Strike and Schaefer Beer...
March 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Listening to a 1957 Dodgers-Reds radio broadcast (w/Vin Scully in the booth), and after a double play, Lucky Strike was "going to send 1,000 cigarettes to a VA Hospital" as part of a promotion..
The entire broadcast was pretty much sponsored by Lucky Strike and Schaefer Beer...
The entire broadcast was pretty much sponsored by Lucky Strike and Schaefer Beer...
Joe DiMaggio and a lady with a broken foot
February 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Joe DiMaggio and a lady with a broken foot
I collect Strat-O-Matic card sets (mostly baseball, but also some 80s NBA, and football). For the initiated: Strat has created realistic, text-based tabletop sports games since the early 1960s.
February 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I collect Strat-O-Matic card sets (mostly baseball, but also some 80s NBA, and football). For the initiated: Strat has created realistic, text-based tabletop sports games since the early 1960s.
Red Kress wants to congratulate you on the second printing…
January 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Red Kress wants to congratulate you on the second printing…
Rickey’s boyhood home (teenage years), Oakland.
December 23, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Rickey’s boyhood home (teenage years), Oakland.
Man, the childhood heroes keep disappearing. RIP Man of Steal
December 21, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Man, the childhood heroes keep disappearing. RIP Man of Steal
This ridiculously bad photoshop job was highly coveted in Chicago. Kong was a big deal for every Cubs kid here from 1978-79. You knew this card was garbage, but had to have it!
December 6, 2024 at 10:25 AM
This ridiculously bad photoshop job was highly coveted in Chicago. Kong was a big deal for every Cubs kid here from 1978-79. You knew this card was garbage, but had to have it!
My Dad’s 1969 Batting Championship trophy (beer league stuff) is one of those things I won’t part with. He introduced me to the game and its history. Dad would’ve been 88 this December.
November 16, 2024 at 5:57 PM
My Dad’s 1969 Batting Championship trophy (beer league stuff) is one of those things I won’t part with. He introduced me to the game and its history. Dad would’ve been 88 this December.