Steve Butts
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Steve Butts
@steveb72.bsky.social
Fan of baseball, garage rock and Americana music, craft beer, and living in Biddle City, Mi.
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FINAL
June 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Wiffle ball in style - thanks to Baseball Central’s owner TJ Runnells and his appreciation of baseball art.

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June 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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MLB is celebrating the 12 active Japanese players through custom manholes to be installed at locations associated with the player’s baseball roots in Japan. Cubs Suzuki's will be located in Arakawa Ward, Tokyo & Imanaga's in Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture.

Here's what they'll look like:
June 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Today on Beauty of a Game I talk with author Luke Epplin about how vintage sports cards inspire the cover design of his critically acclaimed books.

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Great Design Is In the Cards For These Book Covers
Author Luke Epplin Taps Into His Love of Vintage Sports Cards to Design Covers For His Critically Acclaimed Books
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June 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”
June 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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imagine if we had given billions in govt subsidies to Sun Ra instead
June 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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The Pope being a baseball fan means it's time for my favorite story. StL great "Ducky" Joe Medwick from the Gashouse Gang once met Pope Pious XII during a USO tour. He said, "Your Holiness, you and I have something in common." "What is that?" Pious asked.

"We were both once Cardinals."
May 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Pro-wrestling legend Dick Beyer wrestled his first match as the Destroyer on this date in 1962.
April 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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ah yes we're going into extras and true to the Manfred man, there's a runner in the night
April 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
SamurCy Skubal, “My
blade shall drink deeply this day.”
Orioles vanquished.
April 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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The Phillie Phanatic made his MLB debut on this date in 1978.
April 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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27000 days ago (May 22, 1951), 19-year-old Bob Lightbody, who’s missing his right hand, throws a three-hit shutout for Great Falls in the Class C Pioneer League. He eventually gets sent down to Class D ball and pitches well there, but his career ends in 1951, possibly due to injury.
The Jim Abbott of the Far West League
You surely remember Jim Abbott, the major league pitcher of the 1990s who was born without a right hand.  Rick Swaine, who wrote Abbott’s biography for SABR’s Baseball Biography Project…
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April 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Tyler Soderstrom, Athletics, 2024 Topps
#cardsky
April 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Reggie Jackson & a bunch of kids wearing what can only be described as "Late-'70s summer wear," 1979 #Yankees

#Baseball
April 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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ELLY DE LA CRUZ IS AMAZING
April 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Jack Lohrke survived the Battle of the Bulge and the invasion of Normandy during WWII—but the former Spokane Indians player found life and his baseball career just as perilous upon his return. #GoSpo
'Lucky' Lohrke survived 6 brushes with death
A version of this story was originally published in December 2021.
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April 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Remembering “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, born on this date in 1954
April 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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I’m a few days late on this one, but I’ve been meaning to draw this CJ Abrams home run (and Landon Knack reaction) ever since it happened last week…
April 17, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Chet Lemon, 1975 #Whitesox

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April 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Pro-wrestling legend George “the Animal” Steele was born on this date in 1937.
April 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Matthew Trueblood nails it: "[Jackie Robinson] brought diversity, equality and inclusion into the workplace, not diminishing meritocracy in the process, but introducing real meritocracy for the first time in the history of that workplace." twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/...
Happy Jackie Robinson Day, to All Who Celebrate
There's always what we say, and what we mean, and a gap between the two; what we mean to do, and what we really do, and a gap between the two. We all have a habit of saying what we mean to do, but wha...
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April 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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This is absolutely wild
The "Jackie Robinson Day background" section of MLB's official press release about Jackie Robinson just notes that he was a first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers who debuted in 1947. Nothing about the how, the why.
April 16, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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The largest paying crowd in the history of Wrigley Field was the day Jackie Robinson made his debut. Wrigley is the only park left Jackie played a game in. Mike Ryoko was a kid at that ballpark that day and he wrote about it. Take a minute and read this today.

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April 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Jackie Robinson. Boys Clubs of Boston Roxbury Clubhouse.
April 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM