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Pages from Baseball's Past

Craig Wright

"Pages from Baseball's Past" is a non-fiction story series drawn from the history of the game. It is rigorously researched for accuracy, but the central intent is to tell good stories that entertain while lightly adding to the audience's knowledge.

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Tommie Leach

Hidden in the deadest part of the Dead Ball Era was a grand ballplayer who probably deserves a plaque in the Hall of Fame.

Tommie Leach was 5-feet-6 and barely weighed 150 pounds in his prime. He grew up in the same Irish neighborhood as t...

3 days ago
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Stars of the Deadest Part of the Dead-Ball Era

The period of the modern foul strike rule coinciding with the rubber-centered baseball is a small segment of baseball history — just nine years in the National League, seven in the American League. Call it the DDBE, the deadest of the Dead...

7 days ago
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The Cork-Ball Experiment - Part 2

A batch of baseballs were sent out in August of 1910 under the guise of being the same type of baseball used that whole season. It was actually the secret introduction of Cork-Ball 2.0.

The language in Ben Shibe’s patent for a baseball usi...

10 days ago
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The Cork-Ball Experiment

The introduction of the cork-centered baseball in 1909 and 1910 was done in such secrecy and with limited bits of information, that the press had a hard time knowing what was going on, and their mistaken reporting has thrown off many histor...

14 days ago
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Why 60 Feet, Six Inches?

The modern pitching distance was set at sixty feet, six inches in 1893. If you ever wondered, “Why not just sixty feet?”, you need to follow the early evolution of the pitcher’s placement.

For over 130 years the pitching distance has held...

17 days ago
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    My career was pioneering the use of science in professional baseball that dominates the game today. My hobby has been researching and writing stories from the history of the game. My lifelong passion is the study and practice of effective thinking.

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