Elephant Rumblings: Matt Olson and Matt Chapman the best 1B/3B duo in DRS history

A’s Coverage:

• Seamheads podcast: Guest Melissa Lockard (Apple) | (Stitcher) | (Spotify)
• Simon: Are Matt Olson and Matt Chapman the best corner duo in the “Runs Saved Era”?
• Coffey: From manager to mentor to friend: A bond between Bob Melvin and Craig Counsell ($$$)
• Hickey: Korea Gets Same Treatment From ESPN that A’s, Twins, Rays, Indians & Nationals Know All Too Well

MLB News:

• Yoo and Ha: ESPN seeking free rights to broadcast S. Korean baseball games: sources

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• Byrne: A Costly Draft Decision
• Byrne: Replacing J.T. Realmuto
• Petriello and Leitch: Ranking every ROY from 2000s: Who’s on top?
• Lupica: A chat with Hank Aaron, on his love for the game
• Justice: These 9 trades won World Series last decade
• Leitch: A lot better than you remember: Moises Alou
• Clair: Transport to the ‘90s with this wild Rays promo
• MLB Quiz of the Day: Top MLB Draft prospects
• Chesterton: The story behind every team’s mascot
• Stark’s Strange But True Files: The night the impossible happened, Bartolo edition ($$$)
• Calcaterra: Today in Baseball History: Casey Stengel fined for appearing in a beer ad

Today in Baseball History:

• 1901 - Three rain postponements give Chicago the honor of hosting the first major league game in American League history (the circuit played as a minor league in 1900). At South Side Park, a crowd of over 10,000 fans attends the game to see pitcher Roy Patterson take the win for the Chicago White Sox over the the visiting Cleveland Blues, 8 - 2. Clark Griffith manages Chicago.
• 1945 - Happy Chandler becomes the second baseball commissioner. The major league owners unanimously elect the former governor of Kentucky on the first ballot and reward him with a seven-year contract. Chandler succeeds Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the game’s first commissioner, who died in 1944.
• 1956 - American League umpire Frank Umont is the first to wear glasses in a regular-season game when he officiates a contest between the Detroit Tigers and Kansas City Athletics. A former NFL tackle for the New York Giants, Umont still presents an intimidating appearance to most players and fans.
• 1962 - New York Mets manager Casey Stengel is fined $500 dollars by Commissioner Ford Frick for appearing in a beer advertisement.

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