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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 ($$$)
- Hickey: Korea Gets Same Treatment From ESPN that A’s, Twins, Rays, Indians & Nationals Know All Too Well
MLB News:
Baseball Interest Stories:
- Adams: Which Former MLB Players Are Getting Ready To Play In The KBO?
- MLBTR Poll: Red Sox Punishment
- Jaffe: The Red Sox Got Slapped on the Wrist for Their Illegal Sign-Stealing
- Clemens: The Best Bunts, and Bunters, of 2019
- Byrne: A Costly Draft Decision
- Byrne: Replacing J.T. Realmuto
- Petriello and Leitch: Ranking every ROY from 2000s: Who’s on top?
- Lupica: A chat with Hank Aaron, on his love for the game
- Justice: These 9 trades won World Series last decade
- Leitch: A lot better than you remember: Moises Alou
- Clair: Transport to the ‘90s with this wild Rays promo
- MLB Quiz of the Day: Top MLB Draft prospects
- Chesterton: The story behind every team’s mascot
- Stark’s Strange But True Files: The night the impossible happened, Bartolo edition ($$$)
- Calcaterra: Today in Baseball History: Casey Stengel fined for appearing in a beer ad
- 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.
Best of Twitter:
Two sides making progress?
You don’t see this every day — MLB and MiLB issuing a joint statement about their labor talks.
— Michael Silverman (@MikeSilvermanBB) April 23, 2020
Optimistic, too: pic.twitter.com/aVAO4rwtq6
I, for one, blame coronavirus.
Cracking 85 Topps rack packs...why are all my Puckett's off center!!!! pic.twitter.com/RnV9EA7Glp
— Pat Neshek (@PatNeshek) April 23, 2020
Cute, or nightmare fuel?
Uni-Lions' new mascot Fishhead Kun is making his #CPBL debut tonight. pic.twitter.com/3rCpp8pJhb
— CPBL STATS (@GOCPBL) April 24, 2020
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