If you like baseball history, podcasts and podcasts about baseball history, then you're in luck. My friend Jeff hosts Rounders: A History of Baseball in America, and he invited me to join him on his most recent episode. We talked about some of my favorite "cup of coffee" players -- ballplayers whose MLB career amounted … Continue reading RIP Baseball appears on Rounders podcast
First and foremost, thank you for visiting RIP Baseball. I've been visiting cemeteries for baseball-related gravesites for about four years, and been writing about them and recently deceased ballplayers on this blog for a year and a half now. In the beginning I had no idea if there was any kind of an audience for … Continue reading The awkward but necessary financial support post
Minneapolis Star-Tribune history columnist Curt Brown has written a really nice article about the life of Elmer Foster, the 19th-Century baseball player/actor/hell-raiser. He references this blog and includes a quote from me in his story, which marks the first time I've ever been mentioned in a newspaper since the time I got a scholarship in … Continue reading RIP Baseball mentioned in Star-Tribune
