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So it started out like this. I got a phone call from my husband as I was driving home from work that day. He said, “I am NOT kidding and I never kid with you about something like this…(pause). Ichiro just got traded to the Yankees…(pause). Just come home.” [read more...]

Josh Gibson is said to be one of the greatest baseball players ever. He was known as the “Black Babe Ruth,” and played in the Negro Leagues. His impressive statistics’ his reputation, and his nickname all stand testament to his incredible skill. Some experts at the time even considered him to be better than Babe Ruth. [read more...]

Just Like Josh Gibson, is a wonderful little book by Angela Johnson, and is perfect for young girls aspiring to become baseball players, or just about any other career traditionally thought of as “man’s work.” In this book, a little girl tells the story of her grandmother’s love for baseball as a child growing up in the 1940s. [read more...]

John “Buck” O’Neil was a player and a coach that changed baseball forever. [read more...]

The Madison Mallards will not play teams from the Northwoods League’s Northern Division this year. The Northwoods League recently decided to split into two eight-team divisions and play interdivisional games during the regular season. The decision was made in order to reduce costs and the hassle of long bus rides for its players and teams. Division winners will meet at season’s end in a league championship series. [read more...]

In professional sports it is large vs. small market. College has major vs. mid-major. The college gap is beginning to narrow. [read more...]

In the era when dance marathons and bicycle races were all the rage, there came another historic first: the roller derby. Leo A. Seltzer, a sports promoter, started the sport in the fall of 1935 by combining elements of dance marathons and bike races. [read more...]

New research has found that going up for the rebound is the easiest way to get hurt in a basketball game. Missteps while going for rebounds make up one-fourth of all basketball-related injuries. [read more...]