adventures in baseball archeology: the negro leagues, latin american baseball, j-ball, the minors, the 19th century, and other hidden, overlooked, or unknown corners of baseball history...with occasional forays into other sports
Check out Brent Moulton’s MLEs for Pete Hill at the Hall of Merit; also scroll down for the ensuing discussion, with an interesting contribution from David Lawrence re: Rube Foster’s managerial style, and chime-ins from other folks.
Brent Moulton has taken a stab at MLEs (major league equivalencies) for John Henry Lloyd. His method, adapted from Chris Cobb, gives Lloyd a career OPS+ of 116, which translates into 3,679 hits over a 24-year career (1907-1930).
Pete Hill Baseball Card Set My collaboration with the great baseball artist Gary Cieradkowski (Infinite Baseball Cards) on a card set depicting the life and career of Negro league great Pete Hill.
foster and méndez, 1924 world series In Game 10 of the 1924 World Series, José Méndez, sick with a viral infection, gutted out a 3-hit shutout to clinch the series for KC. Did Rube Foster really call every pitch for him?
rescued from the dustbin of history A cautionary tale about microfilm: two Cuban Stars box scores preserved only in bound volumes of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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