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My Baseball History @shoelesspodcast.bsky.social · 10h

Episode 0501 is live!

Make sure you're following @shoelesspodcast and quote this post with the correct answer to the following trivia question for a chance to win:

Which player is responsible for most of the video footage we have today of the Negro Leagues?

www.shoelesspodcast.com/season-five/01

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 10h

Tobey Prinz up in Rogers Park.

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 11h

“For the ages”? This ain’t in the top 10 of game-tying homers in Yankees playoff history. It’s not even as clutch as Aaron Judge’s game-tying ALCS homer … last year!

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11h

Aaron Judge hit a tying homer and drove in four runs during a clutch performance for the ages, and the New York Yankees staved off elimination by rallying from five runs down to defeat the Toronto Blue Jays 9-6 in Game 3 of their AL Division Series.

Judge rallies Yankees past Blue Jays 9-6 to save season and avert ALDS sweep

Aaron Judge hit a tying homer and drove in four runs during a clutch performance for the ages, and the New York Yankees staved off elimination by rallying from five runs down to defeat the Toronto Blue Jays 9-6 in Game 3 of their AL Division Series.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 13h

I love retrospectives like this. We are obsessed with the same imaginary problems, generation after generation

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 18h

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 13h

Finally felt like fall today in Chicago.

A scattering of sea gulls flies off into the horizon over Lake Michigan as the sun sets on the north side of Chicago. A small observation tower at the end of a pier rises over the green grass and gold flowers in the foreground.

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 14h

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 1d

NEW EXTRA POINTS:

I'm a Serious Professional Journalist, so I filed some FOIAs to learn exactly how much money Indiana Football spends on apple juice, Chick Fil A, string cheese, Uncrustables and more:

www.extrapointsmb.com/p/how-many-u...

How many Uncrustables does it take to run a Big Ten football program?

Time to empty the ol' FOIA notebook ...

www.extrapointsmb.com

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17h

This image was posted on X today by a Chicago Tribune reporter. Trump’s government has declared war on the American people — or some of them, based on race.

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Graig Kreindler @graigkreindler.bsky.social · 22h

On this day in 1856, Moses Fleetwood Walker was born in Mount Pleasant, OH. He was one of the first African Americans to play in the big leagues, but also, an inventor, entrepreneur, lecturer and newspaper publisher. Here’s a color study of him with the Syracuse Stars in 1889.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 22h

🔥 As you may have seen, in recent days, I've been going to the Broadview ICE facility near where I live. For @vanityfair.com I wrote about those protests & the hell that the Chicago area is being put through thanks to ICE/DHS. I hope you'll read this & share it. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Postcard From Chicago: There’s an ICE Facility in My Backyard

Chicago was not a war zone when Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz began. DHS and ICE have made it one.

www.vanityfair.com

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Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 23h

a sports film that acknowledges it was originally meant to be a toothless PR-friendly "doc" and actually documents the hard pivot to losing access and encountering hostility when reality took a turn would be the first good one of these

Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23h

this is actually a pretty big black mark on Hulu that they had the opportunity to chronicle an extremely newsworthy spectacle and are letting UNC back out of it because it makes them look bad

Inside Carolina @insidecarolina.bsky.social · 23h

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 23h

I suspect the writer may not realize just how many years ago 1976 was …

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SABR Elysian Fields Chapter @sabrelysian.bsky.social · 1d

The Fall issue of “Eleventh Street Eagle” has landed! Check out stories about Jen Pawol, the @somersetpatriots.bsky.social Black Yankees tribute, Bull Durham at @papermillplayhouse.bsky.social, the @dcone36.bsky.social Celebrity Golf Classic, and much more!

tinyurl.com/ESEFall25

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

Roller derby librarians feels like the most Milwaukee thing ever. Incredible www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMkWcQ3t/

Why skate around the subject? 📚 Books belong in libraries and readers have the right to decide what they want to read. Libraries protect your Right to Read this week and every other. This #BannedBook...

TikTok video by Milwaukee Public Library

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fabianardaya.bsky.social @fabianardaya.bsky.social · 1d

As the ninth inning teetered on collapse, Dave Roberts solicited ideas.

Mookie Betts, playing just his fourth postseason game at shortstop, had an idea.

On the wheel play that saved the night for the Dodgers, now up 2-0 in the NLDS: www.nytimes.com/athletic/669...

Where there's a wheel, there's a way: Dodgers' trust in Mookie Betts provides defining moment

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 1d

An oldie but goodie: sabr.org/journal/arti...

Diamond Stars: Was Rickey Henderson Born to Steal? – Society for American Baseball Research

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Tyler Maun @tylermaun.com · 1d

I know we’re past Game 2 now, but this is some of the coolest sports graphic design work I’ve ever seen. (Pay real artists to do amazing real work! Like this!)

The Detroit tigers’ Game 2 preview graphic. It features a wave in the image of a tiger collapsing on a boat in a stormy sea. It is so friggin’ cool.

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 1d

That is some incredible baseball IQ in that situation.

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JJ Cooper @jjcoop36.bsky.social · 1d

OK, I don't think I can explain the incredible ever-increasing velocity in MLB better than this.

We just finished the 4th inning of tonight's Cubs-Brewers game.

This game has had 35 100 mph pitches. That's more than were thrown in the '08, '09 or '10 postseasons.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

apnews.com/article/chic...

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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John Thorn @johnthorn.bsky.social · 1d

Did you miss tonight's talk (MLB & NYC: A Love Story) at the New York State Museum? www.youtube.com/live/hOws9GT...

MLB & NYC: A Love Story: An evening with Major League Baseball Historian, John Thorn

YouTube video by nysmuseum

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local blogger @fergoe.blacksky.app · 1d

Buddy I love postseason baseball solely because every single manager develops galaxy brain

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

You just got beat by a time traveler from the 1910s

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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 1d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

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SABR Baseball Cards @sabrbbcards.bsky.social · 1d

ATTN: Members!

Baseball Card Artists Panel on Saturday featuring Michael Lewis @mightylark.bsky.social, Eric Kittelberger, and Tim Carroll, and moderated by @salazar8017.bsky.social.

Check your emails for registration info.

Join us NEXT SATURDAY for an incredible virtual panel discussion that brings together the leading baseball card artists around!

"DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS: In Celebration of Baseball Card Art" looks at the stylings of three terrific card artists whose great work has been seen all around your social media platforms. The panel features: Tim Carroll, Eric Kittelberger and Michael Lewis, and will be hosted by Anthony Salazar.

The session is set for Saturday, October 11, 2025 at 12pm EDT / 9am PDT, and is sponsored by SABR's Baseball Card, and Baseball & the Arts Committees.

And a special shout out to baseball card artist Mike Noren and Gummy Art for designing the funktastic event card!

Members - Check your SABR email for registration information.

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