Jacob Pomrenke

Awesome! Good luck with the book. Happy to help in any way I can.

I don’t know if people quite understand just how unbelievable @justmckinney.bsky.social is at this. If biographical sleuthing was an Olympic sport, first of all, heck yeah. Second of all, Justin is winning Gold and setting unbreakable records.

Original sketch for World Baseball Classic logo by Todd Radom, 2005

Original sketch, World Baseball Classic logo, 2005. Everything starts with something, somewhere, somehow. Back then you got a sense of what the event's potential could be, but you had to squint a little bit and project forward, far into the future.

Effectively Wild Episode 2447: 1-2-3, WBC

Thanks very much to @benlindbergh.bsky.social and @megrowler.fangraphs.com for having me on Effectively Wild to preview the World Baseball Classic and talk about my book, We Sacrifice Everything to Baseball.

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Thank you!

Gonna rec some things about the Black Sox scandal.

It's a really important thing, if you care about sports. Topical, now. Given that MLB is jumping in w/ both feet.

First up, Eight Men Out gets some important details wrong, for dramatic reasons.

Steve is being treated like a domestic terrorist only for reporting on the Trump anti-immigrant “blitz” in the Chicago area.

He was detained but NOT charged - yet punished.

This is purely to deter those who question power or even observe what’s being done by DHS.

Again - #JournalismIsNotACrime

In 1953, Toni Stone became the first woman to play professional baseball in a major men's league, showing immense courage in the face of overt racism and sexism.

More Women's History Month spotlights: https://info.sports-reference.com/whm-spotlights

Oh, this would be wonderful to have again. I spent many years adding my games into the wonderful Sports Passport app. But then it was acquired by Momento (www.acmomento.com) and lost all of their stat-keeping export functions.

A photo of the Chicago skyline viewed from the north across a stretch of open blue water. The skyline is silhouetted against a light pastel sunrise sky

A wintry photo of the Chicago River surrounded by the dense downtown cityscape. There's an elevated train crossing a bridge in the foreground

A photo looking along elevated train tracks towards the distant Sears Tower under a bright blue sky

A photo of the Chicago skyline from the south taken from a park full of yellow winter grasses

Happy birthday Chicago!

"Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning."

Will Art Institute expansion leave Louis Sullivan’s Chicago Stock Exchange room in the cold? No decision has been made, but the museum says "the east side of the building — where the Trading Room is located — represents the area where gallery space could increase the most."

My architecture column today. Art Institute tells the Sun-Times no decision has been made on the old CSE trading room, but adds "the east side of the building — where the Trading Room is located — represents the area where gallery space could increase the most."

Wheelchair curling drama: 2 rocks stolen from Paralympic venue ahead of competition | CBC Curling drama has arrived at the Paralympics even before the first competition rock has been thrown. Two curling stones have been stolen from the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium.

JUST IN

Two curling 🥌 stones have been stolen from the Cortina curling venue ahead of Paralympic competition.

Authorities are investigating. Competition will not be affected. Here’s what we know at this point: www.cbc.ca/sports/paral...

Devon Market is a treasure trove, and I love it.

Inside a managing master class: Dave Roberts breaks down a World Series Game 7 for the ages “The pressure points in that World Series,” Roberts said. “There were so many different things. It's unbelievable when you unpack it.”

Inside a managing master class: Dave Roberts breaks down a Game 7 for the ages

www.nytimes.com/athletic/708...

The Columnist I perceive myself as being someone who takes the agency of individual people very seriously, and think that It’s important to remind ourselves, continuously, that our choices actually do matt…

i've always wondered what the job of newspaper columnist is like, so, for this month's WORK IS FOUR LETTERS, i decided to go ask a newspaper columnist about it. @jamellebouie.net was kind enough to make time to talk to me about his work, and i'm really pleased to share it with you.

Teixeira will be the 6th former MLB player to serve in Congress, after:

1. John Tener
2. Fred Brown
3. Pi Schwert
4. Vinegar Bend Mizell
5. Jim Bunning

I had not heard this story about the 1952 award given to an owner by his players for firing Rogers Hornsby from the St. Louis Browns, basically bc the Texan was despised by everyone who knew him, but it's a good'un. sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

Indeed. But a bad omen nevertheless.

Marimar Martinez says says it's "even worse" if Noem truly does not know about her shooting
"She's the leader of DHS and one of her agents attempted to kill me, a U.S. citizen on the streets of Chicago. It was reported in every national news outlet for months. Does she not read the newspaper?"

Guess I can tune out early for a second straight Braves season.

Historical marker embedded in sidewalk pavement. "Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project. David Marcus. 1869-1919. I am a walking testimony. Firebird Community Arts, Organic Oneness, City of Chicago Public Art Collection 2025). Against a red background, artistic imagery suggests a lake and sunshine, a mother and child, and a shoemaker and pair of shoes.

"I am a walking testimony"

New historical marker for my great-great-uncle, a shoemaker, one of 38 people killed in the Chicago Race Riot of 1919.

37th and Rhodes, Chicago (where he lived, worked and died)

Front door entryway of the George Maher-designed Colvin House on Sheridan Road, framed by a decorative arch, yellow brick, and two columns over a second-floor window. In the foreground is a planter with mini-peppers in various shades of ripeness.

Happy birthday!

You got this!

So sorry for your loss. These are always such hard days. But what a wonderful life you gave her, and she gave to you all.

Event details

Head to @yogiberramuseum.bsky.social on 3/14 for “Game Changers: Celebrating Women in Baseball.”

Hear from @umpireplb.bsky.social, Alexia Jorge & @kavithad.bsky.social. Autograph signing with Alexia follows the panel.

Museum admission req’d. Reservations for the panel discussion encouraged.

Watching back the last few innings of Game 7 of the WS this morning, for the first time since I saw it live, and .. holy hell, I feel like I could run through a brick wall. This was the best baseball could be.

John Shuster wins the USA National Championship! In the final championship for Chris Plys and Colin Hufman, the sleeveless boys of Team Shuster go out on top. They'll be headed to Ogden, Utah for their swan song as Team USA.

Stopera's biggest miss of the game is coming up about 8" short of a perfect freeze. Shuster makes a perfect tap and now leads by 1 without hammer going into the final end.

Will Shuster hold on to allow Plys and Hufman to go out on top? Or will Team Stopera play spoiler? Here we go.

Screenshot of John Shuster vs. Andrew Stopera in the men's final of the USA Curling National Championships. Shuster's teammates, Chris Plys, Colin Hufman, and Matt Hamilton are all in sleeveless shirts on the ice and sporting many tattoos.

A late flight home means I have plenty of time to watch the gun show at the USA Curling National Championships. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ2w...

Thanks to our members for their 2026 SABR Jefferson Burdick Award nominations. Reflecting the breadth of the award, this year's nominees include card bloggers, researchers, creators, community organizers, industry vets, and even a website. Stay tuned as we prepare to select and announce a winner.