Rally Cap Magic

I would like to hear Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski call a baseball game

An elementary school class wrote to Ozzie Albies for recommendations for fish for their new class pet

He showed up and taught them how to take care of it, set everything up and gifted them one of his own fish

🥺🥺🥺

Baseball is the best

(Andreia Albies/IG)

#MLB pitchers and catchers report to baseball's Spring Training today - a sure sign that warmer weather and longer days are on the horizon.

Orioles news: The O’s have a spiffy new training facility - MLB Good morning, Camden Chatters.

Orioles news: The O’s have a spiffy new training facility

https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/564116/

Good morning, Camden Chatters. As the Orioles make their way to Sarasota for spring training this week, they’ve…

The sun rises on my 29th season covering the ⁦‪@Dbacks‬⁩. Welcome to Spring Training.

Tweet @JeffWilsonTXR tweeted Hello, #Rangers spring training. https://t.co/9iSa6v0Nmf

@JeffWilsonTXR tweeted
Hello, #Rangers spring training. https://t.co/9iSa6v0Nmf

Good Morning San Diego: Pitchers, catchers report to Spring Training amid uncertainty about both groups - California News Beep Pitchers and catchers report to Peoria, Ariz. today to open Spring Training for the San Diego Padres. There are still questions about both groups and there

Good Morning San Diego: Pitchers, catchers report to Spring Training amid uncertainty about both groups

https://www.newsbeep.com/us-ca/171984/

Pitchers and catchers report to Peoria, Ariz. today to open Spring Training for the San Diego Padres. There…

Grainy spring training videos commence.

Slaten in the foreground, Suarez in the middle, Early in the back, throwing side sessions

Best thing about the #Superbowl? It means baseball is just around the corner.

History Awakens: February 2, 1876 and the Founding of the National League An Amazing New Discovery

On this day, 150 years ago, MLB began. ourgame.mlblogs.com/history-awak...

Charleston and Carson-Newman opened the college baseball season in a snowstorm.

What?

Happy end of Hall of Fame ballot talk season to all who celebrate.

Color headshot of Wilbur Wood, circa 1976, in a navy blue Chicago White Sox cap. (Photo: SABR-Rucker Archive)

RIP Wilbur Wood, 84, a Chicago White Sox workhorse in the 1970s and arguably the best left-handed knuckleballer in major league history. Read his SABR bio: sabr.org/bioproj/pers...

I'd rather have JT on this 3 year deal than Bo on the 7 year deal they were supposedly offering.

"A man's ability is limited only by his lack of opportunity."
~ The great Henry Aaron is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York (1982) #MLB #History #Legend #Inspiration

Amazing silent film footage of the 1917 World Series at Comiskey Park! (New York Giants vs. Chicago White Sox) Check out that great baseball sweater on John McGraw! #MLB #SFGiants #WhiteSox #Baseball #History

We are about a month from spring training report dates. Can’t wait.

#baseball

For those new to BlueSky and interested in FanGraphs writers -- or those who aren't, making this an odd choice -- I put together a FanGraphs starter pack of writers/editors who currently are staffers or contributors to the site.

go.bsky.app/Q1Dm1ED

Baseball Remembers: Mark Buehrle Why am I using a Baseball Remembers edition to write about a player who only retired ten years ago and is currently on the BBWAA ballot for the Hall of Fame?

I normally don’t use Baseball Remembers on recent players, but Hall of Fame voters seem to have forgotten how good Mark Buehrle was, especially compared to Andy Pettitte. @ibwaa.bsky.social

On this day in 1985, Lou Brock was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. “The Running Redbird” stole 938 bases in his career, including 118 in 1974—both MLB records until Rickey Henderson came along. Here’s a my painting of him that was used in Topps’ 150 Years of Baseball set in 2019. (We see Lou in the dugout staring out at the action. He wears the Cardinals’ home whites with “Cardinals” written in red script and navy piping across his chest. Two cardinals sit on a bat that’s interlaced with the “C”. He wears a red cap with a white interlocking “St L.”

On this day in 1985, Lou Brock was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. “The Running Redbird” stole 938 bases in his career, including 118 in 1974—both MLB records until Rickey Henderson came along. Here’s a my painting of him that was used in Topps’ 150 Years of Baseball set in 2019.

Edmundo Sosa, making his first professional start in the outfield, just robbed a homer from Marcell Ozuna. Holy shit.

MLK Tribute game program

#OTD 55 years ago, one of the greatest games in MLB history took place.

Few ppl know about it; no footage exists.

In Nov. 1968, SCLC sports director Joseph Peters wrote to the MLB commissioner, wanting to stage an exhibition game to honor the late Dr. Martin Luther King

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So good to have baseball to think about again.