I have been honored by an invitation to appear in Cincinnati this Friday afternoon June 19 on a Civil Rights Roundtable chaired by Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree, Jr. (President Obama’s law school mentor). The opening event of Major League Baseball’s first Civil Rights Weekend, our panel begins at 4 PM and will take place at Read More
THOUGHTS ON THE JUNE 15TH TRADING DEADLINE
June 16, 2009
June 15th used to be the big trading deadline in baseball and as usual Branch Rickey was in the middle of a big innovation. In 1922 Rickey’s Cardinals and the St. Louis Browns who shared the home field of Sportsman’s Park were in first place near the end of July for the first Read More