Lee Lowenfish

Entry of May 21st
AN UNNOTICED GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY

50 years ago today, on May 21, 1959 Major League Baseball owners held a rare spring meeting in the privacy of Pittsburgh Pirates owner John Galbreath’s Darby Dan racehorse farm outside of Columbus, Ohio. Baseball usually resisted change – two major leagues with eight teams each had ruled the  Read More 

Entry of May 19th
On The Errors of Enthusiasm

One of Branch Rickey’s favorite quotations was from Anatole France: “I much prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.” One of the early definitions of the word enthusiasm in the ancient Greek was “extravagant religious zealotry” and  Read More