…as you prepare to celebrate the 1901 founding of baseball’s American League and all that that entails, but we would be remiss if we did not alert you that our pal Burr Deming has posted his best-of-the-web links complete with wry commentary at the essential blog Fair and Unbalanced.
We will of course keep this post on top and fresher posts —if any!— will be below.
Mock Paper Scissors 
Baseball sure was different back in the day! Wax On, Wax Off used to only apply to the balls!
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That is Hughie Jennings, who was quite the cut-up and a pretty good manager. Pitchers found his antics somewhat distracting, to put it mildly. He passed away from meningitis, at the ripe old age of 58.
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Fascinating guy…thanks for this. It’s kind of astonishing he lived as long as he did https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughie_Jennings
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Most welcome!
Check out Rabbit Maranville. Best defensive shortstop of his era and the guy was hilarious. There are hundreds of Maranville stories, all very funny.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_Maranville
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