Jay Dunn

3 days ago | trentonian.com | Jay Dunn

Frank Lane was never known to be bashful. In 1950 he was the general manager of the Chicago White Sox when he decided to present a geography lesson to the eight men who owned teams in the American League. He pointed that, according to the United States census, Los Angeles had become the fourth-largest city in America and San Francisco was 11th. There were commercial airlines capable of flying passengers to those cities from anywhere in the United States, and they could do it in a single day.

1 week ago | trentonian.com | Jay Dunn

When the Texas Rangers signed Seong-Jun Kim last week, they said they were very impressed with him both as a baseball prospect and as a person. One journalist who reported on the signing went beyond that. He said he was undecided about whether to call Kim “the next Babe Ruth” or merely “the Korean Shohei Ohtani.”Whoa!We’re talking about an 18-year-old youth who won’t even graduate from high school until early next year. Perhaps it’s a bit premature to be comparing him to Hall of Famers.

2 weeks ago | trentonian.com | Jay Dunn

Hall of Fame pitcher Robin Roberts once remarked that he “hated” three teams:Michigan, Notre Dame and the Russians. Roberts spent the majority of his major league career with the Phillies and during most of those years the Phillies were annually bedeviled by the Dodgers. But Roberts did not include the Dodgers on his hate list. Roberts pitched for the Phillies in 1950, when the team reached the World Series, only to be swept by the Yankees.

3 weeks ago | trentonian.com | Jay Dunn

Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred declared on Tuesday that dead people aren’t a threat to baseball. He said lifetime sanctions no longer apply to those aren’t living. With one stroke of the pen he lifted the lifetime bans of 17 dead men. He did it primarily for the benefit of one of them. He did it because he is searching for a way to put Pete Rose into the Hall of Fame.

3 weeks ago | mcall.com | Jay Dunn

Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred declared on Tuesday that dead people aren’t a threat to baseball. He said lifetime sanctions no longer apply to those who aren’t living. With one stroke of the pen he lifted the lifetime bans of 17 dead men. He did it primarily for the benefit of one of them. He did it because he is searching for a way to put Pete Rose into the Hall of Fame.