Lee MacPhail, who had a huge impact on the game of baseball as a front-office executive and president of the American League, passed away last Thursday. He was 95. MacPhail began his baseball career with the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s and then moved to the New York Yankees, joining his father, Larry MacPhail, in […]
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Yankees sued over authorship of iconic logo
The New York Yankees are being sued by a woman who claims her uncle was never compensated for his creation of the iconic top-hat/bat logo used by the team in one form or another for the past 70 years — but there’s a ton of documentation proving the legendary Lon Keller was the actual designer. […]
Crosley Field / Cincinnati Reds
When baseball fans think about Cincinnati, they think about firsts. The first professional baseball team. Charter members of the National League and the American Association. The first night game. The first pitch of the season. For six decades this city of baseball firsts played its games at the “old boomerang at Findlay and Western,” Crosley […]