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The NYT visits the original Mudville, just down the road from us. (Via Irish Eagle, who also notes the benefit baseball has brought village children in Afghanistan; the birthday of Rusty Staub, and a magnificent bit of vintage opprobrium concerning John Jay.
The History News Network blog picks up on the Mudville story and other interesting topics, such as who stole the toe of Robert the Bruce.
King Kelly, the exuberant 19th-century baseball star believed by some to have inspired "Casey at the Bat," also inspired a hit song with some rather marvelous doggerel lyrics:
Slide, Kelly, Slide!
Your running's a disgrace!
Slide, Kelly, Slide!
Stay there, hold your base!
If some one doesn't steal you,
And your batting doesn't fail you,
They'll take you to Australia!
Slide, Kelly, Slide!
We don't hear nearly enough references to Botany Bay in ballpark heckling these days.
If Brooklyn has yet to forgive Walter O'Malley, this website memorializes the late Dodgers owner who moved the Bums to LA, and includes a fine selection of Willard Mullin yearbook covers.
The Nats News, newsletter of the Washington Baseball Historical Society, has run a series of caricatures of old Senators players. Artist Ronnie Joyner has also done a number of the old Philadelphia Athletics.
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