tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12133335.post6520883519871406313..comments2024-02-13T06:56:14.486-05:00Comments on Walk Like a Sabermetrician: 1877 NLphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18057215403741682609noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12133335.post-5670874920134267772008-02-18T12:22:00.000-05:002008-02-18T12:22:00.000-05:00I have tried to make it clear in writing this seri...I have tried to make it clear in writing this series that I am by no means a historian--the sketches of each season I present are threadbare and based on a cursory examination of a couple secondary sources (good secondary sources like Seymour, Voigt, and Nemec mind you, but secondary sources none the less). <BR/><BR/>To drive this home, here is an interesting post from the This Game of Games blog (devoted to 19th century St. Louis base ball) on the 1877 Brown Stockings and accusations of gambling. And could this be at least a partial explanation of why Joe Battin fell off the cliff?<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://thisgameofgames.blogspot.com/2008/02/mike-mcgeary.html" REL="nofollow">This Game of Games</A>phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18057215403741682609noreply@blogger.com