Weber and Young Arms of Crow, Scheppers and Parise Making Their Mark in...
It would be much like splitting hairs if we tried to give a definitive answer as to who among the former Independent players hopeful of becoming a first time major leaguer is having the best spring...
View ArticleLyman Bostock: What Might Have Been
What coulda been–a man taken from us WAY too soon…. It’s been 35 years since the very memorable 1975 baseball season–one that saw future Hall of Famers Jim Palmer and Tom Seaver win Cy Young Awards,...
View ArticleRemembering Gene Conley
Yes, the current NBA campaign continues to progress while baseball players now filter into spring training; this overlapping of seasons reminds us of a unique, special individual who once graced both...
View ArticleKevin Millar Is Returning to His Roots To Play a Week for the St. Paul Saints
Kevin Millar’s playing days are not over. “I am going to play a week with the St. Paul Saints,†the best player ever to start his professional career in Independent Baseball told a national...
View ArticleMoved by Jose Lima’s Death, Joe Klein Looks Back at Going To the Dominican...
Jose Lima’s sudden death was felt throughout baseball, amplified by the fact he was pitching as recently as last summer, but the depth of the loss of the fun-loving 37-year-old may not have been felt...
View ArticleFour Crucial Series May Decide Both First-Half Titles; Ducks Ponder...
Both divisions have dandy races ahead for the final two weeks of the first half in the Atlantic League although they are pretty much two-team battles. Long Island is a third team within striking...
View ArticleNorthern League Making Attendance Statement
The Northern League made a major move in 2010 when it got back to a more attractive eight-team operation, and now it is making a challenge that might not have been easy to forecast. In its 18th season,...
View ArticleCatch a Falling Star
Lastings Milledge was non-tendered by Pittsburgh yesterday. It is just another benchmark in the descent of a once promising talent that was briefly with the Washington Nationals. Jim Bowden traded Ryan...
View ArticleFun Fantasy Baseball Marriages
LPGA golfer Leslie Spalding marries former pitcher Scott McGregor, divorces, marries former Mets outfielder Mookie Wilson–divorces again–then marries former Expos outfielder Ron Calloway. Sporting...
View ArticleSon Makes Good on Father’s Pledge
I recently read a story about my grandpa, Babe Dahlgren and his father Peter that I’d never heard before. After all the years spent talking with my grandpa, all the countless months researching his...
View ArticleAnother Indy Milestone Achieved With 150th Major Leaguer
    Independent Baseball reached another impressive milestone shortly after the major league season opened.           Appearances by rookies Tom Wilhelmsen and Aaron Crow plus a...
View ArticleThe Seamheads.com Radio Hour Now Taking Your Questions
The Seamheads.com Radio Hour is now taking your questions via e-mail. Send along your questions to radiohour@seamheads.com to be featured on the next edition of the show. Feel free to send questions...
View ArticleAn Intro to Perry Hill
Web gems – they are easily one of the most exciting parts of the game. The footwork, quick hands, and the finesse it requires to be a middle infielder ‘turning two’ may be the most poetic and graceful...
View ArticleThe Hall of Famers: The 5 Levels of Greatness – Part 1
Consider the following statement: One third of the players in Baseball’s Hall of Fame do not have the credentials to be there. Or, to be more precise, 35% of the 20th century major league Hall of...
View ArticleRoy Smalley, Jr.—A Baseball Classic
This past week baseball lost Roy Smalley, Jr., another member of the World War II generation that has been rapidly slipping away in recent years. He was a player, a manager, an armed services veteran,...
View ArticleTouring the Bases with Bart Zeller
Bart Zeller is a former major leaguer, who recently coached the Joliet Slammers to their first ever Frontier League championship. Bart is a great baseball man who obviously loves managing and actually...
View ArticleRollie Hemsley: How a Hard Drinking Catcher Made Alcoholics Anonymous an...
Particularly in the earlier days of the game, baseball had a well-earned reputation for hard drinking and living players. Because the players often socially mingled with the press, and because the...
View ArticleHow Is This as Handsome Reward for 19 Indy Grads? They Are on Pace to Top $37...
Does it pay for an aspiring major leaguer who goes undrafted or needs to re-energize his career to play in an Independent league? And how! Think about earning salaries totaling more than $37 million...
View ArticleA Life Saved By a Beaning
During my travels through baseball history, I have joined many other historians in a fascination with so-called “cup of coffee” players who played just a game or two or a few in the major leagues, or...
View ArticleThe Hall Of Very Good™ Adds Two Members
On Monday, July 29, The Hall of Very Good™ opened its proverbial doors to two new members…two-time National League MVP, Atlanta Braves legend Dale Murphy and former Pittsburgh Pirates World Series hero...
View ArticleThe Ryan Braun Debacle
As a lifetime Brewer fan and—until recently—a defender of Ryan Braun’s (yes, I was taken in by the ferocity of his public statement in February of 2012 . Call me an idiot, or, in the immortal words of...
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