Another Mystery Solved, Plus More ’83 All-Star Goodness

By Paul Lukas, on July 16th, 2020%

Well, that didn’t take long. Yesterday afternoon, a few hours after I posted yesterday’s blog entry about the White Sox No. 13 Mystery Man with the “Gallagher” NOB at the 1983 MLB All-Star Game, the Twitter account @QuirkyResearch lived up to its name by cracking the case.

@QuirkyResearch (which is tied to a website . . . → Read More: Another Mystery Solved, Plus More 1983 All-Star Goodness

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Hooked Up

By Paul Lukas, on January 15th, 2013%

Reader Bruce Menard recently clued me in regarding a chapter from fairly recent MLB history that I hadn’t been aware of. It involves a guy named Jay Mazzone, who worked as a batboy for the Orioles in the late 1960s. The unusual thing about Mazzone is that he’d lost his hands when he was two . . . → Read More: Hooked Up

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Trainspotting

By Paul Lukas, on August 31st, 2012%

Yesterday I took the subway out to to the U.S. Open in Queens, where I met up with ESPN.com’s tennis editor, Matt Wilansky, who’s soon going to be taking over the Playbook section (read: He’s my new boss). Quite a few people on the train were wearing U.S. Open shirts, U.S. Open caps, and . . . → Read More: Trainspotting

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