Last Journal

Countless fans have wondered what baseball could be like today if the owners and players could have gotten along in the 1994 season. Before the 1994 strike, the Montreal Expos had the best record in the league, 74-40. They had superstars such as Moises Alou, Larry Walker, Cliff Floyd, Pedro Martinez, and John Wetteland. The players strike in August brought an end to this potential World Series team. The owner of the Expos lost so much money during the strike, he was...

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This was written one day after Stan died.

Stan Musial Journal

I wish I could write this journal saying that I had a chance to meet Stan Musial. I hadn’t. I wish I could write this journal saying that I had seen Stan Musial with my own eyes. I hadn’t. Like so many others, I had only seen Stan Musial through the TV screen. I wish I could have grown up in an era where Stan Musial was the number one focus of St. Louis. Of course he has always been a main focus of St....

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Journal 7

It is very sad to think that black children are not interested in baseball for the most part. I have really wondered why this is and I’ve tried to search for where black kids lost their interest in baseball, but I have never found the exact spot. I know it had to have started around the mid to late 70s when Julius Erving came into the NBA and the likes of Hank Aaron and Willie Mays retired from baseball.

I started to notice the lack of black players in...

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Journal 5

I think it should be noted that many, if not all the items in the Barry Halper Collection are disputed upon as to whether or not they are authentic or fake. I’m not going to go into details because I’d rather not research this topic too deeply just for a journal entry.

Everybody has been told not to believe something that sounds too good to be true. This saying most certainly applies to many of the items in the Halper Collection. Items in the collection...

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Journal 4

In Chapter Twenty, the author discusses autobiographies written by baseball players. He shows the reader that most of these autobiographies are arranged in the sameway, first they describe the player’s career, then the player’s moment of religious clarity, and finally how the player related their new found beliefs with their careers.

At first, I was hoping that the author would include, Veeck-As in Wreck in his small list of autobiographies, but he didn’t....

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