Very interesting submission to the site this week as the baseball postseason is set to begin. This is an essay entitled “American Baseball Imperialism” by historian Christopher Kelly. Enjoy:

Armed American forces have fought in eighty-five out of the 194 countries in the world (excluding the USA itself) or 44 percent of the total.  Over the course of this amazing history, filled as it is with heroic liberations and a few tragic blunders, we Americans have had one undeniable achievement – we have exported the game of baseball around much of the world.

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2015 Baseball Hall of Fame Inductee Pedro Martinez was on teleconference, along with fellow TBS analysts Ron Darling and Cal Ripken Jr., to preview the Sunday MLB on TBS package.

Here is Martinez on his Hall of Fame induction:

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There’s a whole lot to find wrong with a lot of what ESPN Baseball Analyst Curt Schilling has to say. His social and political views are viewed as quite extreme by many. Many of his statements are quite disagreeable. The statements below, however, are not.

Much like the way Schilling handled those disgusting and horrible Twitter trolls who deplorably harassed both him and his daughter in March, Schilling really got this one right. Schilling totally nailed it here.

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The Boston Red Sox just gave HUGE money to their #3 starter- Rick Porcello. The hurler and club agreed to a four year, $82 million extension. That’s mad cheddah! So the Sox make this move, which is more money than what they offered Jon Lester, who leaves to become the #1 Opening Day starter with the Chicago Cubs.

Where’s the logic here?

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