The New Baseball Bible: Lists, Legends, Notes & Nuggets from the National Pastime
By: Dan Schlossberg A group of Hall of Fame baseball players crossed the Atlantic on the Lusitania two years before it was torpedoed. Major-league teams held “spring training” in northern locales for three years in the ’40s because of wartime travel restrictions. The Dodgers acquired their nickname because citizens of Brooklyn had to cross a […]
