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August 2019
Celebrating League Park
Join us for events commemorating the 40th anniversary of the dedication of the League Park historical marker. Watch for details.
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Author Ruth Hanford Morhard: Mrs. Morhard and the Boys
As the Great Depression brought America to the brink of disaster, a devoted single mother in Cleveland, Ohio, wrestled triumph out of adversity by creating a community activity that would inspire the nation. Josephine Morhard never waited for something to happen. At twelve years old, fiercely independent Josephine left her family’s Pennsylvania farm to start a new life. Coming of age during one of the most devastating times in America, and weathering two bad marriages, Josephine put her personal problems…
Find out more »Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know About Baseball
Scouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to rely on experience and intuition, scoring on performance metrics and statistics. In his new book Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about Baseball, Christopher Phillips rejects these simplistic divisions. He shows how both scouts and scorers rely on numbers, bureaucracy, trust, and human labor in order to make sound judgments about the value of baseball players. A unique consideration of the role…
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