Eric on The Road

Journeys into the offbeat, off the beaten path, overlooked and forgotten - by Eric Model

Sunday, March 26, 2006

Heard on the Radio: The Fans They Left Behind

(More on a topic discussed on the radio)

Spring has come. The buds are about to burst. Birds migrate north. A new baseball season starts.

Nature does not change (OK, there is global warming). But "time-enduring" baseball today is quite different than baseball as I knew it growing up. Millionaire ball-players, billionaire owners, luxury boxes, steroids and more make you want to go back to what is simplistically and euphamistically described as "a more innocent time".

But come to think of it, in our new great global village of interactivity you can go back.

These days get my fix of baseball purity by starting at websites on about clubs that exist no more.

Recently The New York Times did a fine piece about the Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society. More can be found at the April edition of The Letter From The Road newsletter at our website www.hiddenamerica.com or at http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20E1EF638550C718DDDAA0894DE404482.


Some other interseting resources for teams, once important, now departed include:

Botson Braves: www.bostonbraves.com

Milwaukee Braves: www.wisconsinhistory.org/museum/exhibits/braves.asp

Brooklyn Dodgers: www.ebbets-field.com

St. Louis Browns: www.thestlbrowns.com/

New York Giants: www.baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?s=dc45564990a2af756694cf726cde829d&t=17306

Washington Senators: http://washingtonsenators.org/

Seattle Pilots: www.seattlepilots.com/

Kansas City Athletics: www.sportkc.org/visit_kc/history.htm

Montreal Expos : "Baseball Comes to Canada" - CBC Website http://archives.cbc.ca/300c.asp?IDCat=41&IDDos=611&IDLan=1&IDMenu=41

Also for the Expos and baseball in Montreal - www.encorebaseballmontreal.com

We hope to do more on this topic in the future. In the meantime, if you have anything you'd like to share with us on the topic, please do so. we'd love to hear more.

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