The Pecan Park Eagle

Stan Musial, Babe Ruth, and Satchel Paige are three of the few greats that I would have paid $60.00 to see play in an otherwise W/L meaningless spring training game. (photo: Musial & me, St. Louis, 1996)

John Thorn: Baseball’s 100 Most Important People

The Pecan Park Eagle simply wants to alert of all of you to the refreshing treatment that great historian John Thorn pays to this subject on his current website. The way Thorn handles the matter needs no amplification from anyone, although, as he owns from the start, the establishment of a list n any order of the 100 most important people in baseball history is in itself an invitation to much subjective disagreement and arbitrary exclusion of 18,000 or so other legitimately deserving candidates.

Who would you pick as the most important person in baseball history? Would it be Babe Ruth? Jackie Robinson? Or someone else?

Would your list really include Abner Doubleday, a man whose connection to early kid baseball was now dubious, at best?

Please check it out and leave your comments in the space below this connecting article:

http://ourgame.mlblogs.com/2014/11/10/baseballs-100-most-important-people/

And Thank you, Bob Dorrill, for tipping me off to the presence of this new material. It is something we all should review in relation to the variability of standards applied, the credibility problems encountered with rank ordering anything to this extent on a list of 100 people,  and the immeasurably difficulties any decision-maker shall encounter in traveling too far down this list.

Thank you, Bob Dorrill, for pointing me to the current “Our Game” reflections of the estimable John Thorn.

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Astros Are Raising the Cost of  Florida Spring Training Game Tickets from $20.00 to $60.00 each:

Play Ball! In our minds. It’s that time of year that we all sit staring out the window, waiting for spring, except for those of you going to see the Astros in spring training in Florida prior to the 2015 season, we will not see any big league baseball until the regular season starts next April. Also, another little bird told me today that the Astros are raising their ticket prices for spring games in Florida from $20.00 to $60.00 a ticket. So, if you plan to go down there, you had better take a bigger wallet, or else, find something else to do. We hear that ocean cruises are nice in late winter and early spring.