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Negro Leagues

Ty Cobb hit .367, but Josh Gibson hit .372

John Fea   |  May 29, 2024

Here is the Associated Press: Josh Gibson became Major League Baseball’s career leader with a .372 batting average, surpassing Ty Cobb’s .367, when Negro Leagues records for more than 2,300 players were incorporated Tuesday after a three-year research project. Gibson’s […]

Joe Biden told Pope Francis a story about Satchel Paige

John Fea   |  November 5, 2021

Check out Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández‘s great piece at Commonweal on the importance of story-telling. Here is a taste: Lost in threads of contested interpretations on social media was the fact that Biden was speaking to Pope Francis in one of […]