A Pearl of a predicament
Humor is subjective.
All the way with KKK…
Gabriel Schechter, a researcher at the Baseball Hall of Fame and author of This Bad Day in Yankees History, hosts an interesting blog which I highly recommend. Pursuant to recent entries on the KKK-Hebrew All-Star game, here’s what he had to say on the topic.
So who was the umpire, William Joseph Simmons?
Jeffrey Goldberg provides this item on the 1926 “battle” between the KKK and the Hebrews All-Stars as a follow-up to an earlier entry. Big surprise.
And in the second game of today’s twin-bill…
Via Jeffrey Godlberg’s blog on The Atlantic website, who in turn got it from anther source. Believe it or not, this actually appeared in The Washington Post in 1926. I wonder what they give away at a game like this: white sheets?


