Dugout Dirt is a column with regular musings about baseball, baseball books, and baseball movies.
Dugout Dirt is a column with regular musings about baseball, baseball books, and baseball movies.
Danielle SolzmanBestselling author Jonathan Eig revisited Jackie Robinson’s pivotal first season in his 2007 biography, Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season. In shattering the color barrier, Robinson ended…
Danielle SolzmanIn Who Killed the Montreal Expos?, Jean-François Poisson investigates baseball’s greatest mystery: who—or what—brought down Montreal’s beloved team? The shocking disintegration still reverberates to this day. “Why is that team…
Danielle SolzmanTNT Sports will be the exclusive home of the 2025 National League Division Series presented by Booking.com and the National League Championship Series presented by loanDepot, simulcast on TBS, truTV…
Danielle SolzmanClemente is the definitive documentary on the life, career, and enduring legacy of the late Pittsburgh Pirates legend Roberto Clemente. The film’s release came days before Major League Baseball celebrated…
Danielle SolzmanIn honor of Yogi Berra‘s 100th birthday, his National Baseball Hall of Fame plaque will visit the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center. Yogi Berra became a legend thanks to…
Danielle SolzmanIt’s been nearly two years since traveling to Coors Field and taking in a non-gameday ballpark tour at the home of the Colorado Rockies in October 2023. When I first…
Danielle SolzmanRenowned sports artist James Fiorentino reflects on his career, from painting baseball legends to becoming the youngest artist featured in Cooperstown. The conversation took place on Sunday morning at the…
Danielle SolzmanThe Memory Lane Inc. booth at The National Sports Collectors Convention allowed fans to hold a bat that was once used by the Iron Horse himself, Lou Gehrig. The last…
Danielle SolzmanWhen you can’t get to Cooperstown, it means meeting National Baseball Hall of Fame members at The National Sports Collectors Convention. This year’s National is the first of three consecutive…
Danielle SolzmanThe San Francisco Giants and New York Mets completed a trade today with three players joining the Giants in exchange for RHP Tyler Rogers. The Giants received RHP José Buttó (BOO-toh),…
