Fortunately, Yankee fans’ long experience with post-season baseball will allow them to shrug off this game with graceful, measured calmness.

Looking for this Feb 1949 issue of Sports Illustrated, unrelated to classic SI that launched in 1954. There is an article on Satchel Paige that I would like to read, and I would be grateful for a scan of it. I know that is asking a lot--I have tried the Hall of Fame and eBay. Much thanks.

The AL West has won the last two non-Dodger championships. Their collective 2026 performance is not an imbalance problem that needs to be corrected, but an inevitable consequence of this playoff format and some bad baseball decisions.

The playoff bubble does not exist.

The Peggy Guggenheim museum in Venice has a “conservation lab.” But trying doing this to a 1979 Topps Bake McBride and everyone has a friggin’ COW. @sabrbbcards.bsky.social

Excellent. I am in Italy—home Saturday—and we can catch up when I return. Thanks!

Have you, or do you plan to, done similar work for the 1949/1950 NAL (recognized by SABR as major leagues)? I am part of a group starting a related research project.

Italy!

This is what the people who run American sports work to prevent.

I have always believed that this should have been framed such that the *men* were swapped since everyone and everything else remained in place.