I have received several inquiries on how one can "follow" the blog or post comments. It isn't necessary to sign up for anything to read the blog, just take note of the address - brokenbatblog.blogspot.com - and periodically visit the site. I'll try to post something at least once a week. As far as commenting goes, you can only do that if you have a google (gmail) account. And yes, I will talk about present day baseball, not just history.

since this is a baseball blog, I now have to post something like this:

On this day in 1951, Roy Campanella won his first of three NL MVP awards, batting .325 with 33 home runs and 108 RBI's. Of course, Giants fans are forgiven if their associations with that year have more to do with a couple other things...