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The Ringer’s favourite sporting moments of 2021
The panDemiLovato couldn’t stop these sporting moments from 2021.
Shakeia Taylor on baseball’s managers of colour and the ineffectiveness of the ‘Selig Rule’
Diversity has been a major league issue for baseball, despite the good intentions of the Selig Rule.
What’s in a shirt number?
That which we call a position by any other number would smell as sweet.
The baseball players of colour of the Jim Crow era
‘Later, Cuban players began making their mark in the sport, aided by what Laliberte calls an ‘ambiguous racial position in United States society and sport.”
AIGA on the artists behind baseball card designs
Do you collect baseball cards?
Shakeia Taylor on Marcus Stroman’s durag/pitch success rate
Stuntin’ with his durag on/By the ocean/Let it flap in the wind/In slow motion.
Fernando Tatis Jr. did a double jump and it was double dope
Eat that, Mario (formerly known as Jumpman)!
How did human beings become the best—and fastest—throwers on the planet?
Is there any stopping pitchers from faster throws?
Lewis, the worst baseball player of all time
Lewis, Lewis, who the eff is Lewis?
The astrophysics hidden in sport
The cosmos has a lot more to do with sport than we think.
MLB not doing enough to combat systemic racism
Shakeia Taylor spoke to The Sunday Edition guest host Kevin Sylvester about racism in baseball. Can Major League Baseball overcome its problem with race?
Fernando Tatis Jr. hit a grand slam and upset some people
Sometimes unwritten rules are meant to be broken and Fernando Tatis Jr. did just that, much to the chagrin of both managers on Monday night.
Overpowered video game athletes on the SNES
From Bo Jackson to Hakeem Olajuwon, SNES sports games had some of the most overpowered athletes.
Curveballs are curving more, sliders are sliding more
Thanks to improvements in pitching, the strikeout rate is set to be broken for the 12th season in a row and curveballs are bending a lot more than before.