Monthly Archives: February 2008

Waterloo May Become Baseball’s First Wild-Card Playoff Qualifier (1978)

Organized Baseball’s first wild-card playoffs could become a reality early in September, provided one of the Midwest League’s two First-half divisional champions–Appleton or Quad Cities–finishes on top again in the final second-half standings.

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The Story of Minor League Baseball, by the National Association: a short review

Truly a wonderful book; obviously the key source for many books which were subsequently published. History at both high levels and at fairly detailed level.

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