Minnpress.com and Saints

Most of what appears here is about political and social matters and the things which affect them, such as the media which tell us about these things.

I decided to check up on the newest professional internet news concept [minnpost.com which has received a fair amount of hype in non-print media] which debuted this week.

I will probably say more about minnpress.com later. There is more I want to check out. But I found an article about the 1920’s New York Yankees, one of the most famous dynasties in the sport’s history.

While I have noted, although not here, that perhaps the Red Sox are becoming a new dynasty [although they have a long way to go before reaching that level] that they have not won a World Series without having a former Saint on the team [Millar in ’04, Drew in ‘07], Pat Borzoi has written about those Yankees and notes the presence of a former Saint [Mark Koenig] on those teams, and of his role in winning the 1924 Junior World Series for the Saints.

It is an interesting article which reminds us of independent minor league teams, of the Junior World Series, of Lexington Park – of a different era.

The era was not perfect and I wouldn’t want to minimize the problems. Most of them were reflections of the society from which that era of baseball derived. Labor relations were poor, health and training attitudes of both management and players left a lot to be desired in both majors and minors, and playing was limited to white men.

But the article is interesting and worthy of reading. And you can follow links off of it to learn more about minnpost.com.