Don Zminda

Holy Cow! Phil Rosenthal's Chicago Tribune column celebrating Harry's Chicago debut 50 years ago references my 2019 Caray bio, "The Legendary Harry Caray: Baseball's Greatest Salesman" (the whole column is stuff from the book). digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/infinity/artic…

Talking about my latest, "Justice Batted Last: Ernie Banks, Minnie Miñoso, and the Unheralded Players who Integrated Chicago’s Major League Teams;" it's coming next spring. EWPK Ep. 12: Kenny & Paul chat with baseball historian Don Zminda youtube.com/live/_2EGroEuk… via @YouTube

@p_emory Congratulations! I know how much work is involved in finishing the draft of a book

These 377 pages and 123K words represent nearly a decade of thinking, researching, and writing about the history of sports and Christianity in modern America. There will be additional edits before it's out. But today, for the first time, this manuscript truly feels complete.

Benetti is the best. ⁦@sabr⁩

@MarkArmour04 If you see her, stay out of the pool

There is nothing like a great game with great company. A fun night with Mark Armour at the big A. Also, this Ohtani guy is pretty good!

@MarkArmour04 I pulled a few strings.

@LukeEpplin Love this movie

Rewatched "Mulholland Drive" for the first time in a decade. Still a masterpiece, still the best American film of this century so far.

@HeavyJ28 @SABRLandmarks @whitesox @TheBigHurt_35 We all have our personal preferences when it comes to favorite Sox statues....

Happy 55th birthday Frank Thomas! Statues don’t get any better than this one of Big Frank at the Cell. 👇

@TimJenkins1962 Or, "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bucs"

@buckweaver @DJFletchMD @ToddRadom Can't wait to dig into it!

On the Fox broadcast yesterday, Adam Wainwright opined that the games were going too fast for the fans to enjoy their food, etc., and suggested adding 5 sec to the pitch count clock. Figuring 250 pitches for an avg gm, that adds 21 min. Welcome back 3 hr games!

@SGietschier Congratulations Steve... you're having a much better year (so far) than the Cardinals!

White Sox involved in a crucial series with the Kansas City Royals, each team hoping to avoid relegation. Sorry, wrong sport, but it would definitely liven things up.

Well this is an interesting read. I have a lot of thoughts, but there's one thing I want to push back especially on... (Also thank you to @stephenjnesbitt for such a deeply reported piece.) theathletic.com/4503613/2023/0…

The White Sox broadcasters have been playing highlights from Sunday's 9th inning comeback vs. TB like the Sox were the 1951 Giants, and Andrew Vaughn was Bobby Thomson. Now that they finally lost another game (they're 10-22), can we stop this, please?

Things are starting to turn around for the White Sox: Southpaw just won the latest Great Mascot Race on video during the 7th inning stretch of the StL-SF broadcast. I could feel the excitement in Bob Costas' voice.

Hoping that maybe the Bears could draft the "best available baseball player" and lend him to the White Sox....

Great news! My abstract "8 Strong Men: The Chicago Cubs' First Move Toward Integration (1949)" has been accepted as an ORAL presentation at SABR 51 in Chicago. This story will be a chapter in my forthcoming book about the Black players who integrated the Cubs and White Sox.

It's not fair to expect the White Sox to compete with big-market, high-spending teams like the Tampa Bay Rays. When do we play Oakland?

The A's-Giants Bay Area dynamic always struck me as being like WSox-Cubs in Chi... an obviously smaller fan base, but a very passionate one, and a franchise that can succeed w/ proper management. As for bending over to a billionaire to keep them, I would say, "Take a hike, son."