Royals Rumblings - News for December 18, 2020
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Programming Note: This is my last real rumblings of the year. Next Friday is Christmas and the week after that is New Year’s so they’re going to be some light OT threads and I may or may not have already written them.
Both Lynn Worthy and Jeffrey Flanagan had stories about Mike Matheny’s Zoom call Thursday. MLB.com won the toss so we’ll start with their story:
The Royals are entering 2021 with a simple mindset: The rebuild is over, and they are ready to compete again for the playoffs. Royals manager Mike Matheny, now in his second year as the skipper, isn’t conceding the American League Central race. The Royals won 12 of their final 18 games in 2020 and believe they have momentum heading into ‘21.
Lester said the average monthly salary of a Black player in the early 1920s was $175 a month. Rookies earned $75 and the stars $375. They received between $1 to $1.50 a day for meal money.
Major league players received from $300 to $2,000 a month and about $15 a day for meals. That s about five times more in salary than Black players.
In 1924, the first year of the Colored World Series, the share of the winners, the Kansas City Monarchs, was $307.96, says Lester. The Hilldale Club, the team that lost, took home $193.23.
The World Series winners that same year earned $5,959.64 and the losers $3,820.29. That s almost 19 times what the Black players received.
Lesky’s Notes: Deck the halls with boughs of Holland
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The baseball news cycle this week had one piece of great news and one piece of twitch-inducing news. I’ll get to the former a little bit down the page. The latter was about the beginning of another labor fight between the players and owners regarding the length of the 2021 season. Owners believe there’s no way that 162 games can be played, and I understand why they’re saying that since it’s unlikely for stands to be allowed to be full on Opening Day at the start of April. Players say they’ve proven they can play a schedule and with a vaccine out and likely beginning to be pushed to the general public around the start of the season or even before, there’s no reason why they can’t play the full slate of games. Once again, it comes down to money. The players want their full freight and the owners don’t want to pay it if fans aren’t allowed in full to start the seaso
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MLB: On second thought, the Negro Leagues were also major leagues
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Ed MorrisseyPosted at 7:01 pm on December 16, 2020
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A long-overdue correction to a 51-year-old bad decision. In attempting to unify and regulate the baseball record book in 1969, Major League Baseball identified and consolidated records from over a half-dozen professional circuits. The effort resulted in perhaps the most robust and studied set of statistics in professional sports but left out black players from the era when MLB clubs refused to allow them to play.
Soon, those players will finally get their historical due, at least in part: