Not a good weekend for the Sox in Toronto so far. Let's hope Beckett can stop the bleeding.

My fellow Vintage Base Ball Federation board member, John Thorn, has started up a new blog called Dear Abner. If Mr. Thorn's name isn't ringing a bell, he's a noted baseball historian who appeared in Ken Burns Baseball series many years ago.

By the way, in case you didn't pick up on it, the picture above is of Abner Doubleday. While Doubleday didn't really invent baseball, he was a Civil War general.

It's good reading. Click the link and take a look.