The First Female MLB Pitcher Has Arrived

OK, she only pitched batting practice.
Justine Siegal, who was already the first woman to coach a professional baseball team (The Brockton (MA) Rox, recently in the news for giving Bill Bucker a job managing, pitched batting practice yesterday for the Indians’ camp.  She confessed to being nervous, called herself an old lady…and still made manager [...]

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Stuff We Didn’t Used to Get: The Trade Deadline

Every week, UPH will look at one confusing thing in sports, and figure it out.  It will then become Stuff We Didn’t Used to Get.  If you’ve got something you want us to investigate, drop us a line.
What the heck does the trade deadline even mean, anyway?  It just happened on July 31st, yet MLB [...]

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World’s Largest Matzah Ball Benefits Basketball (Might Also Taste Like One)

When we’re not watching painful baseball beatdowns, we love this job, because we get to write about things we never thought we’d get to.
This evening, members of the Tribe….no, not that Tribe…will go to synagogues all over America.  The luckiest of them will even perhaps run into UPH.
The rest of them, however, can still be [...]

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Q. So, When Will the Indians Be Any Good, Anyway? A. Sooner Than You Think!

So, one could, if one were callous and mean, make the argument that this post is a bit belated.  We here at UPH prefer to think of delaying it as waiting until the dust has settled, thank you.
Forthwith, a little analysis.
At the trade deadline, the Indians sent Victor Martinez to the Red Sox, in return [...]

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