Don is the author of 2019 Casey Award nominee "The Legendary Harry Caray" and "Double Plays & Double Crosses: The Black Sox & Baseball in 1920" (March 2021).
Joined October 2011
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7 Apr 2021
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).
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17 May 2024
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/_2EGroEukt4… via @YouTube
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28 Jun 2023
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!
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21 May 2023
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!
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11 May 2023
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.
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11 May 2023
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.)
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4 May 2023
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?
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27 Apr 2023
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.
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26 Apr 2023
Hoping that maybe the Bears could draft the "best available baseball player" and lend him to the White Sox....
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24 Apr 2023
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.
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23 Apr 2023
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?
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20 Apr 2023
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."
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10 Apr 2023
Hobie Landrith, the First New York Met, Dies at 93 nytimes.com/2023/04/09/sport…
Last year when I was doing research on Sam Jones, I had a wonderful phone conversation with Hobie, who was Sam's personal catcher with 3 teams. A sweety guy. RIP.
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19 Mar 2023
With former Cub (and talented trumpeter) Carmen Fanzone and his wife, jazz singer Sue Raney, at Saturday's SABR LA regional in Placentia. Sue even did an acapella version of "Van Lingle Mungo"! @sabr
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17 Feb 2023
I worked with Tim on FOX broadcasts for nearly 15 years. He was smart, passionate, fun, great to talk to & interact with. And he was the best BB TV analyst ever. For years I've kept a voicemail on my phone from him, just because it was from Tim. Like so many, I will miss him.
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15 Feb 2023
I have just registered for this summer's SABR convention in my old home town... my 35th SABR National. Hope to see many of you there!
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14 Feb 2023
Congratulations to my friends Steve Gietschier and Mark Rucker, as well as to Robert Whiting, on winning SABR's prestigious Henry Chadwick Award. Well done! @sabr
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3 Feb 2023
Kudos to my buddies Mark and Dan on winning the Seymour Medal (do they get half a medal each?) for their terrific book.
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31 Jan 2023
Here's hoping that when I die, I won't be said to have had "a complicated legacy."
Bobby Hull’s Golden Hockey Career Diminished by His Troubling Dark Side nytimes.com/2023/01/30/sport…
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22 Jan 2023
RIP Lin Brehmer, beloved Chicago rock-jock for WXRT... and baseball fan.
22 Jan 2023
Lin was the best Cubs fan there was. The guy with his ski goggles on in Section 229 on a cold April day. He had a “No Lights” t-shirt, then quickly got rid of it when he realized more night games meant he could see more baseball at Wrigley. His Opening Day broadcasts were epic.
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