Lee Lowenfish

Entry of May 19th
On The Errors of Enthusiasm

One of Branch Rickey’s favorite quotations was from Anatole France: “I much prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.” One of the early definitions of the word enthusiasm in the ancient Greek was “extravagant religious zealotry” and  Read More 

More Tantalizing Questions of “If Baseball History”
Entry of May 15th

Yesterday I raised the intriguing speculative question about what if baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis had lived for at least another year past his death in November 1944 and was faced with the contract that Dodgers president Branch Rickey had signed with Jackie Robinson.  Read More