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Hey I don’t have a great mind for this kind of thing so would appreciate if anyone can turn on the lightbulb.

I’m trying to determine the total number of baseball games that were played by all the teams in an amateur league that just wrapped up. The data I have is the total number of games played per team.

Simple enough, right? I added the total number of games and it came to 1,781. I then divided it by two since each game is of course played by two of the teams. But how can you have 890.5 games?

I double checked the numbers. Either something is off with the source data or I am thinking about this all wrong.

Anyone out there?

Hey everyone, first timer checking in. I have tickets for the Bananas game in MPLS on Saturday but can’t make it. I decided to list them on marketplace but then it walks through all these steps like linking your bank account info. It stopped me short a little.

Is this legit? I’m about to link my bank account using something called Stripe. Following instructions from an app I downloaded based on a website that recommended it. The website link was in an email. It would be an elaborate scam but the successful ones often are 🤔

Can anyone here confirm this is legit before I link my bank account? I want to avoid the secondary market BS but also don’t want to get hacked. Thanks!

I randomly came across this video and thought I’d share. It‘s an ABC TV special chronicling the 1970 Duluth-Superior Dukes. The Dukes were a Short Season A-ball affiliate of the White Sox, competing as one of six teams in the Northern League.

The special cites a statistic that only 5% of minor leaguers make the bigs. The 1970 Dukes defied those odds, with four of their 26 players eventually making the show. Lamar Johnson played in the AL from ‘74-‘82 and accumulated a respectable 5.9 career bWAR.

1970 turned out to be the last season of the Dukes and the last time Duluth had affiliated ball. The Northern League eked out one final season in ‘71 with only four clubs before fading away. A new version of the Northern League (and a new version of the Dukes) booted up in the 90s with the novel concept of independent baseball. Remnants of this league still exist in the American Association.

85-year-old Wade Stadium still exists, and having been there as recently as August 2025, I‘m astounded how much it still looks like it does in this video. The only major change is that it now has artificial turf. It’s my favorite ballpark. Grew up watching Ila Borders and the indy Dukes and now take the kids to summer collegiate Huskies games. We met HOFer Adrian Beltre there last year when his son was playing for the Mankato MoonDogs. Great guy! It was easy to identify his flashy sports car in the cracked parking lot beside brown brick Wade Stadium.

I recommend watching at least the first few minutes of the video. If nothing else to see the torn up hand-me-down Sox roadies the players had to wear. This was definitely the dark ages for MiLB, and it wasn’t until the post-Bull Durham boom that things really perked up. Beyond all the bobble heads and theme nights and alternative identities, there’s such a rich history in the minors.