Billy Martin, during the 1959 season. This photo, and a lot of other terrific old photographs, is found in the Life photo archive, hosted by Google. Get ready to waste a few hours.

The 1908 Cubs and their hilarious mascot. Read who's in the photo and some other facts over at Big League Stew.

Jason Kipnis, a moment ago on Twitter. I believe he thinks he's part of a pretty good team, and I'm not going to argue that point today.

The Blue Jays signed another ex-Indian infielder.

Paul Hoynes, trying to contact someone in Casey Blake's camp via Direct Message (I suspect).

Trememdnous photo of Alex Cole and Albert Belle, from the SI_Valut Twitter feed, which is really a great follow for this kind of thing.

July 24, 1911. Addie Joss benefit game Panoramic photo. See if you can find Ty Cobb, Cy Young and Joe Jackson, who all played for the Naps that day,and lost 5-3 to the "All-Star team." Courtesy of Ninety Feet of Perfection. FULL SIZE

Having to re-learn Adobe Illustrator for work, so I spent the afternoon refamiliarizing myself by doing a lousy knock-off of a great Albert Belle photo (http://images.wikia.com/baseball/images/3/30/Albert_Belle.jpg). Figured, why not let this into the world, where it can do so much good?

Larry Doby will get his own postage stamp next July.

Manny was about as enamored with the umpiring as LGT was last night. From Y!, with video of the Sipp play.