This is a preview of the Joe Sheehan Baseball Newsletter, an e-mail newsletter about all things baseball, featuring analysis and opinion about the game on and off the field from the perspective of the informed outsider. Joe Sheehan is a founding member of Baseball Prospectus and has been a contributor to Sports Illustrated and Baseball America. He has been writing about baseball for nearly 25 years.
Your subscription gets you the newsletter and various related features two to five days a week, more than 150 mailings (more than 200,000 words) a year full of smart, fun baseball writing that you can't find in the mainstream. Subscribers can also access the new Slack workspace, to talk baseball with me and hundreds of other Newsletter subscribers.You can subscribe to the newsletter for one year for $59.95 using your PayPal account or major credit card.
--
"These are the signature franchises in the history of the National League. The Dodgers have won 24 NL pennants, the Giants 23. They were tentpoles in New York and their paired move to California reshaped the baseball map. The longest stretch of National League baseball played without one of the two being its champion is 11 years, and that took a format change and a Braves dynasty to come about. At one point in the 1950s, the teams won six straight NL pennants between them. Today, they have won six of the last 11 and whoever wins tonight’s game will be a considerable favorite to make that seven of 12."