Fantasy Baseball: The Momentous Drawing of the Sport’s 19th-Century “Color Line” is still Tripping up History Writers / by Howard W. Rosenberg / (originally posted on June 14, 2016 on The Atavist.com. Because the Atavist.com expects to go dark in 2021, it is redirecting visitors of his essay to this WordPress.com link)

Droysen holds that historians must speculate.  The alternative is to have no history at all, but only a collection of facts. –– Historical Knowledge, Historical Error: A Contemporary Guide to Practice (University of Chicago Press, 2007)          Invoking German historian J. G. Droysen (1808-84), University of Virginia history professor Allan Megill andContinue reading “Fantasy Baseball: The Momentous Drawing of the Sport’s 19th-Century “Color Line” is still Tripping up History Writers / by Howard W. Rosenberg / (originally posted on June 14, 2016 on The Atavist.com. Because the Atavist.com expects to go dark in 2021, it is redirecting visitors of his essay to this WordPress.com link)”