Article Lead Image

Keith Allison/Flickr

The 10 best baseball accounts on Twitter

Arm yourselves with the best of social media heading into the second half of the season.

Photo of Josh Katzowitz 

Josh Katzowitz

Internet Culture

Posted on Jul 16, 2015   Updated on May 28, 2021, 8:26 am CDT

We should be watching baseball today. We should be recovering from our hangover from Tuesday’s All-Star game by drinking a little hair of the dog. But instead, this country’s oldest national pastime is off the grid until Friday. Even watching two sub-.500 teams battle it out in front of 12,000 fans would be comparable to no baseball whatsoever.

But as always, Twitter is there for your entertainment. Nothing is happening on the baseball fields of America tonight, but that doesn’t mean that the discerning baseball fans can’t entertain themselves waiting for Friday’s action with some quality baseball-centric accounts.

Here are 10 of our favorite MLB Twitter feeds, in no particular order. Because if you can’t read about a pitcher suggesting a ménage à trois to his wife, what’s the point of signing up for social media in the first place?

1) Brandon McCarthy (@bmccarthy), Dodgers pitcher, 168K followers

We enjoy it when professional athletes show their quirky side. McCarthy certainly qualifies as having one of those.

Not to mention an understanding wife.

2) MLB Cathedrals (@MLBcathedrals), 61.2 K followers

As the Twitter bio states, this account provides a “photo history of everything MLB ballparks, past & present.” And it’s beyond awesome if you love looking at long-lost stadium relics of the past. Since it’s such a cool feed, here are three examples of what you’ll see if you press the follow button.

3) Old Hoss Radbourn (@OldHossRadbourn), long-dead baseball player parody account, 70.9K followers

Probably the funniest baseball account out there. Radbourn, a pitcher and rightfielder, played 11 years of pro ball—mostly in the 1880s—and he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1937. He died in 1897, but that doesn’t mean he can’t be resurrected for this life in order to haunt us.

https://twitter.com/OldHossRadbourn/status/621158894757388288

https://twitter.com/OldHossRadbourn/status/616805111327801345

4) Joe Posnanski (@jposnanski), NBC Sports writer, 111K

My all-time favorite sports reporter, Posnanski writes so beautifully about baseball that it’s almost painful to read.

5) John Thorn (@thorn_john), official MLB historian, 11.5K followers

If you like to ponder the history of baseball, Thorn is your man. He tweets old-timey photos, old-timey newspaper articles, and old-timey everything else. Thorn pairs nicely with MLB Cathedrals.

6) MLB Jersey Numbers (@NumbersMLB), 5.6K followers

This account isn’t witty. It’s probably not going to make you laugh. Or get you so worked up that you can’t think straight. No, this account is about jersey numbers—who’s wearing what and where and who wore it the time before—and jersey numbers only.

7) Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS), CBS Sports insider, 360K followers

There are a number of national baseball writers—the guys who break the most news, major or minute—one could follow, but since I used to work at CBS, I’ll go with Heyman, who continuously churns out tweets that are either newsworthy or semi-interesting. Another national reporter to follow is Fox Sports ace Ken Rosenthal.

8) SABR (@sabr), Society for American Baseball Research, 24.9K followers

Though in the past several years, SABR has become associated with Sabermetrics in determining the baseball statistics that truly matter, this is actually a society that researches—and loves the hell out of—the game. As the society writes on its website, “SABR members have a variety of interests, and this is reflected in the diversity of its research committees. There are more than two dozen groups devoted to the study of a specific area related to the game—from Baseball and the Arts to Statistical Analysis to the Deadball Era to Women in Baseball.”

9) Chipper Jones (@RealCJ10), former Braves infielder, 476K followers

Because sometimes you just need to follow probable future Hall of Famers who will feud like crazy while spelling out conspiracy theories.

10) Dan Haren (@ithrow88), Marlins pitcher, 12.8K followers

He doesn’t have nearly the Twitter followers of McCarthy, but Haren’s Twitter handle is light years more outstanding and he can be just as funny.

And Haren can burn with the best of them, like when Vernon Wells, who’s no longer in the league, asked if Haren would toss BP to him.

Photo via Keith Allison/Flickr (CC BY SA 2.0)

Share this article
*First Published: Jul 16, 2015, 7:25 pm CDT

Josh Katzowitz

Josh Katzowitz is a staff writer at the Daily Dot specializing in YouTube and boxing. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. A longtime sports writer, he's covered the NFL for CBSSports.com and boxing for Forbes. His work has been noted twice in the Best American Sports Writing book series.

Josh Katzowitz