Throwback Thursday (aka, massive links dump, continued)

Since I posted the first of these on a Thursday, which is known on social media as a time of reflection, I thought to make it a regular thing under this rubric. These are kind of fun; it’s like a box of chocolates — you never know what you’re gonna get. (Actually, I never understood that famous quote from Forrest Gump. If it’s a box of chocolate covered cherries, don’t you know exactly what you’re going to get?)

On the one hand, I’m happy to report that I’m catching up / running out of these old links (some are no longer “with us”). On the other hand, it’s been cool reminiscing.

As a reminder,

I highly recommend Pocket as a way to hold onto links you come that you want to keep. Unlike bookmarks, Pocket keeps the entire page and makes it relative easy for you to find stuff you “pocketed.” I have keepers going back six years — more than 5,000 links — and I’ve decided it’s time to start cleaning house so here are some submitted for your amusement, perusal, and education. Some are not current, but in a sense, they’re timeless. They’re presented in reverse order (oldest first).

Fantography.com was set up several years ago as a sort of Flickr for baseball fans. Non-pro photographers were asked to submit photos from their trips to the various ballparks. This became the basis for Baseball Fantography: A Celebration in Snapshots and Stories from the Fans, by Andy Strasberg. If you look at the first picture in the second row of this gallery, that’s me with another Ron — Hunt, formerly of the New York Mets and Montreal Expos — taken at an old timers game in 2003.
Speaking of the Expos, here’s a French-language book about the team, Il Etait une Fois…Les Expos T02: Les Années 1985-2004. It’s actually the second volume. I’m guessing the other is available as well.
Although the season is in full wing, here’s a piece on “Your Off-Season Survival Guide” from SB Nation which just happens to give a link t this humble blog.
In 2012, artist Bethany Heck put out a very attractive Eeephus League Magazine on the Issuu site. I haven’t seen one since, which is a shame but I imagine this took a lot of work to create.
Long-time readers of this blog know about my fascination with cricket. Right off the Bat contains the best of both bat-and-ball worlds. The hosts, Evander Lomke and Martin Rowe published Right Off the Bat: Baseball, Cricket, Literature, and Life to go along with the site.

Here’s an NPR “Talk of the Nation” segment featuring Chad Harbach, author of The Art of Fielding.
The Essential W. P. Kinsella came out in March. Here’s an article that discusses the author’s receiving an award from the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 2011.