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. On the other hand, it’s been cool reminiscing.
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. Note: Sometimes individual sites remove the content or simply cease their existence, so Pocket isn’t 100 percent foolproof.
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♦ I would venture to guess that the recent release of Jon Leonoukasis‘ documentary Hano: A Century in the Bleachers has renewed interest in the classic title, A Day in the Bleachers. Can’t say if the price for this edition with artwork by Mark Ulriksen remains the same, but the page is still fun to look at.
♦ Graham Womack wrote about “Reading Bill James for the First Time” on the Baseball: Past and Present site in 2012.
♦ Womack also wrote about the sticky situation of “Getting an autograph as an adult.”
♦ In 2012, Dinged Corners asked if $3.19 was the “new normal” for a pack of baseball cards. How much does a pack cost these days?
♦ This is what we should be expected from the internet. I wish I could produce stuff like “The Long Strange Trip of Dock Ellis,” but then I don’t have the resources of an ESPN.
♦ I usually don’t like Deadspin. When they first started out, I considered them the TMZ of sports sites. But once in a while, they do ask interesting questions, rather than spew gossip and dish the dirt. Case in point: “What If Baseball’s Foul Lines Ran On Forever?“
♦ Scott Tobias reviewed the documentary Knuckleball for NPR.
♦ I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: one of these day’s I’m going to produce something (book, essay, clip show) of all the baseball figures who have appeared in movies and on TV either as themselves or others.
♦ How did a movie like Trouble with the Curve ever get 17 positive reviews? Fifty percent on the Tomatometer? Now that’s more like it.
♦ NPR’s Scott Simon conducted this interview with Ray Negron, author of Yankee Miracles, in which he tells his story of rising up through the ranks of Yankee baseball from bat boy to head of community outreach for one of the most storied teams in major league baseball.
♦ A Wednesday Book Review of John Grisham’s Calico Joe.
♦ And an honest “Review of Zack Hample‘s Watching Baseball Smarter from somebody not annoyed with Zack Hample” via SB Nation.
♦ Baker’s Dozen Bonus: David Simon — of The Wire and Homicide: Life on The Streets fame — wrote a cover story about his beloved Baltimore Orioles for Sports Illustrated’s Oct. 1, 2012 edition, which you can read here thanks to the new and improved SI Vault site. Let’s hope they keep it this way from now on rather than keep screwing around with it.
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