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Good news/bad news

June 9, 2011

The good news is that Time Magazine has seen fit to choose a baseball blog as one of its “Best of 2011.” The bad news is that it isn’t the Bookshelf. Curse you, MLBTradeRumors.com.

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Bits and pieces

April 20, 2011

Time once again for a major links dump to make up for bad behavior. Warning: some of these links go back to March. Just sayin’. * A member of Red Sox Nation pays tribute to a “mortal enemy” by giving the NY Times photo book on Derek Jeter the thumbs up. * The Wall Street […]

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Bits and pieces

March 22, 2011

It’s amazing how everyday life can get in the way of posting here lately. In a poor attempt to compensate, here’s the occasional links dump. A review of John Thorn’s Baseball and the Garden of Eden from The Hardball Times. Upshot: “It must be said that Thorn is a historian first and a writer second. […]

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Shameless self-promotion

February 7, 2011

If you’re not otherwise busy watching Gossip Girls or some such nonsense, I will be guesting on What’s On Second: The Seamhead.com Radio Hour (not to be confused with The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour… or is it? Hmmm.) Anyway, the festivities begin at 9 p.m. and I’m slated to go on at 9:15 p.m. EST […]

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Hardball Times made easy

February 1, 2011

is one of my favorite sites, offering a nice combination of through-provoking writing with statistical analyses (perhaps a tad heavier on the latter than I normally like, but what the hey…). They posted this today, which I’m reprinting as a public service, just in case you don’t get over there that much. It’s worth the […]

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Today is BBA Day

December 10, 2010

Don’t look for it on you calendar, but today is Baseball Blogger Alliance Day. BBA is a group of bloggers — some 230 or so — who banded together, as it were, in 2009.  There’s at least one blogger per Major league team except, inexplicably, the Atlanta Braves (although that might have changed by the […]

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As previously mentioned on more than one occasion, I belong to the Baseball Bloggers Alliance where I serve as president of the category of the BBA that defies definition. While most of the 230 or so blogs in the Alliance are team-centric, this “miscellaneous” merry band of men and women (we’re working on  a better […]

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Bits and pieces

October 25, 2010

An occasional wrap-up of things that have fallen through the cracks. A review of Baseball Is America: Origins and History: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by Victor Alexander Baltov, Jr. A review of Fifty-Nine in ’84, Edward Achorn’s biography of Hoss Radbourn. Len Berman, author of a new kid’s book on the greats […]

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As mentioned last week,  I belong to the Baseball Bloggers Alliance where I serve as president of the category of the BBA that defies definition. While most of the 230 or so blogs in the Alliance are team-centric, this “miscellaneous” merry band of men and women (we’re working on  a better designation) take a wider […]

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The Casey cliche

July 2, 2010

Why do so many stories about baseball — especially old-tyme baseball — feature a character named Casey? In this case, it’s a 50-year-old episode of Twilight Zone titled, “The Mighty Casey.” My arch-nemesis, Books on Baseball, did the legwork on this one.

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Brian Cronin of The Los Angeles Times blogs about Sports Legends Revealed in which he takes on a Rob Neyer-ish tone about our cherished (?) beliefs. He is also thoughtful enough to single out the baseball items.

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if not a tiny scoreboard. Mental Floss, a bright and funny publication in which a couple of my articles have appeared (and one day again, I hope. Hint, hint, Mental Floss; I have no shame) published this brief history on the evolution of the scoreboard. The piece also links to some other cool baseball items, […]

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Bits and pieces

May 22, 2010

SFReeper critiques Emma Span’s look at the game from the distaff side and Jason Turbow’s do’s and dont’s. If the British read Moneyball, do they have to convert it into pounds or euros? The AV Club conducted this Q&A with Dan Epstein, author of Big Hair & Plastic Grass. You gotta wonder if he grew […]

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I started this blog because I have always been fascinated with the creative process. Where do and author’s ideas come from? How does he do his research? What obstacles does she have along the way? I have been remiss. It has been brought to my attention that the author is just one part of the […]

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* Opening day thoughts

April 6, 2010

Since you can keep a newspaper on your bookshelf, I suppose I could do this on a daily basis. Hmm. April Fool. There are plenty of other blogs that can take care of that. What? Man, I gotta get rid of these Page-a-Day calendars. I’m just too disorganized. First of all, just wanted to let […]

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The MLB Network isn’t the only entity examining “30 teams in 30 days.” I participated in a couple of “round table” discussions with the good folks at Inside Pulse Sports recently about what the 2010 season might hold for the Mets and Nationals, my two favorite teams. You can read the Mets piece here and […]

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It seems that offering free PDFs as a way to garner attention for one’s website/blog/publication is rapidly gaining favor. POD (Print on demand) offers the author/publisher to produce only the amount of copies needed, rather than kill an bunch of trees for nothing. A few weeks ago, SABR published its Emerald Guide to Baseball as […]

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* Where's the love?

March 1, 2010

Sniff. Sniff. HufPo contributor Bill Lucey offers his opinion on the best baseball blogs on the web (redundancy?).

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To mark the opening of spring training, I will be making my podcast debut tomorrow (Feb. 16) at 11 p.m. Eastern, on BBA Baseball Talk, a weekly program on Blog Talk Radio. The Baseball Bloggers Alliance is a confederation of 132 blogs working together for collaboration and discussion possibilities. This one-hour show will discuss the […]

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* Well that was easy

February 17, 2010 · 4 comments

Last night marked my debut as a podcaster, sharing the stage with Daniel from C70 at Bat, a Cardinals-centric blog on BBA Baseball Talk, hosted on BlogTalkRadio. (FYI, the BBA — Baseball Bloggers Alliance — is a cooperative of folks who host blogs about the national pastime. Many are tram-centric; others, like mine, focus on […]

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