A thought occurred to me as I was posting about the passing of Ryne Sandberg.
Although I still subscribe to the physical edition of The New York Times, I also have the app which sometimes will publish several days ahead of the print version. I have frequently found that an obituary not not appear for a while which leads me down the rabbit hole of wondering about how we obtain our news.
Anyway, on with the show…
♦ There will always be arguments about who were the greatest players in the game. A new study — “Comparing baseball players across eras via novel Full House Modeling” (which you can read here) — purports to do just that. I took a quick look at the paper and decided there’s too much math involved for me. Reminded me of Earnest Cook’s Percentage Baseball, which I bought back when I was 10. I still don’t understand most of it.
♦ Baseball: A History of America’s Game, by Benjamin Rader, recently came out in its fifth edition. Pete Peterson and Brad Palmer discussed it on the “Reading Baseball” segment on WSIU public radio, deeming it “one of the best” in this baseball subgenre.
♦ From the Los Angeles Times syndicate, “Shohei Ohtani becomes an author with a book starring his dog Decoy out next year.” No surprise that it’s a book for kids. An aside: when I was in Japan in March, you couldn’t go a block without seeing some image of Ohtani, whether it was a billboard, an advertisement on the train, video playing on buildings (and, again, on trains), even beverage vending machines.
♦ From the Cape Cod Baseball League website, “Their take on the Cape: Boston’s sports writing legends come to Falmouth to find baseball in its purest form.” A nice tribute to Dan Shaugnessy, Leight Montville, Bob Ryan, and Peter Gammons. (Photo credit: Alexa Harbach)
♦ This piece on Justice Batted Last: Ernie Banks, Minnie Miñoso, and the Unheralded Players Who Integrated Chicago’s Major League Teams, by Don Zminda, on 3rdCoastReview, a Chicago arts outlet.
♦ And finally, looking for someone to put together a collection of these things based on “Hall of Fame Induction Speeches, based on “Ichiro Suzuki adds humorous touches to Hall of Fame induction ceremonies from The Independent. Should be easy enough to gather, but I wonder about those pesky rights.
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