“Dandy Sandy” made his big league debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers on June 24, 1955 (so I’m early, so sue me). In his honor, I offer this video tribute featuring the dulcet tones of Jimmy Durante.
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Bits and Pieces
From the Online Media Daily Web site: Nike created a print ad that ran last week in USA Today, the Seattle Times/Post Intelligencer and the Cincinnati Enquirer that commemorates Ken Griffey Jr.’s 600th home run. “As long as I have fun playing, the stats will take care of themselves,” reads the animated ad featuring Griffey […]
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I remember when it used to be a real coup to get the AL Red Book and NL Green Book. As a kid, I used to write a very polite, respectful letter to the powers that be, requesting these fun, fact-filled books (I especially like the pronunciation guides and detailed descriptions of the teams’ uniforms […]
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In my “travels,” I’ve come across a few other book review sites. In the interest of literary cooperation, I’m listing them here for your perusal: The Baseball Book Blog. Seems to be a frequently-updated list of baseball bestsellers according to Amazon.com, with some other book news. The Baseball Book Review. Just what it says: reviews […]
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I could understand the car wash gig. But this?? From a guy who could barely keep the tobacco juice from dribbling down his chin?
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Richard Sandomir, the sports media columnist for The New York Times, wrote this piece about the new Joe Jackson museum opening in Greenville, SC. “Admission is free but donations will be appreciated to augment the meager, privately financed budget. Marcley says there are enough Jackson fans to make this personal and passionate campaign succeed.”
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Like the nerdy math genius at school who figures out a way to make a few bucks by crunching the numbers for sports betting, this piece from Scientific American warns about putting money down on a team that travels across the country. The results of the three-hour time difference can throw off the athletes’ circadian […]
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include Tales from the Colorado Rockies, The Summer Game by Roger Angell, and three “must-haves” (according to the writer): “October 1964, by the late, great David Halberstam; Babe: The Legend Comes to Life, by Robert W. Creamer; and Clemente, by David Maraniss.”
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According to the Web site, MIStupid.com (“The online knowledge magazine”), the average life of a baseball is seven pitches.
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I came upon this completely by accident. When you open a document in Adobe Acrobat Reader (I use version 8.1.2 and don’t know if this feature appears in earlier versions) and click on “View,” the damn program reads the document to you! It’s not foolproof, doesn’t work with every document — it seems to be […]
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(Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be a regular feature.) Reading the new book by John Feinstein. I’ve always enjoyed his work, especially on baseball and golf, but I came across this paragraph and it got my eyes rolling: On page 155, Feinstein writes: Joe Torre, who came up to the majors as a catcher, […]
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Catching up a bit: Bob Murcer’s autobiography as reviewed on MLB.com The Griddle on Baseballtoaster.com considers Peter Morris’ latest, But Didn’t We Have Fun? wickedlocal.com, a Massachusetts Web site, reports on an appearance by author Jim Collins at a Cape Cod high school. Collins is the author of The Last Best League: One Summer, One […]
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Riffing on the cover of this week’s Sports Illustrated, “Richie Rich” on homerunderby.com, posts this entry on the sports as played by superheroes.
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According to this story in the Los Angeles Daily News, the court martial papers for Jackie Robinson are being auctioned by Memory Lane, a sports memorabilia dealer in Tustin, in public event that ends at 5 p.m. Saturday, May 24. So there’s still time.
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The future Hall of Fame catcher called it quits on May 20. I felt bad for Piazza and the handful of veterans from last season who weren’t able to find a job in 2008. It’s not so much that they weren’t, as how they were basically ignored and just left to blow away in the […]
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From Joshreads.com, aka. The Comics Curmudgeon Dennis the Menace, 5/16/08 America = freedom Baseball = “America’s pastime” Dennis hates baseball Dennis hates freedom? Dennis is a terrorist and/or communist? Dennis is menacing? Good enough. Tee time!
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Wowio.com, a great (albeit somewhat limited) source for free, downloadable books in PDF format offers a few surprisingly high-quality baseball titles in its inventory. All you need to do is register and you can download a maximum of three titles per day. As of this writing — and new books are added frequently — the […]
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This was gleaned (i.e. shamelessly copied) from the always-entertaining Comics Curmudgeon blog: Gil Thorp, 5/6/08 That’s right, Andrew, it’s time to “unleash that slider”, if you know what I mean, and I think you do. But just in case you don’t, what I mean is that you should drop your pants and expose your genitals […]
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Time to play catch-up again. From Great Britain’s Guardian, this article about Billy Beane and the Moneyball phenomenon. Why on earth would it appear in a British paper? Because Beane is “Tottenham Hotspur fanatic, as well as a fan of the team’s coach, Sir Alex Ferguson. A list of recommended baseball novels from the Campaign […]
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is available on Amazon.com,
