SI‘s Joe Posnanski picks his 32 favorite covers in the 50+ history of the magazine here. They’re not all baseball, but as Spencer Tracy said in Pat and Mike, “what’s there is cherce.”
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The cover of this week’s issue, which features Minnesota Twins’ power-hitter Jim Thome, struck me as eerily reminiscent of a long-ago photo: Well, maybe not so much, but pretty close. Anyway, Thome gets the main feature, written by Joe Posnanski. JoPos also writes about Derek Jeter’s upcoming free agency, but surprisingly, there’s no mention of […]
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Of course, football dominates this week, so the lone baseball item in Sports Illustrated is The Amazing Race, by L. Jon Wertheim: “How Ty Cobb, Nap Lajoie, a grudge-holding manager, a clumsy bribe, shoddy record-keeping and a very cool car made the batting title chase a national obsession 100 years ago.”
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The annual List Issue features some interesting baseball items including a feature on September call-ups, by Jeff Bradley. But the fun part is the lists which feature Most postseasons without winning a World Series (led by Kenny Lofton’s 11) The most common surnames by decade (Johnson, 5, followed by Smith, 4) Most games played all […]
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Baseball items include The Embarrassment of Riches, about the McCourt divorce battle by Lee Jenkins, and Is It Next Year Yet?, an update on Billy Beane by Ben Reiter.
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The top baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Friday, Aug. 27. Title Rank General Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis 1 The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran, by Dirk Hayhurst 2 The Game from Where I Stand: A Ballplayer’s Inside View, by Doug Glanville […]
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Cover boy Joey Votto of the Reds merits a major profile by L. Jon Wertheim, while Tom Verducci ponders the magic (and surprising) season to date. Other baseball items include Bruce Chen’s piece on September call-ups; Lee Jenkins on Miguel Tejeda; and Ben Reiter on the Twins.
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The main story — and it’s a biggie — is Bruce Schoenfeld’s “Stealing Home,” an ode to a dying art.
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Yes! The double “Where are they now” issue! The mag includes pieces on Orel Hershiser, Stan Musial (by Joe Posnanski), and the print edition has a page comparing the managerial careers of Lou Pinella vs. Lou Brown, probably more well known by the actor who portrayed him, James Gannon. Gannon died July 16 at the […]
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So here’s a list of unusual injuries sustained by players this season, courtesy of SI.com’s Hot Clicks blog: — Feb. 12: Brad Bergesen, Orioles: Strained his shoulder filming a TV commercial for the team. — May 29: Kendry Morales, Angels: Broke his leg celebrating a walk-off home run at home plate. — June 30: Luke […]
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The Mental Floss website offers these quizzes: Did he throw a no-hitter? The Simpsons softball quiz The baseball card brand quiz
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The issue went to press too soon to include the passing of George Steinbrenner. Instead the main story was the aftermath of “The Decision.” Baseball stories include: A Tom Verducci profile of the Tigers’ Miguel Cabrera, who’s been putting up Triple Crown numbers so far. A look at the Cliff Lee trade. Who’s MLB’s most […]
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Serena Williams wins covers honor for her Wimbledon victory. Baseball items include: Which shortstop has the best range? Tom Verducci on this year’s (young) All-Star selections L. Jon Wertheim on the woes that have befallen the Pirates, complete with sidebar
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Not really, but I thought it was a cute way to introduce this Atlantic article on “How Justice Stevens Changed Baseball,” by Henry D. Fetter, author of Taking on the Yankees: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball. In 1951, the future Justice Stevens was a young antitrust lawyer in Chicago when he was […]
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James Traub has two piece in this weekend’s Times: A critique of The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macorís, by Mark Kurlansky in the book review section (which the critic deems a “charming and finely observed, if somewhat formless, baseball travelogue”), and a profile of Yankees’ reliever Mariano […]
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With five no-hitters in the book (depending on your philosophy) in the books, SI‘s cover story by Albert Chen considers the dominance of pitchers in 2010. Whoa. I was just about to link to this story and this is what I got. Will someone please tell Apple there are still a few of us who […]
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In today’s installment, the missing words are “Baseball cards,” as discussed in this piece from the Sports Illustrated website on Josh Wilker’s book Cardboard Gods, as per Ted Anthony, who writes about American culture for the Associated Press: baseball-card blogger and memoirist Josh Wilker has come through. The unforgettable “Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told […]
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Sorry, no major baseball stories this week. Just wanted to let you know.
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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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Nationals phenom Stephen Strasburg is the latest to contend with the dreaded SI cover curse. Albert Chen does the editorial honors with this profile and a sidebar, which I’m guessing looks much better in the magazine than on the website. The other baseball feature, written by Pablo Torre, considers Ian Snell and others who suffer […]
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