From the Comics I Don’t Understand site:
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“Oddballs”
You have to fill it with something… Sure, the beer is $12 but you get to keep the cup! How cool is that? Actually, wouldn’t it be great if you could fish in your pocket, count your change, and ask for three ounces? Hat tip to Ed Achorn , author of The Summer of Beer […]
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Actually, I found this on the top shelf of the linen closest but the principle is the same. This comes from the era when Trivial Pursuit was a big hit: Typical card: (Note the typo in the last question. See? It’s not just me.) Reminds me of a fold-out I recently tossed out (believe it […]
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Two, actually. Not that it’s always easy to spell: Anyway, this comes from our friend Craig Robinson, author Flip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure and host of the always-entertaining FlipFlopFlyball site
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I was the manager of the Brooklyn College baseball team in the mid-late 70s. One of the responsibilities was keeping the score book. That’s tough enough to do when you don’t know the guys on the team. In a display of schadenfreude, pitchers want fielders to get errors so their earned run averages don’t go […]
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The New York Times ran this marvelous story about the annual Complete Book of Baseball (and lesser sports) edited by Zander Hollander. A nice history lesson. I still have all of these, along with their predecessor, The xxxx Major League Baseball Handbook. These paperbacks sold for, like 50 cents, maybe a buck towards the end […]
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That same paper by Chad Sabadie also uncovered another John Ford TV play touching on an ersatz Black Sox situation featuring some high-powered names . Flashing Spikes was an episode under the Alcoa Presents umbrella starring Jimmy Stewart as a former player who had conspired with six other players (Seven Men Out?) to throw a […]
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Funny how stream of consciousness works. I was tooling around on the web and came across a paper by Chad Sabadie on “America’s Presstime: How Images Of Baseball Reporters Have Shaped the Prception of Our National Sport and The Profession Of Journalism.” Quite interesting, if not wholly accurate. Any baseball reader or movie-goer knows about […]
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Earlier today the Pittsburgh Pirates placed 36-year-old closer Jason Grilli — recently selected for his first All-Star Game — on the 15-day disabled list with a strain in his right forearm.
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Because I find cricket so fascinating. From The Wall Street Journal‘s Daily Fix blog: The Ashes: Record-Breaking Day at the Bottom of the Order In cricket the last slot in the batting order is a little like the pitcher’s spot in National League baseball. It’s usually reserved for your weakest hitter and you’d be crazy […]
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From the folks at Mental Floss. Just curious: As a New Yorker, I know there are “official” songs for the Mets and Yankees. And “Tessie” has historically been considered the theme for the Boston Red Sox There are lots of songs about teams, but I’m just looking for more “official” tunes. For example, is this […]
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Or, ‘What’s a ball game without a nosh?’ From this week’s “Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank” round of my favorite NPR podcast: PETER SAGAL: Cincinnati Reds reliever Aroldis Chapman pitched the worst game of his career after blanking. FAITH SALIE: Michele? (Editor’s Note: a reference to that show’s “Not My Job” guest, sports side-line reporter Michele Tafoya) (LAUGHTER) […]
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So was the guy holding out the candy bar like it was a microphone/recording device?
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I’m sure I corresponded about this with Dave Jamieson after my recent purchase of a pack of 2013 cards and well before this NY Times story came out, but can’t seem to find a record in any of my e-mail accounts. Drives me nuts. Anyway, has anyone else notice that Topps changed its card-numbering system? […]
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I have been begging for an update of the classic Dodger Dogs to Fenway Franks: The Ultimate Guide to America’s Top Baseball Parks, originally published in 1988 by Bob Wood. If they ever get around to do that, they’ll have to update the info to include not only the new teams, as well as the […]
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That remains to be seen, but Baseball National posted this about one of the few baseball movies that I have missed: the 1953 vehicle Big Leaguer, starring Edward G. Robinson as a former, well, big leaguer. Pro ballplayers Tony Ravish (!), Bob Trocolor, Harv Tomtor (in an uncredited role), and Al “Necessities” Campanis all appeared […]
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Some people are nostalgic for the old days. Boomers might think the 1950s and 1960s were the best of times (despite social unrest, Jim Crow laws, fewer rights for women, worse health care, etc.). Their parents might think it was the simple more innocent time of the 30s and 40s. I know I long for […]
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