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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Me and Yu and a Dog Named Boo
Turns out Japanese pitching sensation Yu Darvish will probably be signing with Nolan Ryan and his Rangers. Earlier reports of the Toronto Blue Jays winning rights to and even signing Yu were, in the words of Mark Twain, greatly exaggerated. … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Right Off the Bat Website
Tagged Literature, Nolan Ryan, Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays, Yu Darvish
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The Doublespin Mechanics of Yu Darvish
Yu Darvish, reportedly signed by the Toronto Blue Jays, brings a whole new pitch to Major League Baseball. It is said to be developed by Japanese scientists. Just between Yu and me, the American League East just got a whole … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball
Tagged American League, Japanese baseball, Major League Baseball, Toronto Blue Jays, Yu Darvish
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Ron Kaplan Follows “Right Off the Bat”
Thank you, Ron Kaplan, for supporting the Right Off the Bat Project! Everyone: Please visit Kaplan’s wonderful Baseball Bookshelf.
New Zealand Beat Australia for the First Time in Twenty Years
In a major upset and in a finish that was the very definition of nail-biting, the underdog New Zealand cricket team has beaten the mighty Australians in a Test match for the first time in twenty years. Doug Bracewell, the … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, New Zealand, Test Cricket
Tagged Brendon Bracewell, David Warner, Nathan Lyon, Ross Taylor
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Watching “Empire of Cricket”
The 2009 BBC production Empire of Cricket is highly (and I, Evander, mean highly) recommended to all baseball fans in the throes of this fallow, no-baseball, hot-stove league/Winter Meetings period. The series is comprised of one-hour episodes devoted to the … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Baseball, Cricket, England, India, Pakistan
Tagged Bodyline, Douglas R. Jardine, Farokh Engineer, Jack Hobbs, Kapil Dev, Pajama Cricket, Sachin Tendulkar, T20, W. G. Grace, Willie Mays
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My Funny Valentine
Bobby Valentine (courtesy of Yahoo sports) can’t wait for the 2012 season. Check out these pearls before reporters from the Winter Meetings: “The new Red Sox manager loves nothing more than folks hanging on his every word, and he basked … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Baseball, Cricket, England, Right Off the Bat Website, Yankees
Tagged Bobby Valentine, Boston Red Sox, Joe Girardi, Literature, New York Yankees
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Jackie Robinson to Be Played by Chadwick Boseman
The film 42 will star up-and-coming Chadwick Boseman in the role of Jackie Robinson. Robinson plays himself opposite Ruby Dee in The Jackie Robinson Story, along with the flamboyant Joel Fluellen. (Dee also stars in the World War II-set The … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Yankees
Tagged Jackie Robinson, Mariano Rivera, New York Yankees, Robinson Cano, Willie Mays
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A Little More on Albert Pujols
Sentimentality aside, one has to ask why the St. Louis Cardinals, whose owners control most of the beer that flows thro the veins of all sports in the United States, would not match the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim offer … Continue reading
Five Things I Learned about Baseball from Ken Burns’s Baseball
I (Martin) just spent 18.5 hours watching Ken Burns’s epic 1994 PBS documentary Baseball—and then I watched the 2010 two-episode sequel. I was delighted to see that Evander and I got the basic information correct in Right Off the Bat. … Continue reading
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