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The Tiger Sleeps Tonight
On this date, in 1886…who would have known? The Georgia Peach, still in the top-five career stats for all the big-batting categories in Major League Baseball, was born. (Cobb’s lifetime batting average of .367 [some sources list .366] is one … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball
Tagged Detroit Tigers, Jimmy Austin, Major League Baseball, Philadelphia Athletics, Ty Cobb
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Right Off the Bat, Sir! Right Off the Bat!
One of Alfred Hitchcock’s great films of the 1930s, The Lady Vanishes, significantly involves cricket. Before this year similarly vanishes—along with The Lady—we call your attention to a super deal. “While supplies last,” as the pitchmen (not pitchers) say, our … Continue reading
The Winter of Our (English) Content
For the first time in 28 years, England has managed to win a Test cricket series in India, a task that has eluded many great sides over the years, and which nobody gave this one a prayer of doing when … Continue reading
Not So Super Superstars
They’re overpaid, over the hill, prone to injuries, and move about the infield and outfield with all the grace and speed of arthritic tortoises. They make elementary errors and they’re just not hitting the ball cleanly and racking up the … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Cricket, India, Test Cricket, Yankees
Tagged Alex Rodriguez, Sachin Tendulkar
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Ted Williams: The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived
I (Evander) find myself addicted to old television programs, like the whimsical yet sophisticated “What’s My Line,” which, in the “Mystery Challenger” portions can be found on YouTube by calling up almost any famous person, especially from the entertainment world, … Continue reading
Punter’s Last Pull
Former Australian captain and all-time great Ricky Ponting, a.k.a. “Punter,” has announced his retirement from international cricket, having amassed nearly 27,500 runs and 71 centuries at a very, very healthy average. Ponting was a hard man to warm to: he … Continue reading
Welcome Back, West Indies!
You’d have had to be particularly partisan not to rejoice in the West Indies’ cricket team’s unlikely and much-celebrated victory at this year’s World T20 championship. In the last 25 years of the twentieth century, the West Indies produced some … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, West Indies
Tagged Chris Gayle, Darren Sammy, Marlon Samuels, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Tino Best
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Pup Becomes the Big Dog
One of the reasons why Australia is back in contention as the best Test cricket team in the world is because of their captain, Michael Clarke, who in the match just completed achieved what no other batsmen—even the great Sir … Continue reading
The Delights of the Draw
One of the main complaints cricket lovers receive about their game is how it can go on for five days and yet no-one wins. What’s the point? is the cry. Evander and I talk about this in our book, Right … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, South Africa
Tagged Faf du Plessis, Graeme Smith, Jacques Kallis
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England Trounce India in Mumbai
Having been pummeled in the first Test match in Ahmedabad, England’s cricketers can’t have been too hopeful coming into the second Test match at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. Not only was Kevin Pietersen, England’s most destructive batsman, utterly at sea against … Continue reading
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