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Right off the Bat in the Midwest Book Review
Right Off the Bat just got a glowing review in the Midwest Book Review. Here it is: There’s more in common between the sports than swinging sticks at balls. “Right off the Bat!: Baseball, Cricket, Literature, & Life” is an … Continue reading
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Sigh Young
Highly recommended is Hardball Times. It lists almost every stat one could imagine; though missing is the ultra-confusing/sophisticated stat, SIERA. Regardless, it’s time to start putting money down (oops, Judge Landis, don’t look) on our choices for American League 2011 … Continue reading
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Tagged CC Sabathia, Jered Weaver, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Justin Verlander
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England Reach Number One
By beating India in the Third Test match at Edgbaston in Birmingham by an astonishing innings and 242 runs, England is now (according to the rankings) the best Test cricket team in the world. It’s a position that England hasn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, England, India, One-Day Cricket, T20 Cricket, Test Cricket, West Indies
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Wood toward the Spherical Object
In considering the superiority of the baseball bat over its cricket counterpart as a means to quell civil unrest (an oxymoron), Exhibit A might be the August 22, 1965, incident involving Hall of Fame San Francisco Giants pitcher Juan Marichal … Continue reading
Baseball versus Cricket: The Weapon of Choice
Slate magazine has run an article that attempts to ask why Londoners have been buying baseball bats in large numbers rather than cricket bats in order to defend their property and threaten some bodily harm to rioters during the recent disturbances. … Continue reading
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Audio Interview with Bruce Berglund of New Books in Sports Now Available
You can visit the site and listen to our best interview yet, by clicking here.
Cry Havoc and Play Cricket
When the West Indies cricket team toured England in 1976, there was tension on the pitch and riots in the streets. When the Australians visited England for the Ashes series of 1981, England came back from the brink of humiliation … Continue reading
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Pushing Forty
Ichiro Suzuki has been in a season-long slump. Certainly so by his Olympian standards. His current .269 batting average is something like 60 points below his career in North America. He is somewhere around 38. I (Evander) have little doubt, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ichiro Suzuki, Sachin Tendulkar
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Zimbabwe Returns!
At the turn of the century one of the most formidable cricket teams in the world was from Zimbabwe. The team regularly punched above its weight. Then political turmoil and retirements brought the team low. So low, in fact, that … Continue reading
Juan Nicasio and the Dangers of Professional Baseball
This frightening photo from AP shows pitcher Juan Nicasio of the Colorado Rockies after he was beaned by accident versus the Washington Nationals. A line drive off a bat comes at the pitcher probably at 120 miles per hour. The … Continue reading
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