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Five Fun Facts about the India versus England Test Cricket Series
1. At one point in the recently concluded second Test match at Trent Bridge in Nottingham the two greatest run-scorers in cricket history were batting together: Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar. Between them they have accumulated 27,386 runs, over 16 … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, England, India, Right Off the Bat Book, Test Cricket
Tagged Graeme Swann, Harbhajan Singh, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Stuart Broad, Tim Bresnan
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More on the National Baseball Hall of Fame Selections
Dave Parker belongs in the Baseball Hall of Fame as much as Jim Rice does. But Parker has never received more than 24 percent of the vote, and is no longer eligible. He and Rice had Most Valuable Player seasons … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Right Off the Bat Website
Tagged Dave Parker, Dave Winfield, Frank Thomas, Jim Rice
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Alex Rodriguez, “You Done It Again!”
The Los Angeles Times and other sources report that Yankees superstar-slugger Alex Rodriguez is implicated in high-stakes poker games. In other words: Gamblers. Gambling is the one unforgivable sin in Major League Baseball. Pete Rose has been banned for life … Continue reading
The Spirit of Cricket
A game of Test cricket can last up to five days. Each of those days is made up of three sessions of two hours each, split by two breaks—the lunch and the tea intervals. On the third day of the … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, England, India
Tagged Eoin Morgan, Ian Bell, M. S. Dhoni, Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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The Man
I want to thank my writing partner Martin for his dispatch from Finland. I was wondering if he’d give us a Wilsonian allusion: Edmund that is. And he did! . . . Although Martin is The Man, I want to … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball
Tagged Hank Aaron, Joe DiMaggio, Literature, Mickey Mantle, St. Louis Cardinals, Stan Musial, Ted Williams, Willie Mays
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From the Finland Station
I (Martin) am in Helsinki at the moment—a place not noted for great interest in either cricket or baseball—but I’m nonetheless well aware that faithful readers will be expecting thoughtful comments on England’s trouncing of India in the Second Test … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, England, India
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Players and Officials We’d Like to See in the Hall of Fame
Here comes a bakers-dozen-plus-one list (additionally, two not quite on the shortlist, but who ought to be considered) of figures I (Evander) would like to see in The National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Let the barroom brawl begin. … Continue reading
Full Extension in Midsummer
I (Evander) just had to share this photo (which can be enlarged by clicking on it) of Daniel Descalso of the Saint Louis Cardinals. Note the gloved ball, though changed frequently in Major League Baseball, is not pristine by any … Continue reading
Farewell, Hideki Irabu
Thanks to my (Evander) good friend Phil (d/b/a Dr. Pizza, Pizza Prima, highly recommended, I’m not just saying that) for sharing a ticket to Hideki Irabu’s first game against the Detroit Tigers in 1997, I got to see the phenom … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Yankees
Tagged Detroit Tigers, Frank Tepedino, Hideki Irabu, Literature, New York Yankees
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England Go One Up
Open the Door, and Let ’em In England have gone one-up in the Test series against India after a comprehensive victory at Lord’s cricket ground last Monday. There’s lots to say about the match itself, and you can read reports … Continue reading
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