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Baseball Will Never Be the Same
Mark it for all time: August 5, 2013, a date which will live in North American sports infamy. Thirty-eight-year-old Alex Rodriguez has been suspended a whopping 211 games for allegedly using PED. But he is playing and earning his salary … Continue reading
Baseballs for the Longest Day
I (Evander) was treated to a good chunk of the fifth-longest game ever played by the New York Mets. It ran twenty innings as the Miami Marlins scratched out a 2-1 win. The contest lasted almost six-and-a-half hours. Altogether, something … Continue reading
Patel and Singh, and Pray for Rain
Among old-time Braves fans, the saying ran “Spahn and Sain, and pray for rain,” or its variant: “Spahn and Sain, and two days of rain.” The reference is to Warren Spahn—Battle of the Bulge fighting-man, perhaps the most overlooked super … Continue reading
No Door Mat this Moore
I (Evander) am listening to the Yankees broadcast as this unseasonably, downnright cold (at Right Off the Bat HQ) Memorial Day weekend gets off the ground: the unofficial beginning of summer and all the great baseball stuff that goes along … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Right Off the Bat Book
Tagged Babe Ruth, French cricket, Matt Moore, Roger Kahn, Tamp Bay Rays
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Sex
Of course, I (Evander) realize the subject-title line of this blog is sexist and about as un-pc as it gets. If “sex sells” however, I hope these, our congratulations to Hofstra University NCAA Women’s Division I softball pitcher Olivia Galati, … Continue reading
Sinko day mayo 1956
I (Evander) have waxed perhaps not-so-poetic(ly) on May 22 as the upcoming jubilee of the home run Mickey Mantle nearly launched out of old Yankee Stadium. Some estimates have the ball traveling something like 730 feet. More realistically its distance, … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Cricket, Right Off the Bat Book, Right Off the Bat Website, Yankees
Tagged Babe Birrer, Billy Crystal, Billy Martin, Bob Turley, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, Dick Conovan, Don Larsen, doubleheader, Johnny Kucks, Kansas City Athletics, Lou Kretlow, Major League Baseball, Mel Allen, Mickey Mantle, Moe Burtschy, Phil Rizzuto, Triple Crown, World Series, Yankee Stadium
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Take Me out with the Marx Brothers
“Now, Chicolini, I want a full, detailed report of your investigation.” “All-a right! I-a tell you. Monday, we watch Firefly’s house. But he no come out. Tuesday, we go to the ball game. But he fool us—he no show up. … Continue reading
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I Didn’t Know Joe Horlen Is Jewish
Do check out this entertaining 4-minute video on the prideful gathering of signatures from every active or retired Jewish-American Major League Baseball player (and “a couple other” celebrities). (Some in the video have died. The late Norm Sherry [his brother … Continue reading
Great Stadiums (cont’d)
Dharamshala this ain’t. (That blog was posted not only on Shakespeare’s birth and death day, it was posted on the 90th anniversary of the opening of Yankee Stadium.) But the original Yankee Stadium was (James Hilton’s) Shangri-La to baseball-crazed fans … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, India, Right Off the Bat Website, Stadiums, Yankees
Tagged AT&T Park, Bobby Richardson, Camden Yards, Dodger Stadium, Fenway Park, Jerry Coleman, Jim Bouton, Joe Pepitone, Literature, Mickey Mantle, Municipal Stadium Kansas City, Oracle Park, Ron Blomberg, Tony Kubek, Whitey Ford, Wrigley Field, Yankee Stadium, Yogi Berra
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