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Dazzy Vance and W. C. Fields
In 1926 W. C. Fields filmed It’s the Old Army Game. The silent—minus shell-game patter (if only via intertitles)—movie has something to do with Florida real-estate scams, including elements Fields would re-create in his masterful It’s a Gift. But Army … Continue reading
Spring Hopes Eternal
The New York Yankees have announced highlights of their spring 2016 schedule, including sixteen games at the pictured venue in Tampa, Florida. As of this writing, we are 96 days from the first reporting by pitchers and catchers, and something … Continue reading
Cricket Comes to Citi Field
Evander and I (Martin) witnessed history on Saturday when we attended the first Cricket All-Stars T20 smackdown in Citi Field, home of the Mets baseball team, in Flushing, New York. The Cricket All-Stars featured a “who’s who” of the world’s … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Cricket, Stadiums, T20 Cricket
Tagged Albert Goodwill Spalding, Allan Donald, Citifield, Courtney Walsh, Curtley Ambrose, Jacques Kallis, Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardene, New York Mets, Ricky Ponting, Sachin Tendulkar, Shane Warne, Shaun Pollock, Shoaib Akhtar, Virender Sehwag
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My Second Love Affair: Baseball
Last night, I (Parth) watched my first baseball game from start to finish. It was the ALCS game six between, and if I may use the term, “my” Toronto Blue Jays and the Kansas City Royals. I knew the basic … Continue reading
Fathers and Sons (and Baseball of Course)
I (Evander) promised myself a few years ago to read more Russian literature. After all, the culture (technically Ukrainian and also probably Lithuanian) represents three-eighths of my heritage. And I remembered Hemingway saying that he fought Ivan Turgenev to a … Continue reading
Priceless
As the 2015 baseball season winds down, with many of the final-season playoff spots secured or all but, the North American Baseball World gathered yesterday in New Jersey to bid farewell to Yogi Berra. They were all there, the ones … Continue reading
Pure Products of America
Babe Ruth and Elvis Presley died the same day: August 16. Think about this. Their deaths occurred fewer than thirty years apart. Each revolutionized and exported American culture while barely stepping foot outside North America. Elvis never performed away from … Continue reading
Great Stadiums (8): Dodger Stadium (Redux)
The Los Angeles Dodgers have been somewhat quietly working on a $100 million upgrade to the 53-year-old stadium, largely considered the Taj Mahal of baseball. Read all about it. For those thinking our sports are about as exciting as watching … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Right Off the Bat Website, Stadiums
Tagged AstroTurf, Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles Dodgers
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The Problem with Flared Skirts
Auntie Beeb has interviewed veteran major-leaguer Mary Pratt of the Rockford Peaches. Never heard of ’em? Did you see A League of Their Own (1992)? The film is based on this all-women’s club from the 1940s, tho in real life … Continue reading
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