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Citi Field Goes Vegan
As the previous post suggests, on Friday, August 15th, Evander and I (Martin) took the F Train from the Right Off the Bat Media Complex in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, intercepted the Number 7 train at Roosevelt Avenue, and hightailed it to … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Stadiums
Tagged Chicago Cubs, Jane Austen, Johanna McCloy, Literature, New York Mets, Two Boots Pizza, veganism, Veggie Happy
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The Three Stooges at the Mets
Stuart Cohn (left), a long-suffering Mets fan (is there any other?), Yankees aficionado Evander Lomke (center), and cricket interloper Martin Rowe (right)—the latter two the founders of this self-same blog—in the inevitable selfie at Citi Field on Friday, August 15th. The Metropolitans … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Stadiums, Yankees
Tagged Chicago Cubs, Citifield, Eric Campbell, New York Mets, New York Yankees
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Mike Night for the Ultimate Dodger Dog
L.A. Dodgers-broadcasting legend Vin Scully plans on returning to the mike in 2015. This would be his sixty-sixth straight season with the Dodgers. Robust at eighty-six, Bronx native Scully does things the traditional way—as could only be expected. He solos … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Right Off the Bat Website, Yankees
Tagged Al Downing, Babe Ruth, Chavez Ravine, Clayton Kershaw, designated hitter, Don Larsen, Ebbets Field, Fernando Valenzuela, Hank Aaron, Jackie Robinson, Kirk Gibson, Literature, Orel Hershiser, Sandy Koufax, Vin Scully, World Series
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Baseball Date: July 11, 1914
While most of the West is meditating on the centennial of World War I, I (Evander) have been preoccupied with the upcoming centennial (2015) of W. C. Fields’s entry into the film world. But more relevant than both anniversaries to … Continue reading
21st-c. Ball and the Fans
Is “the umpire blind”? Herewith the first important reviewable play in 21st-c. MLB, which means in the history of North American baseball and possibly anywhere. The video—available as part of the above link describing the game between two of the … Continue reading
ROTB at the Louisville Slugger Museum
Nathan Stalvy, curator of the Louisville Slugger Museum (maker of the bats for MLB), loves our book!
Posted in Baseball, Miscellaneous
Tagged Louisville Slugger Museum, Major League Baseball
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Going Multipurpose
Silly me. I (Evander) thought that the point of the third-generation baseball stadium, with all those great sight lines, was baseball only. How wrong. Whenever money’s involved…. The 2009-occupied Yankee Stadium will host what most of the human race calls … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Right Off the Bat Website, Stadiums, Yankees
Tagged Yankee Stadium
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Cricket to Baseball to Cricket
I (Evander) am not sure how instructive this one-minute time-lapse video is, as officials prepared Down Under (Sydney Cricket Ground) for the 2014 opening day of Major League Baseball. But one does get a relative sense of distance (the boundary, … Continue reading
“Million Dollar Arm”
Last June, ROTB blogged on Rinku Singh (b. 8/8/88!) and Dinesh Patel. Now, the film—from Disney. The Hollywood take, not the Bollywood version. (Though some would persuasively argue that the biggest-and-smartest money lay in cricket—the IPL—on the Indian subcontinent: not … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Cricket, IPL, Right Off the Bat Website
Tagged Dinesh Patel, Major League Baseball, Rinku Singh
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Notes toward a Supreme Fiction: My Sport Could Beat up Your Sport
As this is the 500th blog generated by the Right Off the Bat project, in the spirit of collegial, international, and inter-sport collaboration, we thought we’d put our heads together (ouch) in doing some outside-the-box thinking . . . and … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Cricket, Right Off the Bat Book, T20 Cricket
Tagged Bill James, Johnny Damon, Mickey Mantle, Sabermetrics
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