Category Archives: Stadiums

A Memoir of Teenage Obsession and Terrible Cricket

Posted on May 14, 2016 by rightoffthebatbook

A mere 48 hours away at this writing is the 75th anniversary of the start of Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak. How the Yankee Clipper came to accomplish it puzzles the will. I have no intention of soliloquizing: What more … Continue reading →

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Cricket Comes to Citi Field

Posted on November 10, 2015 by rightoffthebatbook

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 →

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Great Stadiums (8): Dodger Stadium (Redux)

Posted on August 8, 2015 by rightoffthebatbook

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 →

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Hold the Peanuts and Cracker Jack

Posted on April 29, 2015 by rightoffthebatbook

Back in the day (1955-83) there was a DC Comics series called the Brave and the Bold, which sometimes featured “Strange Sports Stories.” Pictured left is the invisible-cosmic baseball team. But what if a game were played before invisible fans? … Continue reading →

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Crickball

Posted on March 8, 2015 by rightoffthebatbook

The Don. The Babe. South Korea. What do all these have in common? According to the Guardian last year, plenty. Martin and I touch on the two 1930s Cricket-and-Baseball Summits in something of a coda to Right off the Bat—minus … Continue reading →

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Coming up Sixes

Posted on August 23, 2014 by rightoffthebatbook

Today, August 23, 2014, marks the 66th birthday of DH (that’s also Designated Hebrew) Ron Blomberg. Happy Birthday, Ron! This is also the day Joe Torre’s (right: here pictured closer to 1966) number 6 was retired by the New York … Continue reading →

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Citi Field Goes Vegan

Posted on August 19, 2014 by rightoffthebatbook

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 →

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The Three Stooges at the Mets

Posted on August 19, 2014 by rightoffthebatbook

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 →

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Going Multipurpose

Posted on April 22, 2014 by rightoffthebatbook

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 →

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Cricket to Baseball to Cricket

Posted on April 21, 2014 by rightoffthebatbook

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 →

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