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All Across the Telegraph His Name It Did Resound
Mariano Rivera mowed down the Minnesota Twins in the ninth inning of a close game, during the heat of a pennant race, thereby becoming the all-time leader in saves in baseball history. He did it at Yankee Stadium and made … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Cricket, Right Off the Bat Website, Yankees
Tagged Arizona Diamondbacks, Bob Feller, Boston Red Sox, Jackie Robinson, John Wettland, Literature, Marco Scutaro, Mariano Rivera, Mark McGwire, Minnesota Twins, New York Mets, New York Yankees, Pedro Martinez, Sachin Tendulkar, Sandy Koufax, Seattle Mariners, Tampa Bay Rays, Ted Williams
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Checking out the Competition
Between Martin and myself, we may have logged sixty years of book-publishing experience. We know our way around the block. Not to be confused with one of those Amazon-obsessed authors, I do admit, from time to time, finding myself sneaking … Continue reading
England Reach Number One
By beating India in the Third Test match at Edgbaston in Birmingham by an astonishing innings and 242 runs, England is now (according to the rankings) the best Test cricket team in the world. It’s a position that England hasn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, England, India, One-Day Cricket, T20 Cricket, Test Cricket, West Indies
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Wood toward the Spherical Object
In considering the superiority of the baseball bat over its cricket counterpart as a means to quell civil unrest (an oxymoron), Exhibit A might be the August 22, 1965, incident involving Hall of Fame San Francisco Giants pitcher Juan Marichal … Continue reading
Baseball versus Cricket: The Weapon of Choice
Slate magazine has run an article that attempts to ask why Londoners have been buying baseball bats in large numbers rather than cricket bats in order to defend their property and threaten some bodily harm to rioters during the recent disturbances. … Continue reading
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Audio Interview with Bruce Berglund of New Books in Sports Now Available
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Cry Havoc and Play Cricket
When the West Indies cricket team toured England in 1976, there was tension on the pitch and riots in the streets. When the Australians visited England for the Ashes series of 1981, England came back from the brink of humiliation … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Test Cricket
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Zimbabwe Returns!
At the turn of the century one of the most formidable cricket teams in the world was from Zimbabwe. The team regularly punched above its weight. Then political turmoil and retirements brought the team low. So low, in fact, that … Continue reading
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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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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Right Off the Bat 