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The United States of Jeter
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps. As summer unofficially ends, the 2014 MLB season concluded with a terrific run of postseason playoff games, it seemed the majority of them decided by a run … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Cricket, Right Off the Bat Website, Yankees
Tagged American League, Bruce Bochy, Dave Righetti, Derek Jeter, Joe DiMaggio, Kansas City Royals, Literature, Madison Bumgarner, National League, New York Yankees, Pablo Sandoval, San Francisco Giants, Wild Card, World Series, Yankee Stadium
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A Letter from a Fan
Occasionally, out of the ether, a missive arrives that tells us that our writing hasn’t fallen on deaf ears. We were delighted to receive an email from Parth Taneja, a law student in Washington, D.C. The letter (slightly edited for length … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Cricket, Right Off the Bat Book, Right Off the Bat Podcasts
Tagged Ken Burns
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Is This the End of the West Indies as a Cricketing Entity?
For reasons that were at once predictable and shocking, the past week has seen developments that it’s not being grandiose to say may lead to the end of the West Indies cricket team. In a dispute over money (isn’t it … Continue reading
What the Hell Happened to England?
How about this for an opening sentence, following England’s third defeat in a row to India in their current one-day five-match series? By the end of a game that had all the competitive elements of a day of seal clubbing, there … Continue reading
The Curious Game of Cricket
In a recent New Yorker review of a non-sports film, David Denby, in passing, dismissively refers to “the British and their curious game of cricket.” This mostly baseball fan (Evander) felt a twinge of insult. Perhaps Mr (nota: no period … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Right Off the Bat Website, T20 Cricket
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Cricket in the Movies
For your summer delectation, the Guardian today has selected five movies that feature cricket. As the comments following the article attest, many movies have been missed, but it’s good to see cricket playing some kind of role in the moving pictures.
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The Beards to Be (Not) Feared
The more observant baseball fans among you will know that a lot of store is put in hairiness or the lack of it. The Yankees are notoriously clean shaven; their perennial rivals the Boston Red Sox, by contrast, are riotously hirsute. … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Cricket, England, South Africa
Tagged Brian Wilson, Hashim Amla, Los Angeles Dodgers, Mooen Ali, San Francisco Giants, W. G. Grace
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What the Hell Happened to India?
Reader: Consider two cricket teams—India and England—both alike in dignity. Both sides are in transition: even though their star players may have departed to the skyboxes and commentary positions, both teams are blessed with plenty of youthful talent—to wit, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya … Continue reading
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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