Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Posted on August 4, 2025 by rightoffthebatbook

400 years ago, New York City was New Amsterdam—outpost of the Dutch West India Company. 100 years ago, Babe Ruth experienced the bellyache heard round the world. It marked a forgettable season with the New York Yankees. That very year, … Continue reading →

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141 or 142 Straight Losses (Depending Who Counts)

Posted on April 10, 2025 by rightoffthebatbook

Hardship found no home at the afternoon doubleheader of April 8, 2025, for both the Yeshiva University Maccabees and the Lehman College Lightning. Lehman, of the City University of New York, broke a 42 (or 41?)-game losing streak with a … Continue reading →

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Deep Dive

Posted on April 1, 2025 by rightoffthebatbook

Torpedo bats are here! Based on innovations by Professor Aaron Leanhardt (“Lenny”), they’re differently configured: more bulk toward the handles, by the labels. The bats are further customized based on the comfort zone of the major-league ballplayer. Or can they … Continue reading →

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High Individual Scores…Are They Good for the Game?

Posted on March 4, 2015 by rightoffthebatbook

West Indies’ cricketer—Mr. Cool himself—Chris Gayle became the first cricketer to score 200 plus runs in a World Cup game. Before this, highest batting scorebelonged to Gary Kirsten, who scored 188 against UAE in the 1996 World Cup. Until 2009, … Continue reading →

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Barbados Bound

Posted on February 8, 2015 by rightoffthebatbook

ROTB co-author, Martin Rowe writes: No trip to Barbados would be complete for the cricket-lover without due homage being made at the storied Kensington Oval in Bridgetown to the great Sir Garfield Sobers, surely the greatest all-round cricketer that the … Continue reading →

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ROTB at the Louisville Slugger Museum

Posted on April 28, 2014 by rightoffthebatbook

Nathan Stalvy, curator of the Louisville Slugger Museum (maker of the bats for MLB), loves our book!  

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Farewell King Kallis

Posted on December 30, 2013 by rightoffthebatbook

First there was Rahul Dravid (in 2012); then there was Ricky Ponting (2012); and then Sachin Tendulkar (2013). Now Jacques Kallis—the greatest all-rounder of his generation—has retired from Test cricket. Tendulkar (15921), Ponting (13378), Kallis (13289), and Dravid (13288)—giants of … Continue reading →

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