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The Incredible Draw: West Indies v. India—Part II
One of the curiosities of Test cricket (at least to fans of baseball) is the fact that a game of cricket can go on for five days and still end in a situation where no team is declared a winner: … Continue reading
More on the Five-year Labor Deal of Major League Baseball
Daily News columnist Bill Madden points out some of the subterranean and darker (or illumining really) aspects of the recent deal between Major League Baseball (management) and the Players Association, which guarantees uninterrupted baseball thro 2016. These aspects have to … Continue reading
Peace in Our Time
Major League Baseball has a new labor agreement thro December 2016. As part of the deal, players will be tested for Human Growth Hormone and the minimum salary will approach half-a-million dollars a year. There will be no NBA-style season-disruptions … Continue reading
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Tagged American League, Houston Astros, Wild Card
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Congratulations Ryan Braun and Justin Verlander
Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers and Justin Verlander of the Detroit Tigers won the MVP in their respective leagues. Braun beat out Matt Kemp (not to be confused with Shakespearean jig-dancer Will Kempe, who once Boogalooed all the way … Continue reading
Guilty!
It’s a story so big that it’s hard to know, like the blind men touching the proverbial elephant, just how big or even exactly what the story is. Two Pakistan players—Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif—were yesterday found guilty of “spot-fixing” during … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, England, Pakistan, Right Off the Bat Website, Test Cricket
Tagged cheating, corruption, Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Asif, Salman Butt
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Phones in the Dugout, Part 2
Turns out our blogger William Van Ornum was prescient in his recent decoding and deconstruction of bullpen-phone technology. A huge mix-up between baseball genius Tony La Russa and his bullpen coach, due to a supposed telecommunications miscue (in 2011!), helped … Continue reading
The All-important Game 3
I (Evander) have been watching this World Series at a bit of a distance and disadvantage. For Game 2, I was at the year-end (fiscal year begins November 1) board meeting of the foundation I direct when I am not … Continue reading
Remembering Hideki Irabu
The American Mental Health Foundation offers a retrospective look at the suicide of Hideki Irabu.
Yankees Chewed up and Spit out by the Detroit Tigers
Ultimately, Papa Hemingway was right: I (Evander) fear the Tigers of Detroit. In spite of my various conniptions and positions on the sofa last night, radio on and off, TV sound off and on, doing anything short of standing on … Continue reading
Meeting Denny McLain
There were four postseason baseball games on yesterday. But what did I (Evander) do? I shook Denny McLain’s hand. He’s really huge now, and I would not otherwise recognize him. Like all former baseball players, he has an iron grip. … Continue reading
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Tagged Denny McLain, National Baseball Hall of Fame
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