Tag Archives: Literature

Baseball Nostalgia

Posted on September 17, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

If ever there were a sport to indulge a sense of nostalgia, baseball is it. (Cricket fans: I, Evander, can hear you: What about us? It’s the same impulse of course.) I happen to have a seat bottom from the … Continue reading →

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Two Big Hotstove League Dates in January 2012

Posted on September 15, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

January 2012 has two dates of especial revolutionary significance for all our devoted followers. January 5 is the ninety-second anniversary of the sale of Babe Ruth by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees. It was the birth … Continue reading →

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Congratulations to Mariano Rivera

Posted on September 14, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

Under a Yeatsean full moon, beneath the Rabbit On The Moon (as I have been taught), in Seattle, a franchise against which he first revealed his greatness on a post-Yom Kippur night in October 1995, Mariano Rivera scored the six-hundredth … Continue reading →

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Checking out the Competition

Posted on September 8, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

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 →

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Mets Partnership Talks Collapse

Posted on September 2, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

Hedge-fund mogul David Einhorn, 42, has withdrawn his offer, or had it withdrawn, for a significant minority share in the troubled New York Mets franchise. Although the present blogger, Evander, finds economic issues to be of less interest to our … Continue reading →

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The Man

Posted on August 2, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

I want to thank my writing partner Martin for his dispatch from Finland. I was wondering if he’d give us a Wilsonian allusion: Edmund that is. And he did! . . . Although Martin is The Man, I want to … Continue reading →

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Farewell, Hideki Irabu

Posted on July 29, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

Thanks to my (Evander) good friend Phil (d/b/a Dr. Pizza, Pizza Prima, highly recommended, I’m not just saying that) for sharing a ticket to Hideki Irabu’s first game against the Detroit Tigers in 1997, I got to see the phenom … Continue reading →

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Wooden O

Posted on July 24, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

It is difficult to believe we are well into the second-half of the baseball season. Some of my (Evander’s) earlier predictions look OK. Others look pretty bad. Of course, we have a lot more season to go. Remember: When the … Continue reading →

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All Things Must Pass

Posted on July 17, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

We signed books in Kingston at Half Moon Books as well as Inquiring Minds in New Paltz yesterday, helping (in our small way) to support traditional, fine independent book shops while, at the same time, selling our first Kindle edition … Continue reading →

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You Can’t Count on Anything

Posted on July 3, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

Something new always happens in baseball. I (Evander) don’t know if this is a first, but I cannot remember it happening. (I do remember this oddity: One of former lifetime home-run champion Hank Aaron’s round-trippers [cricket fans: baseballspeak for “home … Continue reading →

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