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Hold the Peanuts and Cracker Jack
Back in the day (1955-83) there was a DC Comics series called the Brave and the Bold, which sometimes featured “Strange Sports Stories.” Pictured left is the invisible-cosmic baseball team. But what if a game were played before invisible fans? … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Stadiums
Tagged Baltimore Orioles, Camden Yards, Chicago White Sox, Major League Baseball
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“Americanizing” the Original Americans thro Baseball
This book tells a harsh story of late-19th-century race and baseball in the U.S. Set at a federally funded boarding school, where indoctrination in what was rapidly becoming the National Pastime would “transform” (read civilize) Native Americans into “Americans,” the … Continue reading
Crickball
The Don. The Babe. South Korea. What do all these have in common? According to the Guardian last year, plenty. Martin and I touch on the two 1930s Cricket-and-Baseball Summits in something of a coda to Right off the Bat—minus … Continue reading
Posted in Bangladesh, Baseball, Cricket, England, Pakistan, Right Off the Bat Book, Sri Lanka, Stadiums, T20 Cricket, West Indies, Yankees
Tagged Arun Panthers, Asiad/Asian Games, Babe Ruth, Bangladesh, Don Bradman, Graeme Swann, Julien Fountain, Lord's Cricket Ground, Major League Baseball, Pakistan, Saeed Ajmal, South Korea, Sri Lanka, T20, United Arab Emirates, West Indies, World Cup, Yankee Stadium
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Little Red Scooter
To Martin’s Broad Agonistes, I note two Major League Baseball parallels: and our Right off the Bat is thus chockablock, many being downright spooky. On the night of May 7, 1957, left-handed ace Herb Score—called by Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Right Off the Bat Book, Right Off the Bat Website, Yankees
Tagged American League, Bob Feller, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians, Gil McDougald, Herb Score, Jack Hamilton, Major League Baseball, Mickey Mantle, National League, New York Mets, Tony Conigliaro, Yogi Berra
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Hat Size: $303K
It was 80 years ago today that MLB taught Japan to play. Well, not exactly. But the 1934 barnstorming tour including the likes of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Jimmie Foxx, did begin a process of popularizing baseball in the … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball
Tagged Babe Ruth, Bob Feller, Eiji Sawamura, Japan, Jimmie Foxx, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Major League Baseball, Ted Williams, Ty Cobb
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Geopolitics Aside
The stunning announcement today concerning the opening of full diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba likely carries large implications for professional baseball, both within these two countries and for the internationalization of the sport (and business) based on … Continue reading
21st-c. Ball and the Fans
Is “the umpire blind”? Herewith the first important reviewable play in 21st-c. MLB, which means in the history of North American baseball and possibly anywhere. The video—available as part of the above link describing the game between two of the … Continue reading
ROTB at the Louisville Slugger Museum
Nathan Stalvy, curator of the Louisville Slugger Museum (maker of the bats for MLB), loves our book!
Posted in Baseball, Miscellaneous
Tagged Louisville Slugger Museum, Major League Baseball
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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
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