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Priceless
As the 2015 baseball season winds down, with many of the final-season playoff spots secured or all but, the North American Baseball World gathered yesterday in New Jersey to bid farewell to Yogi Berra. They were all there, the ones … Continue reading
Home-run “Darby”
Although we at the Right Off the Bat Project are hardly enamored of the mere distance baseballs are hit, like anyone else we do sometimes feel that size—as measured by trajectory—matters. April 17 was the sixtieth anniversary ushering in an … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Right Off the Bat Website, Yankees
Tagged American League, Babe Ruth, Bill Dickey, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Kingman, Dick Allen, Frank Howard, Frank Robinson, George Foster, Griffith Stadium, Jimmie Foxx, Josh Hamilton, Literature, Mariano Rivera, Mark McGwire, Mickey Mantle, Reggie Jackson, Ted Williams, Yankee Stadium
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(Im)probabilities
No one is going to confuse Martin and me with Theo Epstein or Bill James. Truthfully, the term Sabermetrics largely gets nary a nod in Right Off the Bat. Why? It all goes back to “leet” childhood. [“Feed-in”]…I remember practically flunking … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Right Off the Bat Book, Right Off the Bat Website
Tagged Bill James, Bobby Thomson, Bucky Dent, contact rate, DIPS, exit velocity, FIELDf/x, ISO, Jackie Robinson, JAWS, launch angle, line-drive rate, Literature, OPS, Reaction Analysis, Reggie Jackson, Sabermetrics, Scoring Efficiency (SE), Scoring Load (SC%), Statcast, Theo Epstein, Ultimate Base Running (UBR), UZR, WAR, WARP, WHIP, Whitey Ford, WRC
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Kung Fu Panda Mauls Tigers
Two big pieces of news come out of last night’s Game 1 of the World Series. First, the Giants’s Pablo Sandoval joins immortals Babe Ruth and Reggie Jackson, and eventual immortal Albert Pujols, as a member of the three-home-run club … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Right Off the Bat Website, Yankees
Tagged Albert Pujols, Alex Avila, Alex Rodriguez, All-Star Game, Babe Ruth, Detroit Tigers, Justin Verlander, Major League Baseball, Miguel Cabrera, Pablo Sandoval, Reggie Jackson, San Francisco Giants, Triple Crown, World Series
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The Unhappy Recap, Part 1
Former Baseball Hall of Fame librarian and researcher Russell Wolinsky is our guest blogger for a special three-part series on “The Dark Years: The Demise of the New York Mets—June 15, 1977, to June 15, 1983.” Please welcome Russell, and … Continue reading
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Tagged American League, Bob Gibson, Bob Murphy, Bowie Kuhn, Bucky Dent, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, Comisky Park, Dave Kingman, Ed Kranepool, Frank Taveras, George Foster, George Steinbrenner, Jane Javvis, Joe Torre, Keith Hernandez, Lee Mazzelli, M. Donald Grant, National Baseball Hall of Fame, National League, New York Mets, New York Yankees, Nolan Ryan, Pete Rose, Philadephia Philies, Ralph Kiner, Reggie Jackson, San Diego Padres, Shea Stadium, St. Louis Cardinals, Steve Carlton, Tom Seaver
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Evander (Not Holyfield) Meets and Greets Baseball Players and Cricket Fans
The scene today was Fairfield, New Jersey, the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Route 46 East. I arrived with my pre-1974 Yankee Stadium seat to add some autographs and to promote Right Off the Bat. The Crowne Plaza was hosting a … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Cricket, England, Right Off the Bat Book, Right Off the Bat Website, Yankees
Tagged Al Kaline, Bill Mazeroski, Bob Turley, Casey Stengel, Darryl Strawberry, Evander Holyfield, Game of the Week, Hector Lopez, Jim Bouton, Jim Leyrtiz, John Wettland, Ken Griffey Sr., Literature, Los Angeles Dodgers, Luis Arroyo, National Baseball Hall of Fame, New York Mets, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Ralph Terry, Reggie Jackson, Rocky Colavito, Tony Kubek, Whitey Ford, Yankee Stadium
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They’d Name a Candy Bar after Me
When Reggie Jackson of the Baltimore Orioles boasted ca. 1976 that “They’d name a candy bar after me if I played in New York” he wasn’t kidding. I (Evander) remember a 1977 Yankee Stadium opening-day field littered with thousands of … Continue reading
Albert Pujols Cements His Reputation
The number-one slugger of the 21st century added three World Series home runs and six runs batted in (RBI) to his astonishing career stats. Only Babe Ruth (two times) and Mr. October. Reggie Jackson, had ever accomplished the feat before. … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Yankees
Tagged Albert Pujols, Babe Ruth, Bobby Richardson, Hideki Matsui, Reggie Jackson, St. Louis Cardinals, Texas Rangers
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The Postseason Aura of Joe DiMaggio
The postseason “success ratio” of Joe DiMaggio is part of his aura. In the days when “postseason” meant only one thing, the World Series, and usually the New York Yankees as part of it, DiMaggio owned October. Although his batting … Continue reading
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Tagged Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, New York Yankees, Reggie Jackson, World Series
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