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The Ol’ Neighborhood Play
The pitcher does a little shuffle: By the time the ball’s released his back foot is ten inches in front of the rubber. The ball whizzing toward the batter is loaded with pine-tar or similar foreign-substance; or the ball’s been … Continue reading
Home-run Boom in June
What gives? Has it something to do with $$$? Yuh think? Elias Sports Bureau registers 1,101 home runs slugged in the two major leagues during June 2017. That tops the one-month record (May 2000) by thirty-two. We at Right off … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Judge, Alex Gordon, All-Star Game, Babe Ruth, exit velocity, Home Run Derby, Kansas City Royals, launch angle, Major League Baseball, Mark McGwire, Mickey Mantle, New York Yankees, Roger Maris, Rookie of the Year Award, Steroids, Yankee Stadium
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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
The Next Commissioner of Baseball
Bud Selig, a most mediocre commissioner—doubling for a spell as an owner—of Major League Baseball (MLB), will step down in early 2015. By meting out a devastating if circumscribed series of suspensions for PED use, especially to Alex Rodriguez (August … Continue reading
Amish Baseball
To the question whether baseball is played in all corners of America, I (Evander) submit this article from the March 22, 2013, issue of the New Republic as a Yes! As the essay notes, whereas TV-viewership has flagged, in part … Continue reading
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Tagged Major League Baseball, San Francisco Giants, Steroids
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Baseball Will Never Be the Same
Mark it for all time: August 5, 2013, a date which will live in North American sports infamy. Thirty-eight-year-old Alex Rodriguez has been suspended a whopping 211 games for allegedly using PED. But he is playing and earning his salary … Continue reading
The Melkman’s Matinee
In a bizarre but hardly surprising twist to his 50-game-suspension tale, the Daily News discloses that erstwhile National League superstar Melky Cabrera had helpers concocting the Internet posting that was meant to keep him out of Dante’s (or Bud Selig’s) … Continue reading
Manny and Ryan
“Don’t do the crime / If you can’t do the time.” The catchphrase may have its beginnings with Robert Blake—who knows something about both, and with some changes sneaks into Bob Dylan’s “Heart of Mine.” More to the point, I … Continue reading
Ryan Braun and FedEx
The man that finished a close second in the National League batting race in 2011 (ever-clever José Reyes of the New York Mets beat him out—by collecting a hit and benching himself on the last day of the season: Reyes … Continue reading
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Tagged Jose Reyes, Major League Baseball, Milwaukee Brewers, National League, New York Mets, Ryan Braun, Steroids, Ted Williams
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