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Crickball

Posted on March 8, 2015 by rightoffthebatbook

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 →

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A Great Supporting Player: Misbah-ul-haq

Posted on February 9, 2015 by rightoffthebatbook

Sport, unlike anything else we know, provides us with so many heroes and antiheroes. But there are also character actors—actors that never become the A-list, yet have served their roles with the same or generally a better level of equanimity … Continue reading →

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Watching “Empire of Cricket”

Posted on December 11, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

The 2009 BBC production Empire of Cricket is highly (and I, Evander, mean highly) recommended to all baseball fans in the throes of this fallow, no-baseball, hot-stove league/Winter Meetings period. The series is comprised of one-hour episodes devoted to the … Continue reading →

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What Have I Learned….

Posted on March 4, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

OK, so working on Right Off the Bat (It ought to have an exclamation mark there; we’ll talk to our publisher about it.) was not exactly a return to U of T (University of Toronto, during my year of apostasy … Continue reading →

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