Willie Davis was before my time. He spent 18 seasons in the major leagues, from 1960 through 1976, with a brief comeback in 1979, so unless he made a cameo appearance in an Angels game I was watching in that latter year — he wasn’t in this Nolan Ryan near no-hitter — I never actually saw him …
At Baseball Prospectus, I’ve got a lengthy take on Nomar Garciaparra’s retirement, placing him in the context of the “Holy Trinity” of shortstops: Back in the mid-1990s, a trio of young shortstops burst onto the American League scene. Soon dubbed the “Holy Trinity,” Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter and Nomar Garciaparra were part of an elite …
Amid all of this recent book promo hubbub, I’ve actually gotten to do some writing: • Last week, I noted the introduction of the ESPN Insider TMI blog. Today I’ve got another piece there, this one on Ozzie Guillen’s stated desire for the 2010 White Sox to be more aggressive on the basepaths. There’s a longer …
It’s been a busy and exhilarating couple of weeks promoting Baseball Prospectus 2010. After a wave of some two dozen radio hits, last weekend my colleagues and I made appearances at the Yogi Berra Museum at Montclair State University in New Jersey and a Barnes and Noble in Manhattan. Sandwiched between those two appearances, I …
… For one of the most memorable moments I’ve experienced in over 30 years as a Dodger fan. I speak, of course, of Garciparra’s 10th-inning walk-off homer off the Padres’ Rudy Seanez on September 18, 2006, capping a miraculous comeback in which four Dodgers — Jeff Kent, J.D. Drew, Russell Martin and Marlon Anderson — hit consecutive …
Behind the subscription wall, our partners at ESPN Insider have launched a new blog called TMI (The Max Info). Baseball Prospectus is contributing to it, as are writers from Fangraphs, Tom Tango from the Inside the Book blog, and folks from within ESPN’s Stats and Info department, a couple of whom I had the pleasure …
The Baseball Prospectus 2010 book promotional tour starts in earnest this weekend. On Sunday, February 28, I’ll join Cliff Corcoran, Steven Goldman, Kevin Goldstein and Christina Kahrl for a panel discussion at the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center at Montclair State University in New Jersey (if you need directions just know that when you …
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The hits to promote the release of Baseball Prospectus 2010 keep coming. Here’s the schedule for the rest of the week: • This evening, I’ll be on Milwaukee’s WAUK 540 AM, the local ESPN affiliate, at 6:40 PM Eastern (5:40 Central), streaming here. • I’ll also be on Seattle’s KRKO 1380 AM at 7:30 PM …
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It’s day three of the Prospectus Radio Blitz, and the hits to promote the release of Baseball Prospectus 2010 keep coming. Here’s Wednesday’s schedule: • Already in the can is a taped interview with Manchester, New Hampshire’s WGIR 610 AM, which will air tomorrow morning, time TBD. • At 4:35 Eastern, I’ll be doing my usual weekly …
More radio hits to promote the release of Baseball Prospectus 2010. Here’s Tuesday’s schedule (all times Eastern): • First up is Salisbury, Maryland’s WOCM-FM at 7:45 AM. Streaming here. • Next is Philadelphia’s WIP 610 AM at 8:05 AM streaming at here. • At 8:45 AM, I’ll taping an interview for “Inside Pitch” on the Cincinnati …