Renowned for his “Pinstriped Bible” column at the YES Network website and for his “You Could Look It Up” column at Baseball Prospectus, Steven Goldman had his first book, Forging Genius: the Making of Casey Stengel, published earlier this year by Potomac Books. While Stengel’s years with the Yankees — during which he won 10 …
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It’s that time of year again, where I’m obsessively keeping track of four different games, and not even travel can tear me away from the action. I spent the past weekend in Washington, DC, but baseball was never far from my field of vision or my consciousness. On Friday night, Andra and I paid a …
In the eight years I’ve been a Yankees partial season ticket holder, going to roughly 10-15 games a year, I can count the number of meaningful (as in pennant-race meaningful) September games I’ve been to on one hand. I generally front-load my ticket requests to go during the warmer weather. By this time on the …
Monday night was a great night for scoreboard watching. I’ve spent the better part of the last three days in front of my computer working on both this week’s Hit List and an my latest piece for the New York Sun, on the Cleveland Indians’ incredible surge, which not so coincidentally has taken them to …
As noted last week, I recently had the great honor of running in the Sausage Race at the Brewers’ Miller Park. My lengthy account of that adventure is running as a guest piece (or “Designated Hitter,’ in the site’s parlance) at the Baseball Analysts website, complete with photos. Thanks to Rich Lederer and Bryan Smith …
Warning: language alert. Feel free to leave if four- and 12-letter curse words frighten you. What can I say? I picked the wrong game. Back in January when my partial season ticket group sat down to pick our games for the year, it figured that I’d choose a game from the September weekend series between …
I’ve often traced my yen to write about baseball back to a pair of dog-eared secondhand books — Roger Angell’s The Summer Game and Jim Bouton’s Ball Four — rescued from a flea market by my grandfather, and by the marvelous yet unrecorded swath of the game’s history he himself witnessed in his 91 years …
In this week’s Hit List, I made note of the fact that Ken Griffey, Jr. had tied Mickey Mantle on the all-time home run list with his 536th dinger on Sunday. Since then, Griffey has missed three games with what’s been reported as both hamstring and foot problems, with one report saying that he had …
The new Prospectus Hit List is up, a day late due to my travel over the Labor Day weekend. Andra and I took a trip to Milwaukee to surprise her parents on the occasion of their 40th wedding anniversary. She and her two brothers planned a weekend that included the whole family going to the …
Thanks to the magic of TiVo, I watched a dandy of a ballgame the other night, the pitchers’ duel between soon-to-be 42-year-old future Hall of Famer Randy Johnson and 19-year-old rookie Felix Hernandez. Brother, that was one game which lived up to the hype. I’d seen Hernandez, the Mariners’ wunderkind, pitch once before, but that …