Clearing the Bases: The Clipboard Edition

Clearing out some notes as I breathe a heavy sigh of relief at the passing of my final Fantasy Baseball Index update deadline and sit down to watch the Yankees’ second game of the year — my first chance to see the on my big new TV… • As eager as I always am for …

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The Madness Begins

Most sports fans associate March Madness with the NCAA college basketball tournament, but for me, the month is a crazy one due to the demands of my various writing positions as they pertain to spring training. For the third year in a row, I’m handling Fantasy Baseball Index‘s spring update coverage, delivering camp notes for …

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There’s a Beer Riot Going On (encore)

The following is an encore presentation of one of my favorite FI blog entries, originally posted June 5, 2004 and itself recalling one of my favorite baseball books (thankfully restored to in-print status since the original entry). More beer-soaked linkaliciousness here. • • • Friday marked the 30th anniversary of one of the more colorful …

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Shorted Again [BP Unfiltered]

This ESPN Deportes poll asking readers to choose the greatest Latino shortstop of all time got me to pull out my JAWS spreadsheet. Not surprisingly, the choices ESPN offered — Luis Aparicio, Dave Concepcion, and Omar Vizquel — while fine players, are a not-quite-representative trio that conformed to the image of the light-hitting glove man …

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Vuk (1947-2007) [BP Unfiltered]

The world of futility infielders has lost one of its legendary practitioners in John Vukovich, who passed away this week at age 59. Vukovich, a .161 career hitter, holds a rather dubious distinction, as I wrote at BP Unfiltered, but the 40 years he gave to the game as a player, coach, interim manager and …

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