Once again I’ve retreated to my pal Nick’s folks’ place in Northampton, Massachusetts. Nick’s stepfather is the great-grandson of Harry M. Stevens, the famed sports concessionaire. In honor of the occasion I’m repubilishing a piece I wrote two years ago after rooting through the Stevens-related memorabilia up here. I’ve revised it to include the further …
With the QuesTec computerized evaluation system spending a lot of time in the news the past few weeks, the strike zone has been a hot topic. Mike’s Baseball Rants has an exhaustive archaeological dig through the changing strike zone: So as far as I can tell, the drama that is being played out between owners, …
The Yanks became a part of baseball history in a most undignifed manner on Wednesday night. Not only did they have a no-hitter pitched against them, they had a no-hitter pitched against them by a sextet of Houston Astros hurlers. While four pitchers had combined on a no-hitter before (twice, actually), no team had ever …
Seldom has a single player ruined an entire weekend for me the way Juan Acevedo did this past weekend. Not only did he blow what was potentially Roger Clemens’ 300th win against the Cubs, but he also contributed heavily to their loss the next night via a throwing error and his usual craptacular pitching. Two …
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My mother often chides me about being a pack rat, the kind of person who has a tough time throwing out anything. I’ve got a desk at my parents’ house in Salt Lake City that she’s been ribbing me about cleaning for, oh, about a decade. Fortunately, she knows better than to touch any of …
It’s always nice to get a good laugh over your morning cup of coffee. This morning, Baseball Primer called my attention to a couple of amusing takes on the Sammy Sosa situation that are too good not to pass on. First up is Charles P. Pierce of Slate, who asks, “Is this man a danger …
Yankee fans are still grumbling about the results of their first-ever regular-season foray into Wrigley Field, in which the Cubs took two out of three games on the strength of their fine young pitchers, Kerry Wood and Mark Prior, and plenty of sloppy play from the Yanks. Sunday night’s ballgame started with Andy Pettitte getting …
I’m of two minds about Saturday’s Yankee loss to the Chicago Cubs, in which Roger Clemens left the ballgame with a 1-0 lead en route to what would hopefully be his 300th win. Should the Yankees hang Juan Acevedo in retribution of all of pitches he’s hung to opposing hitters? Or should they choke him …
If you were within a mile of a TV set on Tuesday night, you know that Sammy Sosa was caught using a corked bat in a game against the Devil Rays. Between Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter, ESPN must have run the replay of Sosa’s bat breaking over 200 times between 11 PM and 1 AM, …
I don’t pretend to know a hell of a lot about the Major League Baseball amateur draft, which is happening today. I don’t really follow college baseball, I don’t subscribe to Baseball America, I don’t hang out at the local sandlot looking for the next superstar. And chances are, neither do you, which is one …