People still come, Ray
I’ve been to heaven. Twice, in fact. I first learned you could go there on your own time during my junior year of college. A friend of mine from western Illinois, Joe, had a photo of himself with several friends,…
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Listening to history
As I was getting ready to drive into work last night, I got the text alert that Dallas Braden was perfect through six innings. As I waited in traffic heading into the Lincoln Tunnel, it occurred to me that I…
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Baseball dating game
A quick one before I go out to enjoy the beautiful afternoon: A Mr. Met dating story, or not. I like how he pokes holes in the account the way only an insider would know. Pretty interesting.
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Photo Friday: Vintage Spring Training
In some ways, I’m still not caught up from vacation, because I hadn’t intended to skip two slide-show Fridays. The plan was to have this one in the bag for two weeks ago, then resume with the weekly collections the…
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Looking beyond the Verducci Effect
Tom Verducci has unveiled his red-flagged pitchers to watch this season (now with video!) for the dreaded Year-After Effect — or the Verducci Effect, as Will Carroll dubbed it. So watch out, Joba Chamberlain, Josh Johnson, Rick Porcello, Max Scherzer,…
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Little Old New York
The still image above is from a British tourism film about New York City in 1963. Along with scenes from Idlewild (pre-JFK) Airport, Chinatown and the downtown skyline is a segment on Yankee Stadium. The footage was taken on July…
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Willie plays all fields
11:29 p.m. update — The Daily Show interview was great, of course, and Jon Stewart’s New Jersey roots made it unique, when Stewart mentioned Mays’ days with the Trenton Giants in 1950. Back when the Trenton Thunder came along in…
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Dead Ball days
Great stuff here: a montage of black-and-white baseball photographs from the Dead Ball Era, set to the theme from The Natural. You’ll find a couple of pictures of Babe Ruth on the mound for the Red Sox, Ty Cobb at…
