If you’ve followed my posts on my other site, BaseballOnMyBrain.com, you know that I often talk about how to watch the game and that a baseball game is so much more than just an isolated incident, but rather compares to an episode of a soap opera, drawing on things that happened not just yesterday but […]

Robert Elias provides a poignant and pointed look at how baseball has been used to spread the will and interests of the United States around the world. A thorough book that will be tough to swallow for the flag-waving fan, it is a needed and welcomed critical look at these partners in Americanizing the globe.

While the hot stove is cooling off as we near the start of spring training, there’s still the occasional murmur of a trade here and there that might swap present, future and/or former stars for one another. The merits of trades are instantly put through the ringer by bloggers, pundits and the casual fan, and […]

To provide a new outlook on an event over 50 years since it happened is no small task — and when it’s finished, it had better be pretty darn good. Almost perfect, some might say. Lew Paper takes on the task of Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 World Series, what many consider to […]

P.J. Dragseth compiles the thoughts and recollections from 19 veteran professional baseball scouts. Does he turn it into a book worth reading? Find out in my review of Eye for Talent.

The easiest way to spark a debate amongst sports fans? Come up with a list about something – Top 10 athletes, moments, boneheads, whatever – and then tell everybody about it while declaring your list the definitive, infallible authority on the subject. A simple premise, and one that gets repeated time and time again, including […]