Whenever my buddy Neal and I go to a ball game, we always end up having these hilarious conversations about baseball – which turn into hilarious conversations about other things. It’s the same way that Michael Kun and Howard Bloom came up with the idea to write The Baseball Uncyclopedia. Two guys on opposite sides […]

One of the main reasons I love baseball – and reading about baseball – so much, is that there are so many things to write about. The history, the stories, the stats – it’s all there to spend some ink on. And just when I thought I’d pretty much seen it all as far as […]

Do you write letters anymore? I admit, I don’t as much as I should. And when I ask if you write letters – I mean with a pen and paper…not an e-mail. Well, author Seth Swirsky does – and in his book Baseball Letters, he writes to his heroes – ballplayers, some famous, some not […]

With the season in full swing and the draft just completed, I was interested in reading Roy Rowan’s new book – Throwing Bullets. It’s the story of two young pitchers in the Minnesota Twins’ minor league system chasing the dream of making it to the big leagues. From the moment I picked up the book […]

Blunders. What a word – it’s more than a blooper – you know, those clips we see on the big screen at the game of outfielders running through the wall or players running into each other. Bloopers make you laugh. Blunders are much bigger – you almost have to say they’re more thought out. But […]

If you read Moneyball by Michael Lewis – you may initially look at Mychael Urban’s book Aces as either the same book or some kind of argument against the points made in Moneyball. However – it’s really neither. While Moneyball is all about Billy Beane’s philosophy on how to build a baseball team, Aces looks […]