As the discussions raged about Joe Torre and Tom Verducci’s The Yankee Years, which came out earlier this year – and I reviewed here – only a few people made reference to this book, which the two put out in April of 1997. The contrasts between the two books are striking – as are the […]

After a monster year in 2008 that earned him a starting spot on the American League All-Star team and MVP consideration, the name Josh Hamilton should be familiar to most baseball fans. By virtue of his on the field success, you’ve likely heard about his off the field battles with an addiction to cocaine and […]

A while back I was talking with Kevin Goldstein from BaseballProspectus.com, and he made the comment that on average, one eventual Hall of Famer debuts each baseball season. That thought has stayed with me in the month or so since I heard it, and it was the thought that kept coming to my mind as […]

While I’ve been a baseball fan pretty much my whole life, it wasn’t until I got involved with the athletic department at the University of San Francisco that I found myself getting into college baseball. College baseball, while from a rules perspective is almost identical to the professional game, is quite a different beast when […]

When I first got into blogging, I read a few books and looked at some websites that offered advice on how to attract readers. One of the most consistent things they all said was to write lists – top 10 lists, favorites lists, least favorites lists, and so on. It gives people something to argue […]

I’ve been a fan of page-a-day calendars for some time; they’re almost as much a part of Christmas-time for me as overpriced Christmas trees, tacky sweaters and teams of high school students at the mall offering to wrap your gifts for a few bucks. I currently have two of these little marvels of daily dispensing […]