Gold Glove, Golden Memories: So long, Brooks
September 27, 2023 by Austin Gisriel · Leave a Comment
I have dreaded this day since I was old enough to truly appreciate the perspective that mortality brings. I just heard that Brooks Robinson has died. It must be true because something is gone inside of me. Maybe the last vestiges of childhood innocence that have hung around for these 66 years. Maybe the ultimate […]
Trevor Bauer, Sam McDowell, and A Rod’s Birthday Cake
August 1, 2019 by Austin Gisriel · Leave a Comment
So, in a fit of anger or frustration or both, Trevor Bauer heaved the baseball over the center field fence. So, what? Sure Bauer should have just handed the ball to his manager, Terry Francona, but it’s not as if he refused to give it to him, and gave him the finger instead. When someone […]
Bill Deane’s Baseball Briefs
May 7, 2013 by Bill Deane · Leave a Comment
Inspired by Bob Davids’s “Baseball Briefs,” since the mid-1980s, I have compiled statistical and other tidbits of each baseball season, usually submitting them to BASEBALL DIGEST. They typically publish some or all of them; my 2012 version (which they coincidentally entitled “Baseball Briefs”) appears in the current May/June issue. Following are those which didn’t make […]
