A Baseball with Matt Year in Review

Hey baseball fans!

Happy blog-iversary! Yup, that’s right, folks; today is the one year anniversary of Baseball with Matt. I just want to thank all of my viewers, without whom I would have never gotten to this point.

Anyway, in honor of this special day, I am going to give you all a year in review of my blog. Hope you enjoy.

On 4/2/12, I posted  my first post  about the Dead Ball Era and how  Babe Ruth  changed the game of baseball. It was very meaningful because it was my first actual post. The next post that I really liked was  the one on Harvey Haddix , the guy who lost a perfect game after 12 innings. On May 6th, I posted my  Dream Team , which was very fun to write because a lot of people didn’t exactly agree with my choices. June and July were dominated by the Nickname Survey, in which the ultimate winner was the Sultan of Swat, Babe Ruth (click  here  to see the post in which the winner was announced). Then again, maybe Babe is a nickname of its own. Anyway, the next post that really sticks out is  my first ever interview with a former player  – it was with Red Sox All Star  Fred Lynn . It was really fun writing and I really wanted to continue doing interviews. In fact, here’s a list of all the interviews that I’ve done on the blog this past year:

• Aaron, Hank
• Albert, Kenny  (sportscaster)
• Appel, Marty  (famous sports author and public relations person)
• Attanasio, Mark  (Brewers owner) [Mark was the first owner that I’ve interviewed]
• Berra, Yogi
• Blomberg, Ron  (first DH in baseball history) [Ron was my first ever in person interview]
• Derrington, Jim  (the youngest starting pitcher ever)
• Guidry, Ron
• Idelson, Jeff  (the President of the National Baseball Hall of Fame)
• Jackson, Edwin
• Johnson, Walter  (daughter of)
• Lynn, Fred (great guy, my first interview with a former player)
• Malzone, Frank  (Red Sox great, first Gold Glover at 3B)
• Palmer, Jim  [Jim was my first ever phone interview]
• Robinson, Jackie  (historian of museum)
• Ruth, Babe  (historian of museum acting like the Babe)
• Schilling, Curt
• Slusser, Susan  (sportswriter, first female president of the BBWAA)
• Sprechman, Jordan  (scorekeeper for the Yankees and Mets and first interview ever)
• Thorn, John  (official historian of MLB) [John, by the way, was the person who helped get me set up as a Pro Blogger on MLB.com, so special thanks to John for that]

A fun post that I wrote was  the one about baseball injuries . That was really interesting to research about. I also wrote about  baseball’s weirdest superstitions , something I think we all enjoyed. Five days later, on October 15th, I wrote about who I think would be on  Baseball’s Mount Rushmore , a very controversial post, which made it so fun to write about. On February 3rd, I posted  my top five World Series ever . I just love doing these countdown posts because I get to speak my opinion. February was also really great because I was on TV twice ( first on the Fox 5 News  and then  on the greatest network ever, the MLB Network  (on the MLB Hot Stove show with Greg Amsinger and  Harold Reynolds )).

All in all, it’s been a really great year and I can’t wait for another year of baseball history. It’s going to be a fun year and I hope you are all ready for it. So, thanks for reading this blog, hope you enjoyed it, and check back soon for another edition of “all the buzz on what wuzz.”

Matt Nadel is a 14 year old baseball history kid blogger from Springfield, NJ who writes two baseball blogs under the name, Baseball with Matt.  Matt started  his original blog  back in April 2012 when he saw that a lot of his friends didn’t know anything about baseball history and he thought that a blog would be a fun way to educate kids and adults about baseball history.  After posting nearly 85 times, he was introduced to John Thorn, the official historian for MLB, and John liked Matt’s blog and arranged for Matt to have  his own Pro Blog on MLB , making Matt the youngest Pro blogger on MLB.com. You can also follow Matt on Twitter @BaseballwMatt.  Baseball with Matt is a member of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance.