Macdonald Lays Down Sacrifice, Everyone Wins

Larry Macdonald, a good friend of mine for the last 10 years or so, and an original member of the Seamheads.com Diamond Kings Baseball League, made a sacrifice for another friend that makes me proud to know him. Macdonald donated a kidney to Jim Rosenbeck, a friend he’d met while playing in the same fantasy […]

The Favorite Toy and the Home Run King

I have a list of articles I intend to write, most about players who toiled long before any of us were a gleam in our parents’ eye (hell, long before our parents were gleams in their parents’ eyes), but sometimes events collide and new ideas crop up and articles seemingly write themselves. With the recent […]

Ted Williams: Part II

I received a lot of feedback about my Ted Williams article in which I opined that Williams was the greatest hitter who ever lived and presented my case by combining Williams’ real stats with five years’ worth of simulated stats that were generated by Micro League Baseball, a computer baseball game that came out in […]

Who, You Ask, is Tiny Bonham?

While watching last night’s game in which the Red Sox copped their second World Series title in four years, Fox flashed a graphic on the screen that showed that Red Sox rookie Jon Lester was only the third pitcher in history to win the clinching game in his first postseason start, the others being W. […]

Touring the Bases with…Jim Bouton

“You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.” Former major league pitcher Jim Bouton ended his controversial book Ball Four with those lines in 1969 and the nation has been in his grip […]

Baseball’s Best: Chapter Five Excerpt Added

Yet another chapter excerpt from Mike Hoban’s book, Baseball’s Best: The TRUE Hall of Famers, has been added to the site.  In Chapter Five, Dr. Hoban asks whether or not it’s fair to use the same criteria to evaluate short but great careers, like that of Jackie Robinson, and longer careers.  He evaluates the careers […]

Baseball’s Best: Chapter Four Excerpt Added

Another chapter excerpt from Mike Hoban’s book, Baseball’s Best: The TRUE Hall of Famers, has been added to the site.  In Chapter Four, Dr. Hoban discusses 38 position players who are in the Hall of Fame and uses his NEWS HOF Monitor scores to determine whether or not they have the numbers worthy of the […]

Your 2007 World Champion Red Sox

About 25 years ago, Bill James introduced a prediction system that picked the World Series winner with 70% accuracy. He wrote about the system for Inside Sports magazine in 1982, then expounded on it in his 1984 Baseball Abstract. He developed the system in 1972 and it accurately predicted the World Series winner at a […]

Out of Left Field: Three Cheers for Joe Torre

I never thought I’d say this about a Yankee, but I love Joe Torre. That’s right, I have a major man crush on the former Yankee skipper after he told George Steinbrenner and his sons, Uday and Qusay, where they could stick their ridiculous contract offer. It wasn’t the amount that was ridiculous—if you’ve been […]

The TRUE Hall of Famers: Excerpts added

As promised I’ve posted chapter excerpts from Dr. Michael Hoban’s book, Baseball’s Best:  The TRUE Hall of Famers.  I’ve also included a list of the 25 best position players and pitchers from the 20th century.  Check it out!

Out of Left Field: ALCS Game 2

While watching last night’s ALCS game between the Red Sox and Indians, I decided to take notes and write down my thoughts as they occurred. Here they are. At the start of the game Joe Buck asserted that Curt Schilling was a Hall of Famer. Schilling doesn’t feel like a Hall of Famer to me, […]

Baseball’s Best: The TRUE Hall of Famers

Seamheads.com is featuring a new book written by Dr. Michael Hoban, a professor emeritus from City University of New York and a longtime SABR member.  Dr. Hoban has used Bill James’ Win Shares system to come up with a new Hall of Fame monitor score in an effort to determine which players truly deserve to […]

Is Boston Really Under More Pressure Than Cleveland?

This morning while driving to work I was listening to ESPN’s Colin Cowherd talk about the upcoming ALCS and he was of the opinion that Cleveland has the edge over Boston because the Red Sox are under more pressure to win, the Indians’ aces are better than Boston’s, and because Cleveland has better middle relief. […]

Dice-K and the Vanishing Strike Zone

Now that the Red Sox have easily dispatched the Angels and we’re all waiting breathlessly for the outcome of the Indians/Yankees series, it’s time to vent my frustration on Daisuke “Dice-K” Matsuzaka and his performance, or lack thereof, in Game 2 of the ALDS (I’ll vent on Eric Gagne another day). Going into the game […]

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