Potential MLB Awards Names?

Hey baseball fans! Yesterday, during the pre-game ceremonies of the 87th annual MLB All Star Game, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred officially announced that the AL and NL batting titles have been renamed after Rod Carew and Tony Gwynn, respectively, two of the best hitters in baseball history. This got me thinking: what other awards could […]

The Many Different Nicknames of the Baseball Hall of Fame

Hey baseball fans! One of my favorite things about baseball history is the players’ nicknames. Some are really funny, while some just make no sense. However, there are a few instances among the baseball Hall of Famers where nicknames are either repeated, similar, or contradict each other. Here’s a list of some examples of each: […]

My 400th Post on Baseball with Matt and My 2015 MLB Awards Predictions!!

Hey baseball fans! This is my 400th post on Baseball with Matt! I’m so happy that I’ve done so many fun things in my blogging career and it’s all thanks to you: the viewers. To celebrate number 400, I put up a vlog on YouTube in which I try to predict the eight main MLB […]

My 2015 ALCS, NLCS, and World Series Prediction Video!

Hey baseball fans! The MLB playoffs have just reached the ALCS and NLCS! But who is going to win those series and, ultimately, who is going to win the World Series??!! Well, I believe that I have the right predictions and you can see these predictions in my latest vlog, where I talk about which […]

An Interview with the Incomparable Mike Schmidt!!!!!

Hey baseball fans! Now, as most of you know, my favorite baseball player of all time is Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt, which is why I am absolutely elated to tell you that I just interviewed him! Shoutout to my principal at Golda Och Academy, Mr. Adam Shapiro, for making this possible. Anyway, I can’t produce […]

A Live Interview with Ozzie Smith

Hey baseball fans! The Hall of Fame Classic interviews are still coming your way and this special interview is with MLB Hall of Famer, Ozzie Smith! If you want to learn more about him before you watch the interview, just click here. If you want to watch the interview, click here. And here’s a link to the […]

A Hall of Fame Classic Interview with Robin Yount!

Hey baseball fans! The Hall of Fame Classic has finished and I have so many interviews for you (nine in total)! They will all be posted on YouTube in the next several days. Today’s interview is with a Hall of Famer, the first of four HOF interviews I have. This specific inductee played his entire […]

Teen Kids News — Baseball Facts with Matt

Hey baseball fans! As some of you may know, I’ve been doing a baseball segment for Teen Kids News, a Fox 5 tv show that airs on Saturday mornings at 9:30am in NJ, and at other times around the country. My segment is called Baseball Facts with Matt.  So far, I’ve done twelve segments, each […]

A Perfect Mother’s Day

Hey baseball fans! Happy Mother’s Day! In honor of this special day, I’m going to talk about a very special perfect game that was pitched on, you guessed it, Mother’s Day! Dallas Braden‘s mom, Jodie Atwood, never watched her son play in the MLB, but after she passed away from cancer during Braden’s senior year […]

The Jackie Robinson of the American League

Hey baseball fans! Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier, but he broke the barrier as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers, a National League team. So who was the first African American on an AL team? Well, this Hall of Famer played for the Newark Eagles of the Negro Leagues, missed time due to World […]

The Overlooked Game Seven of the 1986 World Series

Hey baseball fans! So believe it or not, the 1986 World Series didn’t end on Bill Buckner‘s blunder on the Mookie Wilson grounder to first. That walk-off error just tied the ’86 Series between the Mets and Red Sox at three games apiece and considering the World Series is a best-of-seven series, one more game […]

Who Was a Better Hitter: Cobb, Ruth, or Wagner?

Hey baseball fans! There’s a question on my mind that I, for the longest time, was never able to figure out the answer. The question is who is the best hitter from the first Hall of Fame class? In case you don’t know, in 1936, the first three hitters inducted into the Baseball Hall of […]

Why Alan Trammell Belongs in the Hall of Fame

Hey baseball fans! Yesterday was my birthday, so you know what that means: an Alan Trammell post! For those of you who don’t know it, Trammell and I share a birthday (February 21st) and he’s the only person in baseball who I share a birthday with that should be in the Hall of Fame. So, […]

The Buehrle Perfecto

Hey baseball fans! So in my last post, I talked about a catch made by Dewayne Wise that saved Mark Buehrle‘s perfect game. The reason that I bring this up is that, in this post I want to talk about said perfecto and tell you what happened. Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox pitched […]

When Life Gives You A Lemon, You Win A Lot of Games

Hey baseball fans! The baseball season is still a few months away, which puts me in a very sour mood. Speaking of sour, do you know who Bob Lemon is? If not, just read on and find out. Robert Granville Lemon pitched in the MLB from 1946-1958 with the Cleveland Indians. He would have played […]

So, How’s My Book Doing?

Hey baseball fans, As a lot of you know, I’ve written an A-Z baseball history introduction book called Amazing Aaron to Zero Zippers, which is being published by Summer Game Books, and for which Hall of Famer, Jim Palmer, wrote the foreword. I’m donating all of my book proceeds to four baseball-related foundations: ALS, Turn […]

The 300th Post on Baseball with Matt!!!

Hey baseball fans! This is my 300th post on Baseball with Matt! I’m so happy that I’ve done so many fun things in my blogging career and it’s all thanks to you: the viewers. To celebrate number 300, I put up a vlog on YouTube in which I talk about the blog, my book that […]

No One Can Survive Walking the Plank

Hey baseball fans! I’m currently on vacation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania! I was supposed to stop off at Gettysburg, PA for a reennactment of the Battle of Gettysburg that took place during the American Civil War, but the reennactment got cancelled. So, in order to fill that void, I’m going to be talking about a Hall […]

The Toddfather

Hey baseball fans! The Colorado Rockies are a fairly new franchise when it comes to MLB teams, having only started competing during the regular season in 1993. With that being said, there is only one ballplayer who played a mile above sea level who has had his number retired by the Rockies: Todd Helton! In […]

An Interview with a Batman who was also a Penguin: Ron Cey

Hey baseball fans! Who’s ready to read an interview with former Dodgers’ All Star third baseman, Ron Cey? I hope you are, but before you get the chance to read about a member of the 1981 World Series-winning Dodgers, let me tell you a little bit about Cey. Ronald Charles Cey (pronounced like “say”) played […]

The “All-Small Hall” Team Part Four (The Finale)

Hey baseball fans! This is my last post about the “All-Small Hall” team! If you don’t know what the “All-Small Hall” team is, click here for the first post of this series that has an excellent explanation, click here for the second part of the series and click here for the third part. Anyway, it’s time to […]

The “All-Small Hall” Team Part Three

Hey baseball fans! It’s time for the third installment of the series in which I talk about who is on my “All-Small Hall” team! In case you missed the first two posts of this series, click here for part one and click here for part two. Anyway, let’s get on with part three, shall we? […]

The “All-Small Hall” Team Part Two

Hey baseball fans! Today, I’m going to continue where I left off in my last post and talk more about the “All-Small Hall” team. In the last post, I talked about my pitcher and catcher, but now, it’s time to talk about the right side of the infield, the first baseman and second baseman. First Baseman: […]

Introduction to the “All-Small Hall” Team

Hey baseball fans! Over the next couple of weeks, I’m going to tell you about my “All-Small Hall” team. I know what you’re thinking: what in the world is the “All-Small Hall” team? Well, my ASHT consists of players who were small in stature, but very big in terms of their performance. My restrictions on […]

I Didn’t Know That Mites Could Play Baseball

Hey baseball fans! The Chicago White Sox were not the best team in the 1950s, but they did have Hall of Fame shortstop Luis Aparicio. Then again, the ChiSox had another Hall of Fame middle infielder: Nellie Fox! In case you don’t know who he is, let me explain. Jacob Nelson “Nellie” Fox was an […]

The Duke (or El Duque) of New York, Not the Duke of York

Hey baseball fans! The 1998 Yankees are considered one of the best teams of all time, winning 114 games and, eventually, the World Series. They had a great offense, but they also had excellent starting pitching. Guys like Andy Pettitte, David Wells, Hideki Irabu, and David Cone propelled the Yankees to a season for the […]

The Chicken Man Sure Could Hit

Hey baseball fans! One of my favorite things about baseball is the quirky superstitions that some players had. Click here to read my post of some of the greatest baseball superstitions of all time. One of my favorites on that list is Wade Boggs‘ tradition of eating a plate of fried chicken before every game. […]

The Coolest Gerbil That Wasn’t a Pet: Don Zimmer

Hey baseball fans! Recently, former baseball player, manager, and coach, Don Zimmer, passed away. Considering I have never talked about him, here is just a quick biography on Zimmer. So, Donald William “The Gerbil” Zimmer (he was called that because he resembled a gerbil) played in the MLB from 1954-1965 with the Brooklyn/LA Dodgers, the […]

An Interview With Shadow Senator Paul Strauss

Hey baseball fans! I have an interview for you today! It’s with Washington, D.C. Shadow Senator Paul Strauss! I know what you’re thinking: what in the world is a Shadow Senator? Well, the District of Columbia is not a state, but the residents of Washington, D.C. want it to gain Statehood. So, Shadow Senators (of […]

Robin Roberts: I’m Talking About the Pitcher, Not the Newscaster

Hey baseball fans! The Philadelphia Phillies are in last place in the NL East right now, but they don’t have too much to sob about: they have a couple of great stars like Ryan Howard and Chase Utley. This theme of playing badly, but having great players on the roster has been very recurring for […]

Book Review: Rally Caps, Rain Delays and Racing Sausages by Eric Kabakoff

Hey baseball fans! I recently read the book “Rally Caps, Rain Delays and Racing Sausages: A Baseball Fan’s Quest to See the Game from a Seat in Every Ballpark” by Eric Kabakoff and I wanted to share my thoughts with you about it. (Note: I will be referring to the book as RCRD&RCABFQTSTGFASIEB for short.) […]

My Trip to Rogers Centre, Home of the Toronto Blue Jays

Hey baseball fans! I recently went on a vacation with my family to the city of Toronto, Canada. Yes, we went to the CN Tower and Niagara Falls, but my favorite part of the trip was getting to see the Blue Jays play at Rogers Centre against the Cardinals. If you want to see the […]

An Interview with 1988 World Series Champ, Tim Leary

Hey baseball fans! I have another interview for you today! It’s with former pitcher and member of the 1988 World Series-winning Dodgers, Tim Leary. Leary played for the Mets, Dodgers, Yankees, Mariners, Brewers, Rangers, and Reds in a 13-year career from 1981, 1983-1994. He won 78 games and lost 105. Leary’s best year was in […]

NJBM: Hideo Nomo

Hey baseball fans! I just put up my latest post in the Kids’ Hot Korner section of New Jersey Baseball Magazine. This one is about Hideo Nomo, one of the greatest Japanese ballplayers in MLB history. If you want to read more about the man who changed many careers of Japanese baseball players forever, just […]

An Interview with Diamondbacks President and CEO Derrick Hall

Hey baseball fans! I recently had the chance to interview President and CEO of the Arizona Diamondbacks, Derrick Hall! Derrick was a really nice guy and I want to show you what answers he gave in response to my questions. But before I get to that, let me tell you a little bit about Derrick. […]

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