Harvey vs. Scherzer is Like Deja Vu All Over Again
August 23, 2013 by Mike Lynch · Leave a Comment
Tomorrow’s bout between the New York Mets and Detroit Tigers at Citi Field would most likely be ignored outside of New York and Michigan but for the anticipated match-up of two of the game’s best pitchers—24-year-old phenom Matt Harvey and 28-year-old all-but-guaranteed-to-win-the-AL Cy Young Award, Max Scherzer. Granted the Tigers don’t have anything clinched yet, […]
April 20, 1912: The First Game at Fenway Park
April 19, 2012 by Arne Christensen · Leave a Comment
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park, here is a look at how the Boston Globe of April 21, 1912 described the first game at Fenway, played the day previously. Of course it was a Red Sox-Yankees affair, with perhaps Boston’s best team ever winning 7-6 on a run in the 11th. (The Yankees, […]
Talking Baseball…A Lot of It
July 12, 2011 by Jeff Polman · Leave a Comment
Eric Weiss was in trouble. The “practicing attorney and unapologetic Yankees fan†from Scarsdale was wrapping up a 25-minute seminar called Baseball’s Greatest Postseason Series, when a handful of people in the Pacific Room of the Long Beach Hilton began to squirm. The battle he was recounting was the 1912 Chicago City Series between the […]
Connecticut Smoky Joe Wood SABR Chapter’s 2010 Winter Meeting
February 21, 2010 by Joe Williams · Leave a Comment
On Saturday, February 20, the Connecticut Smoky Joe Wood SABR Chapter held its annual winter meeting. Over thirty Society for American Baseball Research members attended and listened to several great presentations over a five hour period. Norm Hausmann, a new SABR member and a Hartford baseball historian, briefly discussed old Bulkeley Stadium and his mission […]
