There Are People Who Confused Things…

June 23, 2012 by Andrés Pascual · 1 Comment

I am one of those who felt (I wrote it in the article concerning the Bonds trial that it was a monstrosity to serve time in jail to any accused for offences arising from the use of steroids. When I read of the dismissal of all charges against Clemens, I felt relieved, because there was […]

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Seamheads.com Boasts Most Comprehensive Ballparks Database on the Internet

February 16, 2011 by Mike Lynch · 4 Comments

We at Seamheads.com are proud to announce the launch of the new Seamheads.com Ballparks Database, created by Seamheads.com co-founder Kevin Johnson and designed for the Internet by Dan Hirsch, fellow Seamhead and founder of TheBaseballGauge.com. This database has been a long time coming and something Kevin and I have wanted to implement since the earliest […]

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Talking With Jack Perconte About Comiskey Park, Municipal Stadium, and the Kingdome

June 30, 2010 by Arne Christensen · Leave a Comment

Last year I looked up the story of the first game at the original Comiskey Park on July 1, 1910. Months later I talked with Jack Perconte about his time playing for the Mariners in the mid-’80s to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Kingdome’s implosion this March. I realized that Jack closed his career […]

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Cards Soar In Foreign Land

June 23, 2010 by Daniel Shoptaw · Leave a Comment

You know, when the discussion of launching pad stadiums comes up, I never think of Toronto’s Rogers Center. Â Wrigley, Coors, even the old Atlanta stadium that started the nickname. Â However, if last night is any indication, Rogers Center is right up there with the rest of them. The Cardinals played the long ball better, smashing […]

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Ballpark Analysis

September 28, 2009 by Kevin Johnson · Leave a Comment

Back in July, we announced the latest and greatest version of the Seamheads Ballpark Database (see: http://seamheads.com/blog/2009/07/02/the-seamheads-ballparks-database-is-here/).Â We also promised we would eventually begin publishing a series of analytical articles that would use the data from the Ballparks Database to investigate various questions, along the lines of what we had previously done in this article […]

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