Giants Fever in a Post-2010 World
August 31, 2011 by Jeff Polman · Leave a Comment
I saw my first signs of acute Giants fever in the waning weekends of their 2010 championship year, when the team was in a neck-and-neck battle with San Diego for the NL West title. It wasn’t your standard rising crowd roar that accompanies two-strike counts for the home pitcher late in the game. It wasn’t […]
FEATURES OF THE BALLPARKS DATABASE
March 22, 2011 by Kevin Johnson · 5 Comments
Besides the basic field dimensions and batting event factors, there are some other features of the ballparks database that I’d like to highlight: Starting with the index page, you’ll see that the default order is number of games played in the stadium.  Fenway Park and Wrigley Field are at the top.   This can be an […]
Touring The Bases With…Ken Henderson
July 15, 2010 by Graham Womack · 2 Comments
“The press started to build me up pretty heavily, and the thing that they used to write quite often was that I was the next Willie Mays, which I don’t think was the right thing to do. I don’t care if a player is black or white, it doesn’t make any difference, there was nobody […]
