Check Yes or No
January 7, 2011 by Josh Deitch · Leave a Comment
The difficulties sportswriters seem to have with multiple-choice questions after the jump.
The Favorite Toy and…Tony Conigliaro
December 11, 2010 by Mike Lynch · Leave a Comment
Since I went with all-time greats, Babe Ruth and Grover Cleveland Alexander, in my first two articles in this series, I figured I’d shift gears and go with a should-have-been great in Red Sox slugger Tony Conigliaro whose potentially brilliant career was derailed on August 18, 1967 when he was struck in the face by […]
The Curse of the Virtual Bambino
May 4, 2010 by Mike Lynch · Leave a Comment
Even in the world of virtual reality, Babe Ruth is king. It seems that I’m always working on serious research for my next book or article, spending almost all of my free time on it, that I almost forgot what it was like to have fun. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the research/writing process […]
Alabama, the Cradle of Baseball Greatness
December 12, 2009 by Arne Christensen · 3 Comments
A little while ago I started to realize that Alabama has produced some of the greatest players in baseball history. I remembered reading Bill James making a point somewhere in his Historical Baseball Abstract from the ’80s about sports players tending to come from poor areas. I thought about Willie Mays and Hank Aaron, and […]
