New Baseball Terminology

January 21, 2011 by Austin Gisriel · Leave a Comment

Last week my wife, Martha, and I came across the word atavism and neither of us knew the meaning. I suggested that it meant “possessing the qualities of an ata.” That was wrong. We looked it up and discovered that it actually means “the tendency to revert to ancestral type.” Kind of like what Brady […]

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Cleaning up the Desktop

November 23, 2010 by Josh Deitch · 1 Comment

A rundown of some of the recent goings-on in baseball as soon as they calculate my VoRP. Itâ€™s been over a month since I last filed a piece for Seamheads.Â To answer the question on the minds of all my loyal fansâ€”yes, the three of youâ€”I havenâ€™t posted on Seamheads.com, because I have been serving […]

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