Kid Blogger’s Live Interview with Rollie Fingers
July 19, 2013 by Matt Nadel · Leave a Comment
Hey baseball fans! Here’s the latest in my series of Baseball Hall of Fame Classic live interviews. If you’d like a hint: this pitcher was a three-peat World Series winner and he also won my countdown of the greatest facial hair in the Hall of Fame. If you haven’t guessed who he is, I’m talking about […]
Ebbets Field 100
April 7, 2013 by Terry Keshner · Leave a Comment
The move of the NBA’s Nets this season has allowed fans and journalists to speak a magical word that had disappeared from the lexicon of major sports leagues for more than 50 years: “Brooklyn.” Brooklyn is probably New York City’s most beloved and, possibly, provincial borough and the relocation of the New Jersey Nets to […]
And your 2011 World Series Winner is…
October 17, 2011 by Mike Lynch · 4 Comments
About 30 years ago, Bill James introduced a prediction system that picked the World Series winner with 70% accuracy. He wrote about the system for Inside Sports magazine in 1982, then expounded on it in his 1984 Baseball Abstract. He developed the system in 1972 and it accurately predicted the World Series winner at a […]
Robin White Sox Redux
October 7, 2011 by Terry Keshner · Leave a Comment
On Thursday afternoon I received a text message from my cousin and fellow die-hard White Sox fan, Owen, and it contained just one word: Robin? Naturally, I replied with the first word that came to my mind: Batman? Just kidding. The word I actually replied with was Ventura? As I honestly wondered whether Owen’s single-word […]
Bill James’ World Series Predictor Goes With…
October 26, 2010 by Mike Lynch · 2 Comments
More than 25 years ago, Bill James introduced a prediction system that picked the World Series winner with 70% accuracy. He wrote about the system for Inside Sports magazine in 1982, then expounded on it in his 1984 Baseball Abstract. He developed the system in 1972 and it accurately predicted the World Series winner at […]
