Month: December 2008
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The Strawberry Rocker Soap Opera
(Originally posted on February 25, 2000 and a fascinating look at the news of the day… Reposted on new URL on December 21, 2008.) The news is fairly well-plastered these days with two types of negative articles about baseball. Those about Darryl Strawberry’s relapse into cocaine use, and those on John Rocker’s December Sports Illustrated…
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Waiting For Spring Training…
(Originally posted on February 20, 2000. Reposted to new site on December 19, 2008.) I’ve said before how I “can’t wait” for the season to start. (Or even for Spring training to start!) Going to see games at Spring Training is something that, when I was a kid, I never thought I would get to…
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I Need A Scorecard
(Originally published on February 19, 2000. Reposted to new site on December 18, 2008.) I always liked going to Yankee games as a kid, even if I didn’t really understand what was going on all the time. Being with my Dad, the excitement of the crowd, having a picnic lunch in the stands or getting…
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Baseball Book Recommendations
Today I’ll be reviewing four books out of the many I’ve received this year. Three I’d say would make good holiday gifts, while the last one is more of a book one should read for yourself. The Greatest Game, by Richard Bradley It Takes More Than Balls, by Deidre Silva and Jackie Koney The Spitball…
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Books & More Books
So, I was floating through the blogosphere and came across this list of “Top Ten Greatest Yankee Fan Books” on the Yankzology blog. And my book is, amazingly, at number one. Of course, the book is called “The 50 Greatest Yankee Games,” so maybe having “greatest” in the title skewed the results? I’m still amazed.…
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On Rehab, Injury, and Work
(Originally appeared on February 18, 2000. Reposted at new URL on December 10, 2008.) So, today spring training gets underway in earnest. So many of the articles I’ve been reading have been about the players who have rehabbed from injury or surgery during the winter. Even Cal Ripken! Pitchers galore. And more. I’ve been “recovering”…
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On Stadiums
(Originally posted on February 17, 2000 and re-posted to the new URL on December 10, 2008) I’ve waxed poetic before about Yankee Stadium, and well, I’m about to do it again. Yankee Stadium embodies, for me, the Platonic Ideal stadium. If my baseball history is right, it was the first three tier stadium, as well.…
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On “Diamond Girls:” Female Baseball Fandom
(Originally posted February 16, 2000, reposted to new blog on December 9, 2008) So, I never really thought about the difference between female baseball fans and male baseball fans, until the whole Derek Jeter thing. Let me explain. Growing up as a kid, I was a tomboy, and was always doing this that the “guys”…
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Why I Like The Red Sox (no really!)
(Originally published on February 15, 2000, and reposted to the new blog on December 7, 2008) OK, OK, I’ve talked before about being a Yankee fan in Red Sox Land. It’s tough, let me tell you. I go into the copy shop where I do thousands of dollars in business a year wearing my Yankees…
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Why Baseball is Better than the Movies
(Originally posted on February 14, 2000, reposted to at new site on December 6, 2008) There are a lot of reasons why I like baseball. I’ve already talked about formative experiences of youth, bonding with my father, and so on. But I think there’s more to it than that, and this has to do with…