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Yankees Writers Wanted
Yankees Annual Call for Submissions Deadline for pitches: August 15th For the fifth year in a row, I will be editing the Maple Street Press YANKEES ANNUAL. This a pre-season magazine, released at the end of February. Roughly half the content of the magazine is focused on the major league team, while the other half…
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Another Day at the Ballpark
Back at the ballpark. It's ever so slightly cooler than yesterday… Not by much. We got here early today trying to avoid the Dominican Day # Parade, which is on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. Good side effect, great parking and we were early enough to get free umbrellas! # Unlike yesterday when I…
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Yankees vs. KC
It's hot and muggy and beautiful at the Stadium today. The air is redolent with the scent of hot dogs and sausages. And the flags are down. # In windows of shops nearby, signs proclaim RIP Mr. Steinbrenner. Now half hour before gametime, Ed Alstrom plays Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer. # Last night Jorge…
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Today’s Baseball in Tweets
Happy Birthday Derek Jeter. Meanwhile… CC Sabathia is a very large human. 2-1 Yankees going to Mariano time, bottom of 9th. #nyy #yankees # Powered by Twitter Tools
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Today’s Baseball in Tweets
At yankee stadium. Weather beautiful, team playing well… So where is everyone. Tickets were being scalped below face value & seats empty. # RT @ed_price: #Yankees have five six-game winners at 62-game mark for the first time since 1939. # @Ledger_Yankees what do you know about Huffman? I don't remember him from spring training. #…
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Today’s Baseball in Tweets
@alysonfooter Looking forward to following your tweets this weekend during the #yankees series! -Cecilia Tan from Yankees Annual # I will be livetweeting from the #Yankees game today. In the car on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx right now! About to look for parking. # At #Yankees stadium. Didn't manage to quite see the…
Why I Like Baseball
AN ONLINE JOURNAL OF BASEBALL ENTHUSIASM, by CECILIA TAN
Welcome to “Why I Like Baseball”
“Why I Like Baseball” is the one of the oldest baseball blogs on the Internet, dating back to before the word “blog” existed. (I think it’s slightly older than Jay Jaffe’s “Futility Infielder,” and was slightly preceded by Geoff Young’s “Ducksnorts.”) I first hand-coded the site in HTML 1.0 at some point in 1998-99. (Most of the pre-2000 content has been lost to bit rot.) I had been away from baseball for much of my adult life, but the McGwire-Sosa home run race caught my attention I was underemployed at the time, had just published my first book of short stories with a major publisher, and was taking freelance writing gigs as I could find them, but what I really wanted to write about was baseball. So I took it upon myself to create a website. Back then, the Internet was smaller and less populated, and I soon discovered my little passion project was being read by folks like the editors of ESPN: The Magazine, who published a surprise shout-out to me. My writings eventually led to me writing a book on the Yankees, editing the Yankees Annual, writing for Gotham Baseball, and at one point even creating online content directly for the Yankees themselves.
Cecilia Tan
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