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Today’s Baseball in Tweets
I will be at Yankee Stadium this Saturday and Sunday. I still have two tix for Sunday. Anyone want go? $60 for the pair. txt me 6172909043 # @grazdanny They're totally doing it on purpose! And I thought I was the only one who wrote X-rated stuff as well as baseball… Jeez. # Powered by…
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Extra Innings in Toronto
RT @Ledger_Yankees: CC using Cano's bat in BP. Wants to use bats with hits in them. # Jays catcher John Buck just took a bounced pitch right in the nuts. Broadcasters looked at replay and were silent a long moment… # Then finally Bob Lorenz said, "Well, the video speaks for itself." Flaherty: "Glad I'm…
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Jim Joyce reactions
RT @ed_price: When will Major League Baseball hold umpires accountable? Why can't they be demoted or fired like players, managers or GMs? # RT @BloggingBombers: Wow. The entire press box at Yankee Stadium is howling about the worst call ever made. #
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Vazquez finally wins!
Javy Vazquez inherited the #Yankees curse of low run support from Mike Mussina. #nyy # Orioles elect to pitch to A-Rod in a 1-1 tie with 2 out and men on 2nd & 3rd. Because if they walk him, Cano is next, hottest hitter in AL. # A-Rod is only 1 for 8 off the…
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Yankees at Mets, livetweeted
Yankees at Mets. Beautiful sky over NY. I'm at a bar in Boston drinking beer, Newport Storm rhode island blueberry. Jeter stranded in 1st. # Jeter trouble getting to a grounder and popup, but CC escapes trouble with nice K of Wright and a soft liner to Cano. #nyy # When Santana bats it looks…
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Today’s Baseball in Tweets
*cries* Jorge Posada out for a month with broken foot. meanwhile, Nick Johnson having wrist surgery, Swisher out, Granderson out, who next?? # RT @OzzieGuillen: I'm going to have lunch. I hope they don't poison me ha # Powered by Twitter Tools
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
Writer