Category: Baseball Musings
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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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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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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…
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Born Again in Baseball: Part Three: The Comeback
(Originally posted February 13, 2000, reposted to new site December 3, 2008) In 1999, corwin and I had been together eight years. Eight years! And now that we’re both in our thirties, we’ve gotten on to a kind of second-childhood kick. (We also took a vacation to Disney World this year.) I decided that, with…
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November 3, 2008: Not So Risky Business
To be fair, we recently mentioned a Derek Jeter interview in SI.com which featured much talk about him playing in an EA Sports Video Game Tournament with Tiger Woods. Well, now Alex Rodriguez is in a commercial for Guitar Hero, with Kobe Bryant, Michael Phelps, and Tony Hawk. Ripping off Tom Cruise, no less. This…
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Born Again in Baseball: Rookie
(Originally posted February 13, 2000, reposted to new site November 1, 2008) So, how did a young fan of Reggie Jackson, the Year of the Comeback, Bucky Dent, Ron Guidry, and Thurman Munson, a woman who still counts among one of the best days of her life witnessing Dave Righetti’s Fourth of July No-Hitter live…
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Offseason Blues
(Originally posted February 13, 2000, reposted to new site November 1, 2008) I never anticipated how difficult the offseason was going to be this year. It’s my first offseason since my return to baseball fanaticism, and I just had no idea it would be this hard to get through the dark months. Oh, sure, in…
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October 31, 2008: News and Notes
Baseball season is really over, and the pickings become slim for us information junkies. I’ll be dong my part this offseason to keep things interesting as I migrate my old posts from ceciliatan.com to the new URL here at Why I Like Baseball. So look for a new posting here every day from the old…