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SABR in DC: Day Four
Day Four of the SABR Convention First up: Starbucks. Tea and coffee cake are necessary to get through the morning. Second: Baseball’s Global Trend in Emergence of China (Dominican) Player (Non-)Promotion in the Global Baseball Labor Market Alexander Cartwright — mythologized much? Awards Banquet Talk by an MLB Lawyer Negro League Players Panel The Rise…
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Coming soon…
My photos and write-up of opening day at the new Yankee Stadium. Heading back to Massachusetts, will get the pics uploaded when I get there!
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Tuesday at George M. Steinbrenner Field
It’s the first sign of bad weather we’ve had so far on the trip. Gray clouds and a bare sprinkle of rain. It being St. Patrick’s Day, lots of folks are wearing green. The opponent tonight is the Pirates. This means I just saw a guy dressed as a pirate leprechaun.
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Web site weirdness
Apologies for the duplicate posts. Also, my intention was to post live from the games and then after the game consolidate all the posts into one large readable post and delete all the small one liners. For some reason, my web site is not allowing me to DELETE anything. Strange, no? I won’t be able…
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Web site weirdness
Apologies for the duplicate posts. Also, my intention was to post live from the games and then after the game consolidate all the posts into one large readable post and delete all the small one liners. For some reason, my web site is not allowing me to DELETE anything. Strange, no? I won’t be able…
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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…
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March 13 2008: Live from Tampa
It’s a gorgeous day in Tampa, Florida, today. Sunny and warm and dry, not humid or hot, nor chilly or rainy. And with Spring Training games about half done with, it was a perfect day for some diversion. CRYSTAL CLEAR Much of today’s hullabaloo revolved around Billy Crystal, who lived a dream for his 60th…
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September 26 2005: Go Fish (Wild card/pennant races)
Bob Costas is a smart man, but he was wrong about one thing. When the Wild Card was introduced to baseball, he said it would make down-to-the-wire pennant races like the ones he enjoyed in his youth a thing of the past. Well, try telling that to the Red Sox and Yankees, the Indians and…
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May 5 2000: Summing Up April
Remember the month of April, because come October it will seem so far away. Remember how it was ridiculously cold all over the country, how the Indians sat in their clubhouse three games in a row in Boston, with rain cancellations every day, how the Dodgers/Mets were snowed out. Remember Ken Griffey, Jr. having a…
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February 13, 2000: Born-Again In Baseball – Part Three: The Comeback
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 our limited funds, we ought to take a vacation to New Jersey,…