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Berth Day
Today I plunked down about $3,000 for the full run of postseason tickets at Yankee Stadium. Four seats, eleven games, including game seven of the World Series, should they get that far. I have yet to attend a World Series game in my lifetime, and my fingers, toes, and imaginary appendages are all crossed that…
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The “Softer Side” of Jorge Posada
I got an email this morning with an amusing lead in: “The Yankees had an interesting game last night, but to highlight the ‘softer side’ of Jorge Posada, I wanted to send over some information that may be of interest to some of your readers around Charitybuzz auctions that are ending tomorrow, September 17, 2009…
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Jeter 2,721 – My Dad, 74
Apparently, Derek Jeter got the memo about my dad’s birthday, he just got the details wrong. You see, my father and I (along with my brother and his son Owen–three generations of Tans at one ballgame!) went to the game on Monday at 1pm, Labor Day, to celebrate my dad’s 74th birthday, and also in…
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Jeterian
I like to pretend that I can see into the future, but really I just have to wait until I get there like everyone else. Today I’m wondering if someday people will talk about Derek Jeter the way men of a certain era now talk about Mickey Mantle. You know the ones I mean, guys…
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Almost-September Scoreboard Watching
It has become fun to watch the standings lately. The Yankees have the best record in baseball at 82 wins, and it’s not lost on me that the last time the won the World Series, in 2000, they managed only 87 wins on the season. That was back when the Red Sox front office was…
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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…
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