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June 18 2000: I’m Gonna Wear My Cap, Yankee Fans At Fenway
So here it is, the night before the Yanks start a four game stand at Fenway Park, against the Red Sox, who are ahead of them by half a game in first place in the AL East. And Toronto is only a half a game below them. My team needs picking up. They were swept…
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June 17 2000: Things To Do On A Rainy Day
(This column originally appeared at www.yankeesxtreme.com, Yankees Xtreme. Reproduced by permission of Ultrastar.) So, you may have noticed that the weather this season has been as cold and wet as a Pepsi spilled down your back by the guy behind you in the upper deck. The Yankees postponed their home opener, and all season long…
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June 10 2000: Asleep At The Wheel
So the weirdest thing happened to me today during the ninth inning of Game One of the Yankees/Mets Subway series. I fell asleep. I know, I can’t believe it either. I’m obsessed with baseball, it’s true. Just ask any friend or acquaintance who has had a conversation with me since October. I go around in…
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June 1 2000: Boy, We Picked A Good One! (Pedro vs. Rocket)
Anyone who has watched even a little baseball knows that luck has something to do with it. I don’t mean the “oh, it was lucky the wind blew the ball back” kind of luck–I mean the kind of circumstantial chance that creates great drama. Like the luck of the draw that put Pedro Martinez on…
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May 18 2000: Baseball Time
Time’s an important concept in baseball. There’s no clock running, the games run long or short, the season is long, the post-season is even longer. Baseball has been around for a long time. Injured players spend a set amount of time on the DL, batters call time to throw off a pitcher. It has been…
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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…
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