Tue, September 30, 2008
Money for Nothing and Sticks for Free: How Many Outfield Bats is Too Many?
by James Farris
Quick Cuts with Jonathan Eig
by Josh Deitch
Jonathan Eig has written for the Wall Street Journal, Esquire, Men’s Health, and the New Republic. He has taught writing at Columbia College Chicago and lectures at Northwestern University, where he earned his degree in journalism. He has traveled the country fundraising for awareness and treatment of ALS; and in 2005 was the keynote speaker at the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture at the Hall of Fame. In 2005, Eig’s investigation of Lou Gehrig’s battle with ALS, Luckiest Man, became a New York Times best seller and won the Casey Award. Last year, Eig followed that effort by publishing another New York Times best seller, Opening Day, an in depth look at the first major league season of Jackie Robinson. The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Sports Illustrated named it the best baseball book of 2007. Recently, the award-winning author was kind enough to take time from researching his most recent endeavor, Get Capone, to talk with me.
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Fri, September 26, 2008
The Forgotten Slugger
Wed, September 24, 2008
Writers Wanted
by Mike Lynch
We’re always looking for talented writers for our web site, so if you’re interested in joining a passionate and knowledgeable group made up of SABR members (mostly), published authors, Ritter Award winners and nominees, and Yoseloff Grant recipients, let us know.
We’d like to add more writers as soon as we can, so if you love baseball, especially its history, and have a talent and passion for writing, contact Mike Lynch at seamhead@hotmail.com. Experience is not required; a love for The Game is.
Tue, September 23, 2008
Recreating the Holy Grail of the Deadball Era’s Lost Films
by Jim Elfers
Earlier this year Kino released “Reel Baseball” a collection of deadball era films. It is a remarkable collection of shorts and features that were made in the early days of film. However, much more was filmed in the early days of cinema than made it into that collection. What is probably the single most interesting and historically important film of the deadball era is long gone.
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All Good Things…
by Josh Deitch
The movie would have been different. As the clock neared midnight for the life of Yankee Stadium, something within the Yankees would have clicked. It would have started with something small—a Brett Gardner walk-off single, or the benching of Robinson Cano for lackadaisical play—and then would have snowballed into a miracle run.
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Sun, September 21, 2008
Making the Case for Morneau
Two years ago, I wrote about how the MVP is a joke, because it’s come down to nothing but a debate over what the criteria for the award should be.
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Sat, September 20, 2008
J.P. Out At The Ballgame
A “Sporting” Look At The Beginnings of Yankee Stadium
by Brian Joseph
The end of a legacy is near. After Sunday, Chicago’s Wrigley Field and Boston’s Fenway Park will have less company in the discussion of the truly historic stadiums of baseball when Yankee Stadium closes its doors in truly manufactured style — complete with a pre-game announcement of Mariano Rivera the anointed ninth inning pitcher of their final tilt. With two games remaining at the “House That Ruth Built”, it’s time to look back at what was said about Yankee Stadium in The Sporting News from the first story the paper did on the then-future home of the Yankees to the article about the first game in what became the home of the most successful franchise in baseball history.
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