Sun, September 21, 2008
History of the New York Collegiate Baseball League Part I
by Paul Gotham
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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Tue, September 16, 2008
Build It and Will They Come
Sat, September 13, 2008
A View from the Capital
Bad boy behavior disappeared as an issue in Washington with the departure of Jose Guillen whose tempestuous relationship with Frank Robinson and Brad Wilkerson became grounds for divorce in 2006. Guillen is a baseball archetype whose corrosive effects are tolerated only by teams in dire need of the talent they bring. Now GM Jim Bowden–who finds affinity with these players–has brought in Elijah Dukes to fill the role.
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More On Reinventing the Quality Start and How It Looks Historically
by Brian Joseph
On Friday, on MVN Outsider (on a different site), I wrote an article called “Revisiting and reinventing the ‘Quality Start’”. In the article, I took a different approach to the definition of a Quality Start and established new criteria. Since then, after some other discussions, I have revised the criteria, making it a bit easier to follow and also took the data and applied it to historical data using Baseball-Reference’s Play Index to crunch the data from 1956-2008.
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Fri, September 12, 2008
