{"id":206,"date":"2008-02-01T15:14:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T22:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/500000-hits-and-other-good-news\/"},"modified":"2008-02-01T15:14:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T22:14:41","slug":"500000-hits-and-other-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/500000-hits-and-other-good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"500,000 Hits and Other Good News!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to our loyal readers, Seamheads.com recorded its 500,000th hit last month!\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s amazing considering we launched just four months ago.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ve been mentioned on numerous blogs and received a nice boost in traffic when Fox Sports columnist <a href=\"http:\/\/msn.foxsports.com\/writer\/archive?authorId=217\" target=\"_blank\">Dayn Perry<\/a> mentioned us in one of his columns.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ve also received fantastic support from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballthinkfactory.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Baseball Think Factory<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardballtimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Hardball Times <\/a>and we&#8217;ve forged new relationships with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballdigestdaily.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Baseball Digest Daily<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ballhype.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ball Hype<\/a> that should help the overall success of the site.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact after only a day of being tracked by Ball Hype we&#8217;ve almost cracked their top 100 baseball web sites list.\u00c2\u00a0 We also want to thank those of you who&#8217;ve taken the time to compliment our site.\u00c2\u00a0 Your emails and comments are very much appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>As you already know we&#8217;ve added Dave Rouleau to our staff and we&#8217;re excited to have him.\u00c2\u00a0 Our <a href=\"http:\/\/seamheads.com\/db\/quotes\/quotes.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Quotes Database<\/a> now includes 20 players, seven Executives\/Managers\/Front Office Personnel, one team and one quote about Major League Baseball in general.\u00c2\u00a0 That will grow exponentially over the next few weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;re also extremely close to launching our Ballpark Factors Database which is sure to draw a crowd considering the anticipation it drummed up when I first announced it a while back.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, my book, <a href=\"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/harry-frazee-ban-johnson-and-the-feud-that-nearly-destroyed-the-american-league\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Harry Frazee, Ban Johnson and the Feud That Nearly Destroyed the American League<\/em><\/a>, is due out on March 30 and has appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Frazee-Johnson-Nearly-Destroyed-American\/dp\/0786433302\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1201903949&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/booksearch\/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&amp;EAN=9780786433308&amp;itm=3\" target=\"_blank\">Barnes &amp; 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