{"id":23601,"date":"2013-04-02T16:57:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T23:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seamheads.com\/?p=23601"},"modified":"2013-04-02T16:57:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T23:57:34","slug":"a-baseball-with-matt-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/02\/a-baseball-with-matt-year-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"A Baseball with Matt Year in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey baseball fans!<\/p>\n<p>Happy blog-iversary! Yup, that&#8217;s right, folks; today is the one year anniversary of Baseball with Matt. I just want to thank all of my viewers, without whom I would have never gotten to this point.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-TAtHP-iS62c\/UVojZH5xLJI\/AAAAAAAABJY\/VWHH6S5pPf0\/s1600\/anniv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-TAtHP-iS62c\/UVojZH5xLJI\/AAAAAAAABJY\/VWHH6S5pPf0\/s1600\/anniv.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"248\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Anyway, in honor of this special day, I am going to give you all a year in review of my blog. Hope you enjoy.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-MwGbqXb8Oic\/UVojkMUSW4I\/AAAAAAAABJg\/TcZiO1zJO4I\/s1600\/yr+in+rev.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-MwGbqXb8Oic\/UVojkMUSW4I\/AAAAAAAABJg\/TcZiO1zJO4I\/s1600\/yr+in+rev.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>On 4\/2\/12, I posted&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/first-actual-blog-4212.html\">my first post<\/a>&#160;about the Dead Ball Era and how&#160;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/ruthba01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-www.blogger.com\" target=\"_blank\">Babe Ruth<\/a><\/strong>&#160;changed the game of baseball. It was very meaningful because it was my first actual post. The next post that I really liked was&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/39-up-36-down-and-still-lost-42212.html\">the one on Harvey Haddix<\/a>, the guy who lost a perfect game after 12 innings. On May 6th, I posted my&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/matts-dream-team-52612.html\">Dream Team<\/a>, which was very fun to write because a lot of people didn&#8217;t exactly agree with my choices. June and July were dominated by the Nickname Survey, in which the ultimate winner was the Sultan of Swat, Babe Ruth (click&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2012\/07\/and-winner-is-72912.html\">here<\/a>&#160;to see the post in which the winner was announced). Then again, maybe Babe is a nickname of its own. Anyway, the next post that really sticks out is&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/an-interview-with-fred-lynn-82912.html\">my first ever interview with a former player<\/a>&#160;&#8211; it was with Red Sox All Star&#160;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lynnfr01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-www.blogger.com\" target=\"_blank\">Fred Lynn<\/a><\/strong>. It was really fun writing and I really wanted to continue doing interviews. In fact, here&#8217;s a list of all the interviews that I&#8217;ve done on the blog this past year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/an-interview-with-hank-aaron-92012.html\">Aaron, Hank<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2013\/01\/an-interview-with-quad-caster-kenny.html\">Albert, Kenny<\/a>&#160;(sportscaster)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2013\/03\/an-interview-with-marty-appel-3513.html\">Appel, Marty<\/a>&#160;(famous sports author and public relations person)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2013\/01\/kid-blogger-interviews-brewers-owner.html\">Attanasio, Mark<\/a>&#160;(Brewers owner) [Mark was the first owner that I&#8217;ve interviewed]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/an-interview-with-one-and-only-yogi.html\">Berra, Yogi<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/an-interview-with-first-dh-ever-22813.html\">Blomberg, Ron<\/a>&#160;(first DH in baseball history) [Ron was my first ever in person interview]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2012\/10\/kid-blogger-interviews-youngest.html\">Derrington, Jim<\/a>&#160;(the youngest starting pitcher ever)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/an-interview-with-gator-21013.html\">Guidry, Ron<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2012\/12\/an-interview-with-hall-of-fame.html\">Idelson, Jeff<\/a>&#160;(the President of the National Baseball Hall of Fame)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2013\/01\/an-interview-with-my-first-current.html\">Jackson, Edwin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2012\/10\/an-interview-with-walter-johnson-sort_14.html\">Johnson, Walter<\/a>&#160;(daughter of)<\/li>\n<li>Lynn, Fred (great guy, my first interview with a former player)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2013\/01\/an-interview-with-red-sox-legend-frank.html\">Malzone, Frank&#160;<\/a>(Red Sox great, first Gold Glover at 3B)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/an-interview-with-hall-of-famer-jim.html\">Palmer, Jim<\/a>&#160;[Jim was my first ever phone interview]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2012\/11\/an-interview-with-jackie-robinsons.html\">Robinson, Jackie<\/a>&#160;(historian of museum)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/an-interview-with-babe-ruth-sort-of.html\">Ruth, Babe<\/a>&#160;(historian of museum acting like the Babe)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2013\/01\/an-interview-with-curt-schilling.html?m=0\">Schilling, Curt<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2012\/11\/baseball-with-matt-interviews-first.html\">Slusser, Susan&#160;<\/a>(sportswriter, first female president of the BBWAA)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/an-interview-with-official-scorer-for.html\">Sprechman, Jordan<\/a>&#160;(scorekeeper for the Yankees and Mets and first interview ever)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2012\/12\/an-interview-with-official-historian.html\">Thorn, John<\/a>&#160;(official historian of MLB) [John, by the way, was the person who helped get me set up as a Pro Blogger on MLB.com, so special thanks to John for that]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A fun post that I wrote was&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/serious-baseball-injuries-92312.html\">the one about baseball injuries<\/a>. That was really interesting to research about. I also wrote about&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2012\/10\/baseball-at-its-weirdest-101112.html\">baseball&#8217;s weirdest superstitions<\/a>, something I think we all enjoyed. Five days later, on October 15th, I wrote about who I think would be on&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2012\/10\/baseballs-mount-rushmore-101512.html\">Baseball&#8217;s Mount Rushmore<\/a>, a very controversial post, which made it so fun to write about. On February 3rd, I posted&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/my-top-five-fall-classics-in-mlb.html\">my top five World Series ever<\/a>. I just love doing these countdown posts because I get to speak my opinion. February was also really great because I was on TV twice (<a href=\"http:\/\/baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/my-first-time-on-tv-22013.html\">first on the Fox 5 News<\/a>&#160;and then&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/the-best-day-ever-22613.html\">on the greatest network ever, the MLB Network<\/a>&#160;(on the MLB Hot Stove show with Greg Amsinger and&#160;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/reynoha01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-www.blogger.com\" target=\"_blank\">Harold Reynolds<\/a><\/strong>)).<\/p>\n<p>All in all, it&#8217;s been a really great year and I can&#8217;t wait for another year of baseball history. It&#8217;s going to be a fun year and I hope you are all ready for it. So, thanks for reading this blog, hope you enjoyed it, and check back soon for another edition of &#8220;all the buzz on what wuzz.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Matt Nadel is a 14 year old baseball history kid blogger from Springfield, NJ who writes two baseball blogs under the name, Baseball with Matt. &#160;Matt started&#160;<a title=\"Baseball with Matt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballwithmatt.blogspot.com\/\">his original blog<\/a>&#160;back in April 2012 when he saw that a lot of his friends didn&#8217;t know anything about baseball history and he thought that a blog would be a fun way to educate kids and adults about baseball history. &#160;After posting nearly 85 times, he was introduced to John Thorn, the official historian for MLB, and John liked Matt&#8217;s blog and arranged for Matt to have&#160;<a title=\"Baseball with Matt MLB\" href=\"http:\/\/baseballwmatt.wordpress.com\/\">his own Pro Blog on MLB<\/a>, making Matt the youngest Pro blogger on MLB.com. You can also follow Matt on Twitter @BaseballwMatt. &#160;Baseball with Matt is a member of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey baseball fans! Happy blog-iversary! Yup, that&#8217;s right, folks; today is the one year anniversary of Baseball with Matt. I just want to thank all of my viewers, without whom I would have never gotten to this point. 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