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Cool Old Baseball Headlines: The Beginning
Huzzah, internet! Google used to scan a bunch of old newspapers, and although they stopped doing it, the ones they did before they ceased the scanning are still there. Thus allowing us to see such...
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Red Sox vs. Rays: Saturday Nights Aren’t Right for Fighting
A lot of people read my take on Friday night’s yelling match between the Rays and Red Sox coaching staffs, and how I (along with ESPN’s Buster Olney and Mike Greenberg) thought it wasn’t over. It still...
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Great Baseball Lies: Old replica uniforms with names on the back (and other...
Quick: What’s wrong with the picture below? Okay, how about this? The answer is: Neither of them are correct. In fact, they both have anachronisms in them: the Ruth jersey, for example, has the famous...
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The Players v. Bobby Valentine (AKA The Palace Hotel Mutiny)
Baseball is full of stories of teams that turned on their managers. In the early 1950s, for example, the St. Louis Browns were so happy that Rogers Hornsby had been fired that they gave Bill Veeck a...
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The Black Swan and the Rise of the Dodgers
In my rundown of The Palace Hotel Putsch, I noted that there was one possible outcome that we wouldn’t see coming. Actually, it was a category of possible outcomes: the Black Swan. Here’s what I wrote:...
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ATTENTION: Spring Training games have started
Spring Training games started today as the Red Sox defeated Northeastern University today, 3-0 in a abbreviated game. Jarrod Saltalamacchia had a double, Pedro Ciriaco had an RBI, and Daniel Bard gave...
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Baseball Card Haiku Project #10: 1991 Bowman Danny Darwin
In which I write Haiku-style poetry about a potpourri of baseball cards I found in a value pack. Because, well, it’s my blog. 1991 Bowman Danny Darwin Kneeling on one leg Danny Darwin has a ‘stache...
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Headlines from around the Continuum: October 20, 2013
Baseball-related headlines from the Newseum: Story: Red Sox win Game 6, advance to World Series Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT): A GRAND VICTORY Honolulu Star-Advertiser: VICTORINO GRAND SLAM SENDS...
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The 2013 World Series Preview/Prediction Spectacular
It’s time to preview the 2013 World Series! …After the jump, of course: Hitting: When looking at team statistics as a whole, this seems to favor Boston. Their lineup had a better WAR, scored more runs...
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Game 1 of the World Series summed up in one GIF
It was that kind of night for the St. Louis Cardinals. Look for more tomorrow, including the “Mr. Octobers” of tonight. Spoiler alert: Both of them were members of the Boston Red Sox.
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How Babe Ruth’s trade was reported
It may be premature, but it could be said that the last vestige of the “Curse of the Bambino” is about to fall, as the Boston Red Sox have a chance to win the World Series in Fenway for the first time...
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Headlines from around the Continuum: October 31, 2013
Baseball-related headlines from the Newseum: (Note that I try to copy the style of the paper as well, hence why some are in ALL CAPS while others aren’t. Also, I ignored extremely basic headlines like...
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Baseball Card Haiku Project #15: 1992 Score Ellis Burks
In which I write Haiku-style poetry about a potpourri of baseball cards I found in a value pack. Because, well, it’s my blog. 1992 Score Ellis Burks Ellis Burks played for the Red Sox in Nineteen Nine-...
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How Babe Ruth’s trade was reported (Updated!)
This is an updated version of an article from last fall, now including things from The Sporting News of the era. Thanks to the Society of American Baseball Research (of which I am now a member!) for...
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Best of 2014- How Babe Ruth’s trade was reported (Updated!)
Originally published on July 9, 2014. This is an updated version of an article from last fall, now including things from The Sporting News of the era. Thanks to the Society of American Baseball...
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“30 Teams, 30 Posts”: Happy Evacuation Day, Boston Red Sox (and a look at...
In 30 Teams, 30 Posts, I write a post about every MLB team in some way in the lead-up to the beginning of the 2015 season. Previous installments can be found here. Today, I celebrate Evacuation Day by...
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On the Red Sox-Yankees 19-inning marathon
It’s all my fault. Sometime late in the 6th inning, I wrote this: This may be the fastest moving Sox – Yanks game I’ve ever seen — Dan J. Glickman (@DanJGlickman) April 11, 2015 God, I was so stupid....
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Fenway can survive the Apocalypse: Baseball in the Fallout 4 Trailer
There is a video game series called Fallout. It is a good video game series. It basically takes the idea that all of the 1950s “World of Tomorrow” optimism had happened, but then it got nuked....
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MVP of Yesterday (June 16, 2015): Brock Holt
Brock Holt hit for the cycle yesterday, keying a losing-streak-breaking win for the Red Sox. Standings, as always, after the jump: Standings: Corey Kluber: 3 Josh Collmenter: 2 Bryce Harper: 2 Miguel...
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