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Vintage[pre1900]baseball to be shown on ESPN Classic...see how the game USED to be played
posted on July 01, 2004 - Go to the detail view for this result
Knockout prose The always excellent Observer Sports Monthly is looking for the top 50 sports books of all time. It gives a some examples of top reads here. What would SpoFiers pick as their top three sports books? After ten seconds' deliberation, for me, it would probably be Fever Pitch (Nick Hornby), Broken Dreams: Vanity, Greed and the Souring of British Football (Tom Bower) and Basil D'Oliveira: Cricket and Conspiracy—The Untold Story (Peter Oborne). Anyone daring to pick David Beckham: My Side - The Autobiography will have their internet connection taken away from them!
posted by Pete at 02:31 PM on January 12
Baseball Hall of Fame nominations Who should be in? And are there any first ballot locks?
posted by jbou at 04:34 PM on November 30
There a lot of snobs in the BWAA who only look at raw numbers unfortunately...I think if you included respect from his peers, Mattingly would make it easily....the writers also tend to forget that Donnie Baseball OWNED the Gold Glove award for first basemen in the 80's..and y eah...Blyleven should be in there too.. (hell KAAT should be also) and Sutter..and Boggs...
posted at 09:17 AM on November 30
The Malice In The Palace What's the answer? Clearly the fans were chiefly culpable, and I for one would be disappointed if this didn't result in the cancellation and forfeiture of at least one Pistons home game.
posted by taupe at 10:44 PM on November 20
The fans coming out on the court/field are always subject to the Mike Curtis Rule....
posted at 09:31 AM on November 20
Who's Slacking in the No-No Department?
Bill James' love letter to Rob Neyer about the most unlikely pitcher to have never thrown a no-hitter.
posted by yerfatma at 08:38 AM on November 12
the actual book that his comes out of is pretty intersting....especially the 'guide to pitchers' that makes up the bulk of the book-a listing of a great deal of the pitchers of any significance in baseball,with a listing of their pitches...interesting because they sneak in a few FICTIONAL pitchers as well..including Sydd Finch and even Charlie Brown..but they forgot...NUKE LALOOSH....
posted at 01:08 PM on November 12
It cost Fox and CBS a combined $8 billion, but the networks are retaining their broadcast rights to Sunday-afternoon NFC and AFC games, respectively, through 2011. DirecTV has also renewed its contract, and retains exclusive rights to the "NFL Sunday Ticket" package. And the rich keep getting richer...
posted by Motown Mike at 10:50 PM on November 09
DON'T be surprised usf- DirecTV is now owned by Murdoch/Fox,so it makes sense.....
posted at 08:23 AM on November 09
BOS-NYY Game 3 thread. Here we go...
posted by lil_brown_bat at 07:11 PM on October 17
Anyone want to argue that this postseason is turning out to be Matsui's coming out party??? Just a feeling that the AL is going to see the REAL Godzilla next year....how does 50 HRs sound? It took all season, but this wrecking crew is finally getting its act together..its just the Sox' misfortune to be in its way..and just think-Sheffield has been doing what hes been doing all year with a bad shoulder..theres been no Giambi...and how much you wanna bet The Boss goes out and snags BELTRAN for a few hundred mil??
posted at 02:57 PM on October 17
"Hey Red Sox ... Who's your daddy?"
posted by justgary at 12:08 AM on October 12
I made a shirt up which has a pic of The Babe with his Sox uniform on,which simply says...'REMEMBER??' Gets Sox fans every time....
posted at 12:01 PM on October 12
The most significant sports-book-to-sports-movie adaptations according to ESPN's Page 2: Friday Night Lights, The Natural, Seabiscuit, Raging Bull, and North Dallas Forty. What do you think? What'd they leave out? [more inside]
posted by kirkaracha at 10:26 PM on October 08
Best sports book never have been made into a movie,and probably never will be....Ball Four.
posted at 08:17 AM on October 08
258! Ichiro breaks Sisler's record of hits in a season.
posted by rocketman at 10:50 PM on October 03
cq.....the so-called 'rabbit ball' of 1920 is nothing but a MYTH....what REALLY happened in 1920 was baseball banning the spitball/emeryball/ greaseball,etc etc...plus after Ray Chapman got killed by a dirty ball,the umps were directed to keep a CLEAN, fresh ball in the game at all times..for a great dissertation on what REALLY happpened during the great hitting explosion of the 20s,seek out a great book by a gentleman named William Curran called Big Sticks from your local library...in it he he gives clear,concise, LOGICAL reasons for why hitting exploded after 1919...not some hoary myth that everyone perpetuates for some reason...
posted at 06:13 AM on October 03
What? no Yankee Red Sox thread? The Sox and Yanks played another classic game tonight. The Yanks won in an extra inning struggle that left the Sox deflated. Is the Sportsguy right, is there something wrong with the Red Sox? Oh yeah, Jeter made a sick play diving into the stands.
posted by jbou at 01:16 AM on July 02
ahhh...86...Dr John....this just shows why Sox fans [and others too] just don't GET IT..its all about the WINNING dammit! Any talented jerk can put up gaudy numbers but it takes something SPECIAL to be a WINNER.....Ill take Jeter ANYday over a guy like Nomar..all these fantasy idiots keep forgetting that THE most important number is that one that appears under the 'W' column in the standings...there is no way that dive/fall into the stands can ever be crunched into a number....but yet it will live longer than any number...The secret to the Yankees is not in all the superstars,cause that sometimes doesnt work...BUT its that Torre gets them to somehow work their butts off..grind the hell out of the other team..sacrifice a few numbers for a win...as Casey would say,EXECUTE...
posted at 09:39 AM on July 02
"Tough Guy" and ... "Tough Guy" and "Ball Stealer" gets his. How a jerk ruined the day and Reggies Sanders, Steve Kline, and a few thousand others saved it.
posted by 86 at 08:41 AM on June 14
Hope that schmuck didnt get ANYthing yesterday...especially from hopefully-soon-to-be-ex- girlfriend/wife....and THANK YOU to both the Cards and Rangers for showing some CLASS....
posted at 08:44 AM on June 14
Softball is not a game with which I am overly familiar - but it is a game that I have been roped into playing tonight for the first time. Any tips?
posted by JJ at 02:26 AM on June 03
as a veteran [13 years!] softball umpire here in the States, I must comment on the 'basic guide' linked - they blew one rule! Unless the rule in the UK is different, the base award on throws going into Dead Ball territory is ALWAYS two bases from from the last base the runner owned at the time of the throw ..this might be THE most misunderstood rule in softball....
posted at 09:55 PM on June 03
Joe Pa will be back for four more years. I'm sure the folks in Happy Valley are loving this decision. Some say he deserves the chance to go out on his own terms because of all that he has done for Penn State, but I say that the times have passed him by and he needs to do what is best for the school he claims to love and not for himself.
I'm sure Joe Pa has a few million stashed away, I'm sure he gets comped everywhere he goes in the state, he should retire and become an "advisor" for the program. Penn State and the kids they recruit don't deserve to be part of his sideshow.
That being said, it is pretty cool to see the old guy still out there calling the shots and yelling at refs.
posted by gilcintron at 12:06 PM on May 18
I wonder how Joe Pa feels about making PS join the Big Ten now? While it was a good move initially [he got to his Rose Bowl...big deal...the BCS has made that a very moot point], its probably hurt their recruiting in their traditional strong areas [the whole Northeast for example...]-while NOT being able to make up for it in traditional BT territories..I bet it has REALLY hurt their 'non money' sports too...the extra travel and travel expenses alone HAVE to hurt sports like volleyball,wrestling,etc- now,instead of a bus ride, all of the road games are PLANE trips...
posted at 08:41 PM on May 18
Break up the Bombers: The ... Break up the Bombers: The Yankees on Trial. ESPN will air it's second mock trial on Thursday, April 8. (The first was last year's trial of Pete Rose.)
posted by goddam at 08:25 PM on April 06
Jersey..where would Sox fans be without the Yankees? You would have nothing to WHINE about....which seems to be the main occupation of Sox fans theses days...
posted at 07:40 AM on April 06
Break up the Bombers: The ... Break up the Bombers: The Yankees on Trial. ESPN will air it's second mock trial on Thursday, April 8. (The first was last year's trial of Pete Rose.)
posted by goddam at 08:25 PM on April 06
And lets not forget that all those cheap owners also share in the mega bucks of all that Yankee merchandise that you see....Yes,MLB DOES have a form of revenue sharing-every team shares equally in the merchandising income from licensing,so teams like the Royals and Twinkies make BIG $$ of off George that way also!As one website [I forget which one] said, lets put SELIG on trial,and see how HE comes out...between his 'blind' ownership of the Brewers,and the DISGRACE of the Expos situation,the disgraceful way umpires are treated, the current situation in baseball is as corrupt as anything since the late 1890's...
posted at 07:36 AM on April 06
Ball Four Almost seems like fiction these days...and surprisingly (or not so) is not as different as this book as you may think: The Glory of Their Times any of Roger Angell's books any book by Robert Creamer the collection of the You Know Me Al stories by Ring Lardner