Today, Deadspin
leaked financial documents detailing the finances of several MLB teams, including a few that are getting revenue sharing money. They show that several of MLB's "poorest" franchises turned a profit due to these cash infusions.
[more inside]
posted by reenum
on Aug 26, 2010 -
56 comments
Chelsea Baker throws like a girl. Of course, she is a 13 year old girl, so that is to be expected. She is a pitcher that went 12-0 with 2 perfect games in the Plant City FL Little League this season. She hasn't been tagged with a loss in 4 years. Her secret is the knuckleball that was taught to her by a former coach, retired MLB pitcher
Joe Niekro.
posted by COD
on Jul 26, 2010 -
142 comments
Last week, before Jack McDonald died, he told his son, Toronto Blue Jays utility infielder John McDonald (14 home runs in a 12 year professional career), to hit a home run for him when he went back to the team. "They're not that easy to hit," John said.
John rejoined his team and got his first at-bat in the ninth inning this past Sunday.
Father's Day.
posted by dirtdirt
on Jun 21, 2010 -
25 comments
Joeurt Puk (aka Joe Cook) is the father of Cambodian baseball. In
this feature by ESPN, Patrick Hruby looks into Cook's background and finds that Cook may not be the tireless philanthropist he claims to be.
[more inside]
posted by reenum
on May 19, 2010 -
6 comments
If you buy it,
people will come. The property from the movie
The Field of Dreams is
for sale. You could own a 193 acre farm, along with a baseball field, and a tourist destination that gets approximately 65,000 visitors annually. The current owners even have permission from Universal to sell memorabilia. Along with ownership of the property comes ownership of the
Field of Dreams site. The asking price is $5.4 million.
via.
posted by bove
on May 14, 2010 -
44 comments
Dallas Braden had a
rough childhood. A problem child in the tough neighborhood of Stockton, California, he was raised by his mother and, after she died, his grandmother, both of whom he credits for turning his life around. Today, on Mother's Day, in front of a small home crowd and his grandmother,
Dallas Braden pitched the 19th perfect game in Major League Baseball history and the second in as many years against the white-hot Tampa Bay Rays. This also happened to be 42 years and 1 day after the A's only other
perfect game, by Catfish Hunter.
[more inside]
posted by dirigibleman
on May 9, 2010 -
47 comments
John Rocker was pretty bad. And their name/uniform/tomahawk chop is considered
offensvie by
some. But before Hank Aaron, or even Babe Ruth hit his 714th home run with the Braves, there was the
miracle team of 1914. Their secret? A lucky (not-at-all-racist)
swastika.
posted by ericbop
on Apr 6, 2010 -
34 comments
When people think of the pitfalls of the baseball draft, it is hard not to remember the story of
Matt Harrington. Harrington was drafted in the first round of the MLB draft by the Rockies and the Padres in successive years, only to go back into the draft after failing to reach an agreement each time. As the years went by, his stock kept falling.
[more inside]
posted by reenum
on Nov 3, 2009 -
50 comments
Why Yankee Stadium sucks: "Its design is profoundly un-American. Baseball has traditionally played a unifying role. The ballpark is where people of different classes and races and religions actually mingled. The box seats, where the swells sat, weren't physically separated from the proles. The new stadium is like an architectural system of class apartheid."
posted by bardic
on Oct 30, 2009 -
89 comments
"I think clearly it's going to be Tuiasosopo today, he's swung the bat well the last few times and he's got an opportunity to play. I expect him to hit his first big league home run today."
Mariners television analyst Mike Blowers makes a goofy pregame prediction...
that comes true.
posted by starman
on Sep 30, 2009 -
50 comments
FreeBaseballRadio.com is a site that was created to help find internet broadcasts of live baseball games. Specifically those that are available for free.
posted by acro
on Aug 6, 2009 -
18 comments
Pitcher Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox
has thrown a
perfect game. A tremendous sporting achievement; this has happened only 19 times in the history of major league baseball. Buehrle is the 17th pitcher in the modern era (since 1900) and the first since Randy Johnson in 2004.
posted by uaudio
on Jul 23, 2009 -
176 comments
