An interview with the author of Beep: Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind, as well as an excerpt of the very same.
As Patrick Dubuque taught us last week, every man has a breaking point. I’ve seen it many times. Most recently, I saw it this past weekend. What you are witnessing in the above image from Saturday night’s loss to the Twins is Trevor Bauer’s. Slack-jawed, dumbfounded, and perplexed, he is wondering just how in the…
Short Relief is taking the probably necessary measure of keeping a source anonymous as it details its involvement in the longstanding cold war between announcer Mario Impemba and analyst Rod Allen, which boiled over in a physical altercation. The source wished to be identified as an office chair with close ties to the announcing crew….
That’s right, folks, July 31 promises to be a scorcher. Your old standbys (standsby?) like water, lemonade, and sport drinks may not be enough. Try these five under-the-radar options for relief: Saisons – per the Oxford Companion to Beer, the first of the threefold reasons for the existence of saisons is “to refresh the seasonal…
That Pennsylvania has a lot of farms is relatively well known, and in Lancaster County, epicenter of Amish Country and home of rolling green fields and orchards of many scales, agriculture seems to inform everything—even the baseball. The city of Lancaster houses the Lancaster Barnstormers, denizens of the independent Atlantic League and former employer of…
On Friday evening, during a tight game between the Cardinals and the Brewers, a fan crocheted in the stands. The act was, in multiple quarters, erroneously reported as knitting, but knitting uses two needles and crochet a single blunted hook. Much of Friday’s commentary had to do with the idea that if she was crocheting…
Gabe Kapler, Jake Arrieta, and the Phillies might be ready to win ahead of schedule.
The Mystery of The Greatest Baseball Mystery By: Mary Craig Throughout July and August of 1913, the Des Moines Evening Tribune published a serial novella by A.H.C. Mitchell titled “The Triple Tie.” The novel, Mitchell’s second and second-to-last publication, was advertised by the newspaper as the “greatest baseball mystery” ever that would appeal to those…
The Once and Future Series By Holly M. Wendt Unlike the wizard Merlin of Arthurian legend, I was not gifted with the ability foresee the future, nor, as in the iteration of the story reimagined by T. H. White in The Sword in the Stone, with the dubious gift of living backwards through time. White’s…
Short Relief Investigates: Silicon Valley’s Baseball Innovations By: Zack Moser Major League Baseball, looking to appeal to younger audiences, has consulted with top Silicon Valley executives to come up with some ideas to inject new life into the National Pastime. Short Relief’s investigative team has uncovered a partial list of these recent and prospective innovations,…
A Man and His Bat By: James Fegan Going viral on Twitter is like the full arc of becoming popular in high school, boiled down to an 18-hour experience. The first hour is the rush of a new level of attention and the next 17 hours are revulsion at the wave of unwanted input from…
Disrespect By: James Fegan A crime has to have a victim. Otherwise, it is probably just hating. Are you a hater? Let’s not consider it. Yasiel Puig’s bat-flips have become a topic of debate because 1) we have to try force conversation about the paltry one or two games we can watch all day and…
Today’s selection: Authors, animals, and artifice.
Two pieces on embarrassment, in a way, and one on the cold at the end of the year. None of it is real.
Baseball is both of the stars and on the ground, frequently at the same time; within lies the truth.