The future of baseball broadcasting; when a baseball does not baseball properly; the hamate bone is rather dumb
Cormac McCarthy authors the NL wild card race; Outside the Lines: Lenny Randle, outside the lines; Keon Broxton and the Art of the Duel
(There’s a baseball in here. Can you find it?) Yesterday in the Texas League, Jordan Cowan of the Arkansas Travelers popped up a fly ball that should have been an easy out for either of the two Corpus Christi Hooks positioned on the left side of the infield. Narrator: it was not an easy out….
Copley’s mind was on his dinner as he watched the couple shepherd their two children down the tree-lined path away from his building. He’d been marinating a steak all day and was planning to grill it in the shared picnic area behind his apartment building, in the last of the good weather before the chill…
Only about 4% of babies born in the U.S. are multiple births, and of that subset of multiple births, 95% are twins. So while twins are rare, among multiple births they are the majority. Triplets, though, are rare however you slice it. That analogues nicely to the game of baseball, where triples are the rarest…
LANCASTER, Pa. — After successfully implementing the automated strike zone, the ability to “steal” first base, and several other rule changes into the Atlantic League, on Wednesday the MLB announced something more ambitious. “We sat down in one of our brainstorming sessions,” said Jason Domo from the MLB Commissioner’s Office, who spoke with us through…
Of the wide band of human emotions, grief is the most elusive, the most chimerical, as distinctive to each person as a fingerprint, as impossible to pin down as rain. In college I had a friend who died suddenly and for months afterward her mother, whom I did not know before the tragedy, emailed me…