Everything connected to baseball is worth something, if you put enough effort into it.
Thank goodness the 2010s are over and done with. Here’s what the last baseball game of the ’20s will look like.
Thank goodness the 2010s are over and done with. Here’s what the last baseball game of the ’20s will look like.
What local radio announcers said during the biggest American League blowouts of 2019.
Now that the empty fanfare and empty calories of Opening Day are behind us, with their paeans to grass and their predictions of who will “be good” and “win the most baseball games,” it’s time to get to the good stuff. And in what is two-thirds of the way toward being a pattern, the folks…
Last week, Ichiro Suzuki played in his 3,604th and final professional baseball game in front of a sold-out Tokyo Dome, accumulating 4,367 hits on his way to a Hall of Fame career. You’re probably somewhat familiar with his work at this point, so rather than try to describe Ichiro, some of the authors at BP…
The staff at BP would like to stop a moment, and give thanks to the game we love.
Tomorrow the Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Dodgers will face off in the 2018 World Series. I find this fitting, because the entire 2018 season is destined to escape my memory, and because I always assume that one or the other played in any series I can’t recall. This may seem unfair to…
Patrick: Comrades, I assemble you once again to fulfill your divine mandate: to assess and rank the aesthetic value of various early nineties baseball cards. Last year, as you may recall, we explored the year 1990, an era of reckless youth and posturing. Moving forward three years, things have changed. Still riding the hobby’s bubble,…
Patrick: Thank you all for convening on such short notice, but we have an important issue to attend to. It seems that one David Bote hit a golden ultimate game-winning walk-off supernatural superserious grand slam and then later apologized for flipping his bat on the play. Before we judge Bote on his individual crimes, however, allow…
Welcome to the second annual Short Relief Memorial Day extravaganza. Last year, we took the holiday as an opportunity to discuss our favorite baseball commercials. This year, our focus moves to the big screen: mostly films, with the occasional television show thrown in. There’s no shortage of material, both published and slurred drunkenly on a…
What baseball would look like if it were modeled after different chess variants.