To The Israeli Baseball Team
This was not even a pipe dream a decade ago. To say that Israel would be among six nations contesting an Olympic medal in baseball would...
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Baseball was, is, and always will be the best game in the world to me.
Babe Ruth
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June 2004 marked the most important inflection point in my life. I attended my first Blue Jays game. They lost but I fell in love for the first time. I threw myself into reading and knowing everything about the game, knowing everything about the game. This blog is a step on what I hope will be a journey towards leaving a lasting impact on the game I love. Whilst at it, I hope to also share interesting inisghts on other sports like hockey or soccer. Here's to hoping that you will join me on the journey.
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Common Fantasy Trade Negotiation Tricks
If you've ever played fantasy sports of some kind, you've probably been hit with your fair share of trade offers from competitors. This...
Major League ... Bitcoin?
A little over a decade ago, a white paper was published by one Satoshi Nakamoto that spanned roughly nine pages. It put forth a new and...
The Stupefying Brilliance of Jacob DeGrom
It is no secret to baseball fans that over the last five seasons or so, the greatest pitcher of this entire superb generation of...
A New Look At Roto Baseball Leagues
Most roto leagues use for scoring the following ten categories: Hitting: AVG, HR, RBI, SB, R Pitching: W, K, ERA , WHIP, SV I will use...
The Level of Excellence: What Now?
One never wants to read such a thing about a childhood hero but such is life. The Toronto Blue Jays announced yesterday the removal of...
A Light Under The Bed
"Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it." - Bill Terry Those who have a working familiarity with Christianity will...
CPBL And English Broadcasts For 2021
As I write this, CPBL spring training is well underway and exhibition games are due to kick off this weekend. It will be an exciting new...
Eddie Gaedel Comes To Bat
Now batting ... pinch hitting for Saucier Number one eighth Eddie ... GAEDEL!!!! "What? Where'd you get this guy?" "Has Veeck lost his...
A Night At Toots Shor
They're filing in The biggest apples in the Big Apple Hitting up the fanciest place in town There's the Mick who swings the big stick...
The Blitz
All the groans have gone silent. No longer are the Blue Jays "finalists" for key pieces. Tyler Chatwood, Kirby Yates, and as I write...
Where The Blue Jays Go From Here
So where do they go from here? An off-season that had promised to be fast-paced and agressive has so far been anything but. The Blue Jays...
Interesting Stat Lines In Baseball History
I don't know about you, but one of my favorite things to do when looking at a baseball card is checking out the stats on the back. Every...
The Taiwanese Adventure of Manny Ramirez
One of the most captivating and polemic characters in the recenet history of baseball descended upon Kaohsiung in the spring of 2013. A...
Playoff Bound! The 2020 Toronto (Buffalo) Blue Jays
They began the season without a home, displaced by a worldwide crisis that nobody in baseball saw coming when Daniel Hudson sealed the...
Team Israel Makes The Olympics: A Year Later
The game of baseball has as its premise a batter starting at home and starting a perilous journey around the bases upon hitting the ball....
An Argentinian Home Run King
Argentina is known for Messi, Maradona, Carlos Gardel, Leo Dan, Tango, mate, ..., having a claim to the homerun leader in a baseball...
The Man of Twelve Tongues
The man of twelve tongues knows it all Only hit .220 but that's also his IQ Caught and threw from spring till fall Then the OSS came...
A Star (of David) Is Born: The Dean Kremer Story
1:05PM on a nice Sunday afternoon in Baltimore. A tall young man with shoulder length hair steps up on the mound at Camden Yards. He...
The Mad Money Around Mike Trout
There is a new gold rush in California. However, unlike in 1849, the gold is not made of gold but rather of plastic and/or cardboard....
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