6′7″ and the newest pitcher for the Oakland A’s.

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Psst, kids! We’re running out! Great career path…

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Baseball is slowly disappearing from the black community.:
So the major leagues are hoping to reach kids before they decide the sport is fatally uncool. The Compton Youth Baseball Academy in suburban Los Angeles is one such overture, a duplication of the scouting camps found in the Dominican Republic. It offers spring-training-caliber facilities and major league [...]

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Who knew they were this dangerous?

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But they never really came.

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I love stories like this. It made me cry:
In the second game of a doubleheader, WOU’s Sara Tucholsky slammed what appeared to be a three-run homer over the centerfield fence, the senior’s first in either high school or college. But Tucholsky wrenched her knee at first base and collapsed.
Umpires ruled that a pinch-runner could replace [...]

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John Marzano, 45.

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So I’m pushing my shopping cart through the aisles of Kmart, trying to figure out which people I’ve forgotten, when my cell phone rings. It’s Dr. S, and we soon fall into a discussion that veers back and forth between politics and baseball.
“I wonder if it’s really worthwhile moving to Canada,” he says.
“Well, there is [...]

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Somehow, I’m not surprised to find that the Barry Bonds case was driven by someone who some people describe as an “overzealous” IRS agent:
Mr. Rains accused Mr. Novitzky of perjury in two sworn statements at the heart of the Balco case. Mr. Rains wrote that all evidence obtained from Balco and Mr. Anderson’s home [...]

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Jimmy Rollins, MVP.

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Amazing. Something that almost makes me sympathetic to umpires!

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A 113-year old Cubs fan is waiting for them to win another series. Which reminds me of that old Steve Goodman song, “A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request”:
By the shores of old Lake MichiganWhere the hawk wind blows so coldAn old Cub fan lay dyingIn his midnight hour that tolledRound his bed, his friends had [...]

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William Rivers Pitt, Da Man, on why being a liberal is a lot like being a Red Sox fan:
And then, of course, there are the umpires. In baseball they wear blue and there is no appealing their decisions, even when a call is clearly wrong. I remember with writhing specificity the 1999 ALCS between [...]

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