Elsewhere
March 7, 2010 »
Fantography, a collection of great baseball photographs “taken by fans of the game.”
December 14, 2009 »
Ron Fimrite’s 1974 SI cover story on Hank Aaron, 715 and beyond. And here’s the cover.
December 5, 2009 »
Jon Weisman writes of love, hate and tears.
November 12, 2009 »
Alex Belth collects sportswriting’s best ledes. Catch parts two and three, too.
Dock Ellis and the LSD No-No. Wonderfully animated, and narrated by Ellis himself.
November 7, 2009 »
Patrick Brown on baseball and the Internet.
October 19, 2009 »
October 16, 2009 »
Bronx Banter’s Hank Waddles in conversation with Arnold Hano. Be sure to catch the second part, too.
Gelf Magazine interviews the Sportswriting Machine, Joe Posnanski. Joe reminds me a bit of Roger Ebert, in that both write a huge volume of great stuff each week.
October 12, 2009 »
“The Smartest Man in Baseball Is an Idiot,” who, once again, fell short.
October 7, 2009 »
The game of beep baseball. More here. Looks like great fun.
September 22, 2009 »
Alex Belth’s “Summer in the City.”
September 14, 2009 »
Roger Angell on Derek Jeter. Short, but ever so sweet.
September 9, 2009 »
Ed.—A thing I wrote for Pitchers and Poets: “Shoeless Joe.”
September 1, 2009 »
NY Times: “Adjusting Caps to Fit the Times.”
Joe Posnanski: Watching a game with Bill James.
August 27, 2009 »
SI Vault: The Secret Life of Rocky Perone.
August 24, 2009 »
Steve Aschburner on the Twins’ Target Field.
August 21, 2009 »
Scott Simkus: Josh Gibson’s greatest hits.
August 12, 2009 »
Roger Sheperd: How You Play the Game.
Josh Wilker’s seven steps for attaining baseball happiness.
July 31, 2009 »
Tommy Bennett: “The Staticky Charm of AM Radio.”
July 21, 2009 »
Joe Posnanski, for Cincinnati Magazine: “Pete Rose says he’s sorry. Let him count the ways.”
The Soxaholix: All Bang, No Whimpah.
July 16, 2009 »
From 1991: Alan Richman’s “The Death of Sportswriting.”
July 1, 2009 »
Rich Lederer on what he believes is Vin Scully’s greatest call.
June 29, 2009 »
David Davis on the bible of baseball cards.
June 23, 2009 »
Bruce Markusen on the inaugural Hall of Fame Classic.
My mother gave me a shoebox with a number of old cassette and reel-to-reel audio tapes for Christmas last year. Rich Lederer’s lost tapes.
June 17, 2009 »
SI’s Albert Chen writes of Harvey Haddix and the greatest game ever pitched.
June 12, 2009 »
Larry Tye, author of a new biography of Satchel Paige, on NPR’s Fresh Air.
Eric Nusbaum chats with Glenn Stout about baseball, sportswriting and poetry.
May 20, 2009 »
Jack Kerouac: Literary icon and fantasy baseball player?
Related to the last: An NPR interview with Bobby Scales, the Cubs infielder who spent 11 years in the minors before making his MLB debut this season.
The Chicago Tribune profiles Bobby Scales, the Cubs’ 31-year-old rookie infielder.
May 18, 2009 »
The New York Times: Reflections from Dom DiMaggio on his Often-Overlooked Hitting Streak, as told to Alan Schwarz.
I never came off the disabled list. The story of former catcher John Nathans, injured by Jose Offerman in the infamous 2007 mound-charging incident.
May 11, 2009 »
Bronx Banter contributor Hank Waddles reflects on his Yankee fandom.
Will Leitch: “330 Minutes with Selena Roberts.”
May 8, 2009 »
[Selena] Roberts has written a book about Alex Rodriguez, and it is a journalistic abomination. Murray Chass tears into Roberts’ “A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez.”
May 7, 2009 »
Eric Nusbaum asks: “What Makes a Good Ballpark?”
David Steele: “Press Box Layoff: How the Baltimore Sun Fired Me.”
May 5, 2009 »
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