Elsewhere: April 2009
April 29, 2009 »
ESPN.com’s Mike Fish on the post-MLB life of Lenny Dykstra. See also: In the New Yorker, “Nails Never Fails.”
Alex Belth, reporting from New York: “A Tale of Two New Stadiums.”
April 28, 2009 »
The Herald-Tribune’s Chris Anderson remembers the “no-hitter streak few noticed.”
A Florida teen tries for his fifth straight no-hitter.
April 27, 2009 »
“When It Was a Game”: The early days of fantasy baseball.
Josh Wilker of Cardboard Gods was profiled last week in the Chicago Sun-Times.
April 21, 2009 »
The stirrup, however, ain’t dead yet. WSJ: “Sultans of Sock.”
Sophia Hollander writes of baseball in New York and her father.
Ed.: Welcome him aboard for me, Craig. Calcaterra: “Carlo and the Caps.”
April 20, 2009 »
Rich Lederer: “How I Ruined My Ted Williams and Mickey Mantle Autographed Baseball.”
April 17, 2009 »
Also in SI: Do I want to do this? Do I want to put my life out there? “Hit in the Head,” by S.L. Price.
SI’s Lee Jenkins on Nick Adenhart.
Posnanski on his new favorite Royal.
April 15, 2009 »
Most of the time fans are a giant annoyance to scouts. The diary of a professional scout.
April 14, 2009 »
Joe Posnanski: “For all his oddities, Fidrych was an overgrown kid living the dream.”
Phillies Nation’s tribute to Harry Kalas. Also: Thoughts from Beerleaguer and The Good Phight.
Bless You Boys rounds up memories of Mark Fidrych.
Craig Calcaterra’s night at the movies.
April 13, 2009 »
Josh Wilker on Fidrych’s death. Fidrych was featured in Wilker’s first Cardboard Gods entry.
A sad week for baseball: Mark Fidrych has also passed. He was 54.
Harry Kalas, the Phillies’ Hall of Fame announcer, has passed away at 73.
“I live in a ghost town.” The slow development of the Nationals Park district.
“The Specter of Gary Sheffield,” by Will Leitch.
April 11, 2009 »
We can be immortalized, but we are not immortal. Doug Glanville: “Loss Beyond the Score.”
April 10, 2009 »
Rich Lederer re-runs his 2006 interview with Nick Adenhart, then a 19-year-old in the California league.
Screeching. We’re flying forward against our will. My eyes are shut. I’m in a dark void. Jon Weisman: “A Decade Before the Death of Nick Adenhart.”
Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart, 1986-2009. Drunk driving claims another victim. A tragic loss.
April 8, 2009 »
Geoff Young remembers his first Rotisserie League team.
Related to the last: Steve Wulf’s “Err Jordan” from March 1994, and Tim Kirkjian’s take on MJ the outfielder.
Jack McCallum: “The lasting image I have of Jordan as a baseball player, though, is watching number 45 strike out, weakly…”
Joe Posnanski, on the Kansas City Royals’ 40th birthday: “This hasn’t been some torrid love affair.”
April 7, 2009 »
World Focus turns its cameras to Cuban baseball.
“Mom loved being famous in the ballparks.” Keith Olbermann on his mother’s passing.
An inexplicable tale starring Ellis Burks and Robert Fick: Fur Hat.
Quiet Bubble hosts a baseball literature roundtable.
“They ran the bases for Jaime Irogoyen.” The Death of a Pitcher.
April 6, 2009 »
HER: “Most guys have us dress up like schoolgirls. … Who am I dressed up as, again?” HIM: “Esteban Loaiza.” A-Rod’s Opening Day.
Jon Weisman reflects on Opening Day.
The Wall Street Journal on empty press boxes and the vanishing baseball beat writer.
Since the 1930s, says Eric Spitznagel, “baseball’s true purpose has been to inspire.”
April 5, 2009 »
A Bronx Banter classic, by Alex Belth: Inside Man: A Bronx Tale. Plus parts 2, 3 and 4.
The New York Times profiles Josh Wilker of Cardboard Gods.
Tommy Craggs profiles Dustin Pedroia for Boston Magazine.
“Letters from Cousin Yuri”: Ben Greenman on Alex Rodriguez. Part two here.
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