September 19, 2008 – 11:07 am
From Sports Illustrated’s The genius of Manny Ramirez: “‘You don’t know what to throw the guy,’ says Bill Swift, a one-time Olympic hero and 20-game winner who faced Manny eight times in his career. Ramirez crushed six hits, three of them doubles, two of them homers. ‘You just look at him in the box, and [...]
From Doug Glanville’s very sweet, Signed, Sealed, Delivered…Finally: “If I were to put a number on it, I’d say that I probably signed 90 percent of my fan mail over the course of my [baseball] career, and the remaining 10 percent I had saved over time at the end of each season. Even though I [...]
October 23, 2007 – 11:44 am
Fr my birthday, my sons and their significant others gave me a ticket to the first playoff game of this post-season – a gem of a game pitched by Josh Beckett. My middle son went with me. Being a die hard Red Sox fan, he was as excited as I was.
We had great seats (even [...]
April 18, 2007 – 11:35 am
From The New Yorker’s Waiting for Manny: “He is perhaps the closest thing in contemporary professional sports to a folk hero, an unpredictable public figure about whom relatively little is actually known but whose exploits, on and off the field, are recounted endlessly, with each addition punctuated by a shrug and the observation that it’s [...]
February 1, 2006 – 08:15 pm
When you’re a college undergrad who mostly takes independent studies, who only works about 10 hours a week over the Internet, and who lives in a very small town, it’s important to have a mindless outlet where you can spend several hours a week just vegging out.
For me, that outlet is MVP Baseball: 2004, for [...]
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