Slightly Better than Replacement Level
How much of Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever is written by Satchel Paige, and how much is written by David Lipman? How much is written by Lipman pretending to be Paige? How much of the content within the pages of Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever actually took place? If I were a gambling man, I’d wager that […]
Back on Friday, June 13th, the Los Angeles Dodgers held their annual Pride Night event. To get the cat out of the bag, I’m not the biggest fan of corporate Pride events. More often than not, they are pinkwashing affairs, meant to distract from actions that the corporation in question hopes you will forget about. […]
Baseball as fiction is always, in my opinion, hard for an author to pull off. The main reason for this is that the author doesn’t let baseball tell the story. Instead, they feel the need to insert some sort of extraneous element that isn’t really necessary to the story. Shadow Ball: A Novel of Baseball […]
It’s not often that one gets to read something that is a verifiable piece of history. Such is the case with Sol White’s Official Base Ball Guide. I had this one on my list of baseball books I wanted to get to for some time. Luckily, Summer Game Books republished the book in recent years, […]
Baseball is a game of simple joys. It can be grandiose at times and I love those moments as well. But, especially when it comes to attending a live game I have found that it is the little moments that really make for the true baseball-watching experience. Sitting down with a brat and explaining to […]