Moneyball has been celebrated as a revolutionary look into the world of baseball analytics. The movie that followed also has been hailed as an intriguing look into the world of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane. The movie follows the 2002 Oakland...
“You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.” – Jim Bouton, Ball four, 1970 You are two or three years-old and you pick up your first baseball. You grip this white ball...
The Chicago Cubs made some offseason splashes but no bigger splash was made than the hire of manager Joe Maddon. He has long been known in the game as a forward thinker who consistently puts his players in positions of success. He is known as a well-read man who...
On Sunday, April 15h, Major League Baseball celebrated the 60th Anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s first game as a Brooklyn Dodger. Every Major League Baseball player donned the number 42 on their backs as they celebrated and paid tribute to a man who broke the color...
Poets, novelists and Playwrights have been writing for the last century about a great muse. This inspiration is the game of baseball. It is a resource for writers that can never be drained. It always keeps giving and giving and never seems to empty. The reason it...
Baseball is the only game in the world where the offense never touches the ball and the defense always has the ball. “Baseball is the only sport I know that when you are offense, the other teams controls the ball.” Ken Harrelson, Sports Illustrated, September 1976....
