As faithful readers will know, I have been offered a chance to contribute to a Where Are They Now section on a Web site called Baseball Savvy. The section is made up of features catching up with former ballplayers, not Hall of Famers necessarily, but the Vida Blues and Bill Madlocks of the sport. I [...]
Archive for April, 2010
My attempt to interview Bernie Carbo today
Posted: 27th April 2010 by Graham Womack in Drugs in baseballTags: Bernie Carbo, Dave McCarthy
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New post over at Giants Galore
Posted: 26th April 2010 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedI finally put up a new post on the group blog I’m apart of, Giants Galore. Here it is: Some possible reasons Barry Zito is doing better
News on the baseball writing front
Posted: 24th April 2010 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: IBWAA, Joe Marty
A couple of cool things happened for me baseball writing-wise this week. First, as regular readers may know, I joined the Internet Baseball Writers Association of America on Wednesday. Since then, I have been talking with the head of the group, and he has invited me to write for a Where Are They Now section [...]
Some baseball blogs I follow
Posted: 22nd April 2010 by Graham Womack in Blogging talesTags: babes love baseball, giants galore, other bloggers
As a baseball blogger, I’ve begun to make a point in the past several months of reading other baseball blogs. Besides building links to this site whenever I leave comments (where I can offer insight, of course– nobody likes a spammer), I also find some of the material I come across fairly entertaining. Plus, it [...]
Another week, another group: I join the Internet Baseball Writers Association of America
Posted: 21st April 2010 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: IBWAA
With less than a week having passed since I joined the Society for American Baseball Research, I signed up online today to be a member of another group I’ve been eying, the Internet Baseball Writers Association of America. Launched July 4, 2009 in Los Angeles, the IBWAA is an alternative to the old-guard Baseball Writers [...]
Why the baseball draft is worse than the NFL Draft or NBA Draft
Posted: 17th April 2010 by Graham Womack in Big picture ideasTags: baseball draft busts, MLB draft vs NFL Draft or NBA Draft, mlb first-year player draft
Unlike football and basketball where I eagerly await the drafts each year, study mock drafts in the weeks and months before, and try to envision who my favorite teams will select, I don’t feel the same anticipation with baseball. I can’t remember the last time I cared to read a mock First-Year Player Draft in [...]
About five years overdue: I join the Society for American Baseball Research
Posted: 15th April 2010 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: Joe Marty, ongoing projects, SABR
I did something today that I have wanted to do for the past few years and joined the Society for American Baseball Research. For those who don’t know, it is a research society for people who like to read, write and talk about baseball (I like to do all three.) I attended a lunch meeting [...]
A Ricky Romero story that bears repeating
Posted: 13th April 2010 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: Ricky Romero
Toronto Blue Jays starter Ricky Romero carried a no-hitter into the eighth inning tonight against the Chicago White Sox, losing it only after surrendering a home run to Alex Rios. It was the lone hit Romero surrendered of the night, and he earned the win, though I was hoping he would get the no-hitter. Not [...]
The Continental League: It could still happen
Posted: 10th April 2010 by Graham Womack in Big picture ideasTags: best cities without baseball, Branch Rickey Continental League, cities most deserving of a baseball team, could there be another baseball league?
In 1959, a group led by Branch Rickey announced plans for a Continental League with teams in Atlanta, Buffalo, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York and Toronto. Different than former rival circuits such as the American Association, Players’ League or Federal League, Rickey and his associates envisioned a complementary league. However, they folded August [...]