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 seems only right that if I’m blindly asking people to read my work, the least I can do is take five or ten minutes a day to follow suit.
Thus, I’ve started to build up a list of baseball blogs that I follow. If I ever get a blogroll going on my home page, the following links will probably be included:
Baseball Musings: The number-one ranked baseball blog for Google. This guy occasionally links me up if I write a killer post, send him a link (don’t bother offering him hastily-written crap, it doesn’t work), and the stars align. The reward is generally 50-100 extra visitors to my site.
Only Baseball Matters: A blog mostly on the San Francisco Giants by an extremely dry observer.
Extra Baggs: Another Giants blog, this one by their beat writer for the San Jose Mercury News.
Dear (Tommy) John Letters: Kind of like the Paul Shirley of baseball bloggers, i.e. another entertaining writer/sometimes athlete.
Babes Love Baseball: I learned of these ladies on Twitter when I did a search on baseball blogs. My ideal woman loves baseball so I was drawn in. I found that the writing on the site is sharp and well-informed as well.
DMB Historic World Series Replay: This guy knows a lot about the early history of baseball, occasionally can be found in the comments section here and was kind enough to give me a shout out on his site. Hence, I am doing the same.
My First Cards: I mentioned this guy (one of my regular readers) and his blog on 1982 Topps baseball cards in my last post, so I won’t be too redundant, besides to say I find this site fun and informative.
SPORTSADVISOR: This guy, another regular here, clearly loves sports and claims to have struck out Albert Pujols twice back in high school.
Giants Galore: Plug for myself. The group blog on the San Francisco Giants that I was tapped to be a part of has started to take off. I would encourage people to keep an eye on it, especially if the Giants make a pennant run.
This is by no means a list of every blog that I follow. If you are a blogger and feel I missed you, please leave a comment, and I will try to say something nice.
Wow I’m honored that you included me in your list. Also don’t forget after I struck him out with the cheap tricks first climbing the ladder and second time with a nasty slider he chased into the dirt what happened. He hit a bomb off me further than anything I’ve ever seen. Wait after the first minute of flight I quit watching but I heard it landed at a neighboring zip code. Once again thanks for the support. I read baseball past & present everyday I get on the site.
Happy to help Marcus, thanks for supporting my blog. Having regular readers is big motivation for me to post.
Joe– I need to start reading your blog. I’ve tried clicking to get to it before, without luck, but I’m going to try again.
This is a great list. Thanks for sharing Graham.
Marcus,
So I guess your mistake was throwing him a strike. 🙂
I am not a big blogger but I do follow a Baseball Blog and think its entertaining and informative. It’s Elifrombrooklyn.com
Hi Steven,
Thanks for sharing! I hadn’t heard of this blog, but I glanced at it just now and it looks like good reading. I’ll have to give it a longer look some evening.
Thanks again,
Graham
I’ve been blogging about baseball for a while, but just discovered your site. I like it and I’m going to add it to my blogroll. If you do start a blog roll, please consider adding Baseball In-Depth. Thanks.
Hi Brad,
I figured out yesterday evening how to add widgets to my blog, so a blogroll should be forthcoming in the next day or two. I took a look at your site, and I like your stuff– I’ll make sure to provide a link.
Thanks for reading and the Twitter add,
Graham