Some most excellent baseball sites recently browsed
All The Misery Money Can Buy, Part I - What really happens when your team signs the best player in the game? And here’s Part II.
Ballparks of Baseball — the fields of Major League Baseball, past, present, and future.
Oh, No! — Events in the History of the Texas Rangers Baseball Club. “The Rangers fan can’t take it all too seriously, or he would soon have psychological problems. All one can do is chuckle a little, shake his head and say, ‘Oh well, that’s just the Rangers.’ In that vein, here are some of the most spectacular lowlights in the history of the Texas Rangers, in no particular order….”
See also: baseball feeds and baseball quotes.
Other Cool Baseball Sites
Sports Illustrated, not normally known for its keen literary coverage, covers a century-old poetic conundrum.
The Unix geeks who run the MLB.com servers have a blog, ‘root’ for the home team, which title is severely clever. :) What’s best is they’re also big fans of the game themselves. That, and they’ve gotten Tommy Lasorda to start blogging.
The Language Log has a look at stuff, why pitchers have it but batters do not.
Space Ghosts: “These are satellite images of ballparks that used to house major league teams. Some are still in operation, some are demolished, and some linger on as unused derelects.” The picture above is of the Jackie Robinson Apartments, where Ebbets Field once stood.
