Courtesy of his friend Allan Barden, David ‘Dick’ Turpin returns to The Footy Almanac to share his memories of baseball in Woomera.
Almanac Baseball: MLB Final Eight
October 10, 2022 by 4 Comments
It’s not footy finals, but it’s finals of a different sort – Brian the Ruminator has all the info from the beginning of the pointy end of the MLB season.
Almanac Baseball: Ruminating on MLB and the ABL in 2021
August 30, 2021 by Leave a Comment
As various footy codes start winding up, Brian the Ruminator turns his attention yet again to baseball, in particular the local competiton and the world’s biggest league.
Almanac Baseball: Mid-Season Wrap/All Star Game Preview
July 12, 2021 by 1 Comment
Brian the Ruminator turns his attention from rugby to baseball as the MLB’s season begins to take shape.
Almanac Baseball – Ruminating on Rankings
May 5, 2021 by 3 Comments
Brian The Ruminator runs the stats to see who’s hot and who’s not in Major League Baseball this season.
Almanac Baseball: Tribute to a legend, Pride of the LA Royal Blue
January 18, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Richard Marlow pays his respects to a colossus of baseball, LA Dodgers hero Tommy Lasorda, reflecting upon a chance meeting in Sydney over 20 years ago.
Almanac (Baseball) Memoir: What’s in a name? You’d be surprised.
January 29, 2020 by 9 Comments
American correspondent Glenn Brownstein discovered his dad named him after a well known baseball player of the time. Read his terrific story about the origin of his name.
Almanac Baseball: ABL Playoffs
January 29, 2020 by 3 Comments
It’s finals time in the Australian Baseball League. Brian the Ruminator looks at the form for the weekend’s games.
Almanac Baseball: ABL Talking Points
November 21, 2019 by 1 Comment
With the Australian Baseball League season about to get underway, Brian the Ruminator shares his thoughts on what to look out for as the maple bats and cowhide balls take to the diamond. (He has a weakness for the Kiwi cricketers, too.)
Adam Goodes: His Legacy
July 18, 2019 by 6 Comments
This article was published in July 2015 at the time covered in Ian Darling’s documentary ‘The Final Quarter’:
Braham Dabscheck argues that Adam Goodes has forced Australia to confront the “ugly” side of itself.
Round 6 – St Kilda v Adelaide: Positives from disappointing loss
May 1, 2019 by 3 Comments
Yoshi is looking for positives after the Saints went down to the Crows. Result or not, he packed in a big weekend of sport.
Almanac Baseball: Post Season With Most Post
October 2, 2018 by 1 Comment
Brian The Ruminator provides a MLB post-season update as baseball moves into the business end of the season and offers punters plenty of excitement.
Almanac Baseball: The ABL Curveball
August 29, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Brian the Ruminator muses on the upcoming ABL season, with the inclusion of Auckland and Geelong-Korea.
Almanac Baseball: Sox Soar
April 24, 2018 by 3 Comments
Love ’em or hate ’em (Brian the Ruminator loves ’em) the Boston Red Sox are in the midst of arguably their best ever start to a season. He breaks down why this year has been a red-letter one for the red-socked ones.
Almanac Baseball: Bandits Steal Home
February 16, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Brian the Ruminator wraps up the The 2017/18 ABL season as the Brisbane Bandits won their third successive Claxton Shield on Sunday.
Almanac Baseball: ABL Ain’t No BBL
January 9, 2018 by 3 Comments
What has slowly dawned on The Ruminator over time is that trying to compare our respective affinities for cricket and baseball is not so much a hankering for the glory days of old but the brutal reality of sport in the modern world. The BBL is a behemoth that is offering Australian fans what Americans have taken for granted for decades – when the days are long and languid people like to watch games that kick off about 7pm and finish around 10pm pretty much any old night of the week.
Almanac Baseball: 2017 All Star Game
July 13, 2017 by Leave a Comment
The MLB All Star Game had all the excitement and drama that you would expect and Brian has the action covered.
Almanac Baseball: The Sweet Spot
June 6, 2017 by 1 Comment
Brian looks at the recent trend of elevated batting in baseball. He also looks at the change in batting styles T20 has introduced to cricket.
Emerging Trends… Or Not
May 11, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Brian takes a look at the trends that may or may not be taking place in the MLB this season.
When the Cubs Came to Fenway
May 2, 2017 by 2 Comments
Brian brings the latest from America for all the Aussie baseball fans.
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