Brian the Ruminator continues his introduction to the joys of Major League Baseball. Professional sport is increasingly a world of KPI’s and stats. Brian ruminates on the important numbers in the MLB.
Almanac Weekend Wrap
January 25, 2016 by 2 Comments
Keep up to date with this weekend’s Alamanc Sporting Weekend Wrap
Question Seventeen
August 20, 2015 by 3 Comments
Baseball fan Rob Chanter has never seen a crowd have as much fun as he did in Japan. Isn’t that what sport is all about?
Too Few are Flipping Father Time the Finger
February 21, 2015 by 4 Comments
A fantastic and thought-provoking piece from Jeff Dowsing: Why do we instantly write-off sportspeople when they hit the big 3-0? If you’re good enough, play on, argues Jeff.
Pitch drops, Torps and Bumps
May 20, 2014 by 3 Comments
Longworth thinks the bump is slowly dying, just like the torp.
Yvette Does Cooperstown
February 7, 2014 by 4 Comments
Yvette Wroby visits the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York and meets a Springbok champion battling adversity. “We have to take every opportunity in life, life is way too short to store it away for tomorrow.”
US Sports : Must Try Harder
January 21, 2014 by 5 Comments
Andrew Fraser has enjoyed(?) a fact-finding tour to sacred US sporting places which has resulted in this playfully (I think?) parochial piece of comparative sporting culture.
Yvette’s Very Excellent Adventure Chapter 64: World Series Baseball
November 1, 2013 by 9 Comments
The Curse of the Wrobino has been broken. Yvette Wroby reports from Massachusetts (cue Bee Gees) where she has just cheered her beloved Red Sox to World Series Baseball victory.
Filling the void with the World Series – Game 6 from 11:00am today (AEDT)
October 31, 2013 by 6 Comments
Paul Campbell provides a brilliant update of the Boston Red Sox and St Louis Cardinals Baseball World Series contest to date. The potentially deciding Game 6 is on this morning. Think cricket with the boring bits cut out.
Tits, Tips, Trailer Trash & The Truth
October 18, 2013 by 10 Comments
Peter Baulderstone offers suggested reading of the best articles from the international sporting web. The title is just bait and switch marketing. This is the sort of stuff that Litza used to write before Rupert’s $ seduced him.
Take me out to the ball park
September 17, 2013 by 4 Comments
Yvette Wroby travelled to Fenway Park as part of her USA adventure to watch the Red Sox and the Yankees.
Jon Will’s Gift
June 9, 2013 by 1 Comment
Dips O’Donnell’s recent letter to his daughter, Kate, made Peter Baulderstone reflect on the nature of wisdom, and reminded him of US social and political commentator George Will, and his son Jon.
Link: Somehow you can come clean but leave others feeling dirty
January 12, 2010 by 1 Comment
Dear Almanackers, Here’s another interesting piece from the New York Times, this time concerning the stage-management of mea culpas. The apologist here is Mark McGwire, but it’s an issue that play on the minds of footy administrators in 2010, I’m sure! http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/sports/baseball/12sandomir.html?hp Rob Clarkson
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