Archive for November, 2007

Rounding third and heading home

Friday, November 16th, 2007

The Reds lost their greatest spokesmen when Joe passed yesterday, he was the voice of summer and he’ll forever be a part of my youth like humidity and river fog. He was big part of the Reds of the fifties, a close knit team with limited on the field success and memories that extend beyond […]

Cheating - Losing that Edge

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Continued from Yesterday

Act Two:
Originality is the art of concealing your sources
Benjamin Franklin
Ford was convinced that his secret was just that, a secret. His 1912 and 1913 seasons were not particularly fine, especially in the shadow of the achievements he garnered in his initial trips through the circuit. With contentment often comes carelessness, or so I’ve […]

Cheating - Looking for that Edge

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Do you love baseball?
Do you ingest the game and all its nuances, stats and lore, playing out the plots, the twists, the turns and the failures and the successes?
If you do then you surely know of this tale that has entrapped the game?
The one that brings forth the clarity of the rules and the extent […]