Meme-O-Random: Dodgers Reinforcements
The Los Angeles Dodgers’ bullpen is in trouble and they could use any help they can get. Check out more funny baseball memes in Off Base. Or like our Facebook page: The Baseball Memes
The Game that Changed Baseball—Part III
This is the final installment of a three-part series. See Part I, Part II Writing in his baseball column the next day, Henry Chadwick gushed about the wildly entertaining game. He was not the only one. The New York Times …
Brandon Nimmo Loves Sabermetrics (and So Should You)
Let’s be honest, most fans have heard of sabermetrics but don’t understand all the gibberish. Perhaps because the word sabermetrics is mentioned on some baseball broadcasts and hardly mentioned on others, few broadcasters discuss how the advanced analytical concepts are …
The Game that Changed Baseball—Part II
This is the second installment of a three-part series. See Part I. Brooklyn took the field and quickly Cincinnati led 3-0, but a few poor fielding plays (remember there were no baseball gloves at that time, so players fielded balls …
“The Game” that Changed Baseball—Part I
The first important professional baseball game was not part of a World Series, or any series for that matter, it was one game played at the Capitoline Grounds in Brooklyn, New York, on a warm June afternoon in 1870 between …
Memorable Baseball and the Not-So-Memorable 2018 Washington Nationals
The baseball season’s a mélange of games, some memorable, and some wonderfully forgettable. And then there are rainouts. There’s something magical about listening to baseballers during a rain delay. The long wait to resume. Maybe it’s the old agrarian pace …
The Poetry of Extra Innings Gone By
Extra Innings The answers only count at the end. The wiry lefty Hank Aguirre comes set. Delivers. It’s going, going, gone. Aguirre takes a season to watch the arc disappear into the stands. Now the numbers match. A runner lopes …
Meme-O-Random: Little League Coach of the Year
This little league coach is the hero we need and the hero we deserve. He put these sports dads in their place with the high heat. Check out more funny baseball memes in Off Base. Or like our Facebook page: The …
Measuring Baseball: Irrelevant Statistics Take Center Stage
Listen to a baseball game on radio, or watch it on television. Prepare to be barraged by numbers. Measurements. Not batting average or on-base percentage, home runs or runs batted in or even the newest stat, OPS (on-base plus slugging). …
Death of the Bunt: A Story of Numbers and Money
The other night, I watched Amed Rosario of the New York Mets embarrass himself. He was trying to bunt. Over the years, I’ve seen masters bunt. Winning players like Rod Carew and Pete Rose immediately come to mind. Payers who …
