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The John Michael Paveskovich Pole
Pesky joins Rizzuto. In the words of W. H. Auden, Pesky has become one of his own admirers.Christened by one-time teammate and broadcaster Mel Parnell “The Pesky Pole,” at 302 feet from home plate in...
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Ted Williams: The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived
I (Evander) find myself addicted to old television programs, like the whimsical yet sophisticated “What’s My Line,” which, in the “Mystery Challenger” portions can be found on YouTube by calling up...
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Home-run “Darby”
What will they think of next? Although we at the Right Off the Bat Project are hardly enamored of the mere distance baseballs are hit, like anyone else we do sometimes feel that size—as measured by...
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Oldtimers’ Day 2013
Heinie Manush: A real old-time OldtimerFollowing the whole media-and-financial brouhaha between Brian Cashman and Alex Rodriguez, it has taken me (Evander) a few extra days to digest all the doings of...
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1918 and All That
2013 was never in the wildest dreams of Ted Williams or his fansAnd in the end the only team left standing is the Boston Red Sox. I (Evander) doubt any major-league franchise and fan base have suffered...
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21st-c. Ball and the Fans
Will sports’ machinery and technology more closely conform to gray matter in the future?Is “the umpire blind”? Herewith the first important reviewable play in 21st-c. MLB, which means in the history of...
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Hat Size: $303K
That’s one expensive baseball cap.It was 80 years ago today that MLB taught Japan to play. Well, not exactly. But the 1934 barnstorming tour including the likes of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Jimmie...
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The Greatest Hitter Ever May Not Be Who(m) You Think
It’s a science…much of the time. Photo courtesy of Paul Ponomarev I (Evander) was in some Hotstove/Grapefruit/Cactus Leagues discussions with friends. One, a mathematician, said he had seen an ESPN...
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Streaking
Popular performance art in the heyday of Bobby Riggs: This type of streaker perdures. Like the proverbial first-small-step of the longest journey, record-MLB streaks begin innocently enough. Each...
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Mantle by the New Math Numbers
The bats look like toothpicks. Like most red-blooded (Is there any other color?) American (U.S., but let’s include the entire hemisphere) males from Noo Yawk, and aetat. fifty to eighty at this writing...
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