Precious Sanders

LATEST ARTICLES ( 1953 )

• Infographic: Facial Hair Hurlers

  

  Here’s an infographic sponsored by WAHL, which appears to have been created going into the 2012 All-Star Game.  It depicts the success of pitchers with facial... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2015 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Quote of the Day

  

  They didn’t get along. Gehrig thought Ruth was a big-mouth and Ruth thought Gehrig was cheap. They were both right. ~Tony Lazzeri Tony Lazzeri (City of Toronto Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2015 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Martin Maldonado Knocks Cover off a Baseball

  

  In April of last year, Brewers catcher Martin Maldonado hit a ground ball to third in a game against the Pirates.  Third baseman Pedro Alvarez noticed... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2015 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Electric Baseball Reproducer

  

  In Eric Rolfe Greenberg’s novel The Celebrant, Jackie Kapp mentions hanging out on the streets to track New York Giants games on boards designed to allow fans t... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2015 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Quote of the Day

  

  The beauty of the game is that there are no absolutes. It’s all nuances and anticipation, not like football, which is all about vectors and forces. Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2015 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Baseball’s Handout to Haiti, by Tom Keough

  

  This comic puts the financial situation of Major League Baseball and of America as a whole in perspective.  As much as I enjoy the game, it has always been... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2015 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• This Day in Baseball: Boston Wins the First World Series

  

  The final game of the first-ever World Series was played in October 13, 1903 between the Boston Americans (Red Sox) and the Pittsburgh Pirates. Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2015 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• “Subway,” by Jim Nuzzo

  

  This song made me smile as I listened to it.  I love the moments of history that he mentions, and you can feel the nostalgia oozing out of every beat. Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2015 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Quote of the Day

  

  To be a pitcher! I thought. A pitcher, standing at the axis of event, or a catcher with the God-view of the play all before him; to be a shortstop, lord of the... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2015 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Ryne Sandberg’s Hall of Fame Induction Speech

  

  is arguably one of the best that I’ve listened to thus far.  I particularly enjoyed his discussion of the proliferation of home runs in the game. Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2015 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• This Day in Baseball: 1908 NL Pennant Race

  

  Approximately two week’s after Merkle’s Boner took place, the Cubs faced off once again against the New York Giants on October 8, 1908. Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2015 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Wednesday Jokes

  

  Here are a couple jokes for this Hump Day morning. They’re both a little hokey, but still amusing in their own way.  Enjoy! * A baseball player is sitting on th... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2015 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Quote of the Day

  

  Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen, my friend, there’s no man alive who can throw harder than Joe Wood. ~Walter Johnson Walter Johnson (Library of Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2015 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Eight Men Out, by Eliot Asinof

  

  I finished reading Eliot Asinof’s Eight Men Out this past week, the latest book assignment in my baseball literature class.  It proved itself an eye-opening... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2015 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• This Day in Baseball

  

  Bob Gibson of the Cardinals became a twenty-game winner for the first time on October 3, 1965, as he won game number 20 for the season against the Astros in... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2015 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• “A Mile in My Shoes: Joe Jackson,” by Don Waldo

  

  We have been discussing the book Eight Men Out in class (summary/review to come soon!), so this piece seemed appropriate this morning. Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2015 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Quote of the Day

  

  I couldn’t see well enough when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job—they made me umpire. ~Harry S. Truman Author: Greta Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2015 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Infographic: How Baseball Gloves Are Made

  

  I feel like, in baseball, there tends to be a lot of focus on the composition of the bat and of the ball, but so little attention is paid to the glove. Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2015 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Don’t Swing

  

  This cartoon makes me think of Eddie Gaedel of the St. Louis Browns, the shortest player in Major League history.  Gaedel made only one plate appearance on... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2015 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Quote of the Day

  

  I believe in the Rip Van Winkle theory—that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark, and understand... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2015 BASEBALL, SPORTS