Killer baseball
April 12, 2021
Many a child can identify with Calvin in this one.
Month: April 2021
Quote of the day
April 9, 2021
Baseball calls it a curve ball for a reason: you just don’t know where some pitches will land. Your ace could get injured. Your golden glover could err. Your team could sit through a rain delay. Your manager could get ejected. Your bench must be broad and deep enough to overcome.
~Christine Pelosi
“Opening Day,” Terry Cashman
April 8, 2021
It’s been a week since Opening Day, but the season feels new enough that this song still feels appropriate. I really love the line about being “a kid once more.”
Ethnic makeup of MLB players over times
April 6, 2021
Here’s a cool, animated graph that shows the change in the ethnic makeup of MLB since the late 1940s. The number of African-American and Latino players drew even in the early 1990s. The percentage of Asian players is still barely more than a blip on the graph, but that does seem to be changing.
This day in baseball: Garbey’s debut
April 3, 2021
On Opening Day in 1984, Tiger rookie Barbaro Garbey became the first Cuban refugee to play in Major League Baseball, having played in the Serie Nacional prior to defecting to the United States. Garbey grounded out in the seventh inning as a pinch-hitter for Dave Bergman, then would stay in the game. Garbey played first base in Detroit’s 8-1 defeat of Minnesota in the Metrodome.
Quote of the day
April 1, 2021
It’s like Christmas, except it’s warmer.
~Pete Rose, on Opening Day
