Alex McLeman goes deep into this weekend’s College Baseball Super Regional matches and predicts who will punch their tickets to Omaha, Nebraska for the College World Series. The one is for a trip to Omaha The long road to the
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The Freddy Adu of Baseball?
Who remembers Freddy Adu? I was reminded of the once-wonderkid by a flurry on social media last weekend after he’d scored his first goal for new club Las Vegas Lights FC. For those of you who don’t know, Freddy Adu
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The Modern Myths of Baseball – Money Talks
This is the first of a multi part analysis piece I am doing into the modern myths of baseball. We live in a baseball world nowadays where there is such a significant amount of data that any theory about the
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Appreciate Clayton Kershaw while you still can
No team this year has been more beset by injuries than the Los Angeles Dodgers, and no one injury has weighed on the team more heavily than that of their ace Clayton Kershaw. His latest setback, coming immediately after his
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Betting Preview: Rockies to taste more success against Cincinnati
The Rockies and Reds play tonight in the second of a three-game series. Colorado won the first game last night 9-6, and were pretty comfortable throughout the game until the Reds scored three in the bottom of the 9th. The
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Chasing Vlad Jr…
Manchester, New Hampshire is an age from its namesake (the town from which I started this journey), and an unprepossessing place to travel to see a phenom. The city is a picture of provincial America, and quite unlike the metropolises
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Farewell Hanley, Missed in Manchester…
It’s a week and more now since the shock news that the Red Sox were designating Hanley Ramirez for assignment. The opprobrium has subsided, replaced by phlegmatism in part thanks to Mitch Moreland‘s continued stellar form – capped by a
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A Brit Learning Baseball Through Books: Why Baseball Matters
“The game stands up and out in the lowest-common-denominator American culture of distraction, disruption, and interruption. For me, this distinction makes baseball the most intellectually stimulating, emotionally satisfying, and downright glorious pastime ever devised.” – Susan Jacoby It’s not likely
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College Baseball Regional tournament preview
Alex McLeman goes deep into this weekend’s College Baseball Regionals, previewing each region, making picks and highlighting MLB draft picks to watch. The regionals have been announced, the teams have been revealed, the road to Omaha and the College World
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If Baseball was Football – Part 1: American League
A big welcome back to the Baseball Brit, Joey Mellows… Major League Baseball is coming to the UK! The London Series has been officially scheduled for June 29th & 30th in 2019 and this has sent die hard MLB UK
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