In the absence of any baseball – or indeed sport – across the world at the moment, I decided it was time to take matters into our own hands. Quite literally in fact. Whilst there are plenty of people out
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Category: Baseball
How do you solve a problem like a shortened season?
Depending on when the MLB gets the okay to start playing again, we could be at a point in the year where the numbers of days left means a severely shortened season. If we get to that stage, there are
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Crazy For Cardboard – An Introduction To Baseball Card Collecting
There are so many cool and interesting ways to consume baseball and augment the enjoyment of watching the sport. There are books, there are films, listening to podcasts, there’s playing catch in the park, training with your local ball club.
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Looking for baseball when there is no actual baseball
How are you surviving without baseball in this mad world at the moment? It is tough. Before all of this Covid-19 madness, I didn’t know I needed that baseball fix in the morning in my life this much, just like
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An Ode To Mike Zunino
It’s hard to write about baseball when there’s no baseball happening. I’ve spent at least two hours today trying to think about how to make the fact the 2020 Seattle Mariners sent some players you’ve never heard of back down
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A history of fugitive hamsters (or, getting through the indefinite off-season)
Here at Bat Flips and Nerds we sometimes get people who want to contribute but don’t know what to write. We often say to them, “Why not write about what got you into baseball?” I have never written one of
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Episode 163 – A Cup of Coffee with Jacob Kornhauser
Rob is joined by Jacob Kornhauser, author of ‘The Cup of Coffee Club’, to talk about those players who only ever got one game in the majors. The Cup of Coffee Club shares the stories of eleven men who played
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‘Expand your baseball knowledge beyond MLB’ feature – Episode #2 Montgomery Biscuits
Riverwalk Stadium, home of the Montgomery Biscuits If you missed my first episode about the Macon Bacon, let me give you a bit of background. I was diagnosed with terminal cancer in September 2017 and immediately made a bucket list
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Mets Lose Noah Syndergaard to Tommy John Surgery
Well, if you didnt think the situation regarding baseball could get a whole lot worse, it just did. It was announced on Tuesday evening that Mets starter Noah Syndergaard has torn his ulnar collateral ligament in his right arm and
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Investigating Sophomore Slump
This is Chris Gauthier’s debut article for Bat Flips and Nerds. He’s a college student and a Mets fan. If you’re a dedicated sports fan, chances are at one point or another, you’ve heard the term “sophomore slump,” referring to
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