“The problem with history is that every story has multiple witnesses, but no witness ever has the entire truth.” – Kevin Guilfoile A Drive into the Gap was one of the first books about baseball that I ever read. My
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Category: Learning to Baseball
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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Official UK Indy Ball Affiliate – Introducing the Teams
The following article aims to inform and help you decide which independent team to vote for during the next two weeks of battle. One of the most desired outcomes from this competition is to increase interest in independent baseball and
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Is 2018 Looking Blue for the Jays?
A warm welcome for a guest blog to the proprietor of East Atlantic Outlook, James Dawne… After back-to-back ALDS appearances, 2017 saw the Blue Jays drop under .500 for the first time since 2013 (4th in AL East; .469, 76-86).
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Getting to Know You – Yaya Baseball
In case you’ve missed it, we’ve teamed up with awesome Slovakian bat manufacturers Yaya Baseball to offer one lucky Bat Flips & Nerds reader or follower the chance to win one of their incredible custom made bats worth €119. At
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California Dreaming – Part One
Here to recap a Los Angeles baseball experience, it’s Paul Mitchell… Traffic in Los Angeles isn’t as bad as you may have heard – it’s worse. A family holiday to California in July brought the opportunity to see some West
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Learning to Baseball – Really Learning to Baseball
You don’t really need to understand baseball to watch great baseball movies because at their core they are metaphors for life rather than sporting action. If you are going to support a team though and watch some games it all
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Learning to Baseball – Thirty Years Later, I Went To A Game
So, I had fallen for the Mets and I had fallen for baseball but what I really wanted was to sit in the stands to watch a game and roughly thirty years later here I was. Well you get side-tracked
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Learning to Baseball 2 – ‘You Lost All Our Cards!’
Steve Wright returns… As a younger sibling those words, taken from the opening scene of the 1986 New York Mets World Series song, resonated with me. Whoever had been reckless enough to lay that prized collection of baseball cards on
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Learning to Baseball – Discovering Baseball Through Film
Making his B&N debut, with a new feature, welcome Steve Wright… I fell in love with baseball before I had any clue about the game. Specifically, in the initial stages, it was movies that made the introductions. I wanted to
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