Tommy John – Bat Flips and Nerds

A Brit Learning Baseball Through Books: Jeff Passan’s “The Arm”

October 30, 2018 Paddy Johnston Baseball, Baseball Book, Baseball Books

I finished reading Jeff Passan’s book The Arm shortly after making my pitching debut in the London Mets Fall League, pitching exclusively what one teammate charitably described as ‘80s loop balls’ (referring, of course, to the decade of the 1980s

Tommy John surgery – bionic or barbaric?

September 20, 2018 Gavin Baseball, Opinion

In January 2018, the Oxford English Dictionary added 1,100 new entries. Some, like mansplaining, I hear from my daughters in response to sage advice I impart. Others, like hangry, are also directed at me, usually when I arrive home a