In 2018 I summarised the plans for a dreamy new stadium in Tampa Bay that was supposed to be the glittering home of the Rays for decades to come. The dream ended and we’ve woken up to a very different
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Author: Rob Noverraz
Looking for a Hit (By Pitch)
Plunked, beaned, drilled, hit-by-pitch, the often unpleasant act of stalling the progress of a speeding baseball with one’s self. It’s perhaps not the most morally clean play to root for, but it generates replays and occasionally talking points. So, for
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FIGHT! 2018
As we ramp up to the beginning of the 2019 season, one thing Baseball players have demonstrated over and over is that they’re good at keeping grudges (Lest we forget that in 2017 Hunter Strickland plunked Bryce Harper in retaliation
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Rays the roof for a new stadium
So, the Rays have finally announced plans to ditch the stadium that regularly only competes with the A’s Coloseum as the worst in Baseball. We’ve been shown some glittering pictures of a jewel like creation sitting in a built up
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MLB Rookies of 2017 – Part 1
At the time of writing (some weeks ago – a very tardy and apologetic ed.), 153 players had made their MLB debut in 2017. Just over half way through the season I was interested to see how the newbies are
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The Unwritten Rules Of Baseball
Baseball has a lot of rules. A LOT of rules. Somewhere between 70 and 110 depending on how you count them. Whilst many people will not be fully aware of rule 7.03 (c) whereby ‘a game shall be forfeited to
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A Brief History Of Mound Charges – Part 2
Picking up where we left off in part one, here are three more mound charging episodes that we all secretly enjoyed whilst pretending outwardly that it has no place in the game. This time we have two Venturas for
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