“Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young. Sitting in the stands, we sense this, if only
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Tag: Mets
Synchronicity – Undercover at Dodger Stadium
Welcome to Bat Flips & Nerds, Geoff Enderby… If you take the elevator to the top of the tower of City Hall in Los Angeles you can see far into the California distance, the L.A. river glamourised in Terminator 2
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In Tebow, Minor League Baseball Stands on the Shoulder of a Giant
Why did we let John get his writing mojo back? It’s time to stop taking the high road and to admit – Tim Tebow is good for baseball, especially in the minor leagues. Yet another story surfaced this week about
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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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Battlegrounds Profile: Cliff Floyd
With MLB UK’s Battlegrounds event on July 4th fast approaching, it’s time we get to know the former MLB players who will be starring on the day. First up is an Expos, Marlins and Mets outfielder who spent 17 seasons
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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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Minoring in British – April/Early May
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Great Britain has no prospects currently representing us in the Minors. What with Darius pensioning off Chris Reed, stalwarts Chris Berset and Antoan Richardson also announcing retirements and all the hoo-ha and celebration about MLB’s
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