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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Tag: MLB
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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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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Episode 162 – Lane Adams, Minnesota Twins
Current Minnesota Twin, and former big leaguer with the Royals and Braves, Lane Adams, joined John to chat everything from the upheaval to Spring Training caused by COVID19, the fight for better pay for Minor Leaguers and his lousy MLB
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Episode 161 – GB Coach Liam Carroll on the WBC that Never Was
One month ago, Russell was excited getting prepared for his trip to Arizona to present at the Sabr Conference and cover Team GB. Meanwhile, across the country, GB coach Liam Carroll, one of the wisest baseball minds we have this
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Episode 160 – Andy Burns, Toronto Blue Jays
Blue Jays infielder Andy Burns chats to John about his time with the club, his career as a ‘rock star’ with the Lotte Giants of the KBO and spending 2019 up close and personal in Buffalo with the Blue Jays
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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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