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* This week (Aug. 18) in Sports Illustrated
Needless to say, the emphasis is on the Olympics and Michael Phelps, but there are still a few baseball items worth noting: MLB poll: Who’s the best catcher in the Majors? A Dan Patrick intervi...
* Minor leagues in name only
This article from Forbes reflects the tremendous increase in fan interest and, thereby, profits to be had in the minor leagues. There’s also a link to a slideshow about the 20 “best”...
* This week (August 4) in Sports Illustrated
None of the recent blockbuster deals were included in this week’s issue, but among the baseball items (fantasy football is on the cover): MLB poll: Which rookie has impressed you the most this ...
* Marvin Miller shut out of HoF, but by whom?
This “conspiracy theory” article comes from The Nation. And I don’t mean that as a negative. Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not trying to get you...
* SI online needs more quality control
Before the advent of the wonderful Sports Illustrated “Vault” archives, the magazine’s only presence had a little more pizzazz than it seems to these days. Maybe the company doesn...
* A-Rod on the Radar
From the on-line version of the pop culture magazine, the Yankees wandering third baseman is a member of a special all-star team....
* A little slice of heaven from Roger Angell
From the July 7 issue of The New Yorker, a piece about a statistical anomaly and the New York Yankees....
* A tribute (?) to Yankee Stadium
In the Times’ latest on-line edition of Play, this piece about the old/new ballparks in the Bronx. Economist Andrew Zimbalist, author of Baseball and Billions, among other titles, recently discu...
* What the heck, one more: This week in Sports Illustrated
Cover story on Tim “The Freak” Lincecum. Other baseball stories include: Tom Verduci’s mid-season report The latest MLB players’ poll: Who has the best raw power?...
* This week in Sports Illustrated (June 30)
Last week the SI MLB player poll asked about the most overrated athlete. This week, it’s the most underrated. Rays’ DH Cliff Floyd opens up a bit about his new team. Michael Farber profile...
* Life imitates art
In the current issue of ESPN The Magazine, Rick Reilly writes about a high school pitcher who deliberately threw at a home plate umpire, instructing his catcher to let the ball go on through. You can ...
* This week in Sports Illustrated
Tiger’s on the cover, but there are several baseball items, including: The SI “Most Overrated Player” Poll “Shake Me Down at the Ball Game“, by Josh Levin A mini-profile...
*Whither Rick Reilly
The former Sports Illustrated columnist is the latest to defect to ESPN The Magazine. In his Market Watch media column, Jon Friedman express concern that Reilly will fall victim to the ESPN mindset an...
* This sounds familiar somehow
Like the nerdy math genius at school who figures out a way to make a few bucks by crunching the numbers for sports betting, this piece from Scientific American warns about putting money down on a team...
* I read it in The New York Times
Lots of baseball in today’s Times. In the Play supplement, a slide show offers tips from stars like George Brett on how hitters keep their weight back, identify pitches, hit the other way, go f...
* This week in Sports Illustrated
The cover story (by Albert Chen) is the improbable tale of Josh Hamilton, now with the Texas Rangers. It wasn’t enough that he came back from the brink of oblivion; now he’s excelling in a...
* This Week in Sports Illustrated
The cover story by Tom Verducci features the crazy way the season is shaping up so far. Up is down and down is up as the Rays and Marlins — aong other surprise franchises — are reading the...
* Class in session
[This piece appears in the May/June issue of ForeWord Magazine.] Baseball books: Class is in session The notion that baseball is a metaphor for life has been around since man first took bat to ball. ...
* Privacy, please
My daughter — my high school freshman age daughter — started receiving Hooah!, a quarterly publication produced for the National Guard. This leads to a couple of question, the first of whi...
* Nailing it
Awhile back it was announced that Lenny Dylstra was working on a lifestyle magazine aimed at former professional athletes which would also purportedly help them manage their finances. Not so fast. Acc...
*This week’s Week
Two baseball related items in the May 2 issue of The Week: The Book List has mini-capsule reviews of four titles including But Didn’t We Have Fun?, The Greatest Game; We Would Have Played for No...
* America’s best magazine writer?
According to Jon Friedman on MarketWatch.com, it’s Sports Illustrated’s Gary Smith. Perhaps a secret to his success is that he maintains a distance from his peers. “I don’t rea...
* NY Daily News offers Yankee Stadium “collectibles”
The tabloid is including the six-part magazine supplement on the House That Ruth Built in its Sunday papers. They do something like this every so often to boost sales. Nice touch. I think it’s w...
* Announcement: Two baseball stories on HBO’s Real Sports
According to the HBO Web site, the second story of the April 15 edition of the hour-long sports magazine profiles Torii Hunter: Since entering “The Show” in 1997, Torii Hunter has made pla...
* How to succeed in business…
The Minneapolis-based Finance and Commerce reports on entrepreneurs John Bonnes and Tom Genrich, a couple of Davids trying to beat back the Goliaths (in the form of the Minnesota Twins) by hawking Gam...
* A new New Yorker baseball essay by Roger Angell
Forget the peanuts and popcorn. One of the nice things about the new season is the chance to read another New Yorker essay by Roger Angell. You can also listen to his comment here:...
* TIME for Torre
The newsweekly conducted a 10-question interview with the new Dodger skipper. The queries were submitted by Time’s readers. The piece also includes an audio....
The Sports Illustrated “Vault”: An early appraisal
Sports Illustrated launched it’s new digital archive earlier this week. After a quick glance, and realizing it’s still in beta, I have mixed feelings. Bear in mind I’m only talking a...