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Notes toward a Supreme Fiction: My Sport Could Beat up Your Sport

As this is the 500th blog generated by the Right Off the Bat project, in the spirit of collegial, international, and inter-sport collaboration, we thought we’d put our heads together (ouch) in doing...

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Baseball and African-American Life

Is baseball different from the other sports?Gerald Early’s meandering yet compellingly honest essay, “Baseball and African American Life”, asks, “Why have Negroes not truly accepted baseball?” The...

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Little Red Scooter

Herb Score: one of the great Might Have Beens in baseball historyTo Martin’s Broad Agonistes, I note two Major League Baseball parallels: and our Right off the Bat is thus chockablock, many being...

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Priceless

Yogi Berra came out of retirement as an official player-coach of the New York Mets in 1965, teaming with pitcher-coach Warren Spahn to form “a dream battery” as the team yearbook had it.As the 2015...

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Getting All Political, but Not What You May Think

Mapmaker bites dog: the Tampa Bay Rays play the Cuban National Team For several dozen reasons, President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba on the first day of spring 2016 is historic. We at Right off the...

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Home-run Boom in June

Mickey Mantle challenging John Glenn et al, May 1963: They don’t make ’em like this anymore…or do they? What gives? Has it something to do with $$$? Yuh think? Elias Sports Bureau registers 1,101 home...

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Streaking

Popular performance art in the heyday of Bobby Riggs: This type of streaker perdures. Like the proverbial first-small-step of the longest journey, record-MLB streaks begin innocently enough. Each...

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Tab, Joe, Joe, and Joe

The original Mike Trout: Joe Hardy played by the late Tab Hunter The synchronicity of nostalgia. Events that rhyme in time. A circling of the sun. The revolution of the cold-blooded moon. Fantasy and...

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Good-bye, Mel

A class act One of my (Evander) heroes, Mel Stottlemyre, is gone. With a 2.97 ERA and possessor of one of the great sinker balls, Mel was headed for the Baseball Hall of Fame if not for shoulder...

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Joe DiMaggio’s Second-longest Hitting Streak at 70 Years

Joe DiMaggio barnstorms (and instructs) in Japan following the 1950 World Series. As I (Evander) write this on July 16, today is 79 years since Joe DiMaggio’s hitting streak reached its 56th and final...

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