Plate Discipline: Musings from a Sports Bar
April 23, 2010 by Mark Ahrens
Filed under Baseball Writing, Statistics and Analysis
On a recent business trip to Orlando, I found myself sitting in a sports bar watching the game between the Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies. The TV sound was down which was pretty well moot since everybody’s conversation was wafting throughout the room (in particular, the kvetching of one Slappy the Boor, but I won’t go [...]
Bryce Harper: 2010 #1 Draft Pick?
March 28, 2010 by Mark Ahrens
Filed under Baseball Writing, New Media
Current baseball writers are more than likely to ply their trade in one of today’s new media–websites, blogs, or even on Twitter. So BooksonBaseball’s tagline — Paying homage to the written word about America’s pastime–is still being honored, even if we don’t always talk just about books.
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Let’s face it, we baseball junkies can’t seem to get [...]
