I’ve managed to come down pretty decisively on one side of most of the sports arguments of my day (I’m against municipal levies to pay for ballparks; I don’t mind the designated hitter), but this one still gets me into ferocious internal arguments with myowndamnself. Should a fan ever renounce his love for his team? For [...]
Archive for July 30th, 2009
30 Jul
Perfect Pitchers Get All The Glory, While Their Catchers Get None
On the heels of yesterday’s post about Felix Cespedes’s near-perfect game, I got an email from a fellow writer that made me do some thinking about perfect games. One of the things I found myself wondering: who were the catchers for each of the eighteen perfect games in major league history? This list is taken [...]
30 Jul
And Suddenly, My Childhood Comes Rushing Back
I went to the West Virginia Power’s web site tonight to see if Charleston could somehow manage to salvage something from this four game series (West Virginia won the first game on a walkoff homer, the second on a combined no-hitter, and the third on a combined one-hitter) – they did, winning 8-7 despite nearly [...]
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