Friday, September 23 2011
The Bad News Statisticians: ‘Moneyball’
There’s an ugly and unromantic truth behind Bennett Miller’s baseball stats semi-comedy Moneyball that it acknowledges and then dances away from.
Thursday, July 15 2010
Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu
The Library of America Outdoes Itself with New Release of a Classic Updike Baseball Essay
Friday, September 4 2009
Sugar
Melancholic and pragmatic, Sugar is not a rousing Saturday night sports movie, but rather an intelligent and stirring representation of real life.
Wednesday, April 16 2008
Major League Baseball 2K8
MLB 2K8 has gone the innovation route, overhauling many standards of the baseball sim, making it an interesting experiment in what baseball games can be.
Wednesday, July 11 2007
Scoring from Second by Philip F. Deaver [Editor]
Even the very best baseball players convert only three or four of every ten at bats into base hits. Perhaps Deaver can find some sort of poetic consolation in that statistic.
Here’s the pitch: baseball in Israel (PopWire) [24.Apr.07]
Carrying Jackie’s Torch: The Players Who Integrated Baseball—and America (Features) [20.Apr.07]
MLB delivers solid hit with new Mosaic (PopWire) [18.Apr.07]
Yanks’ opener close to perfect on a day of many subplots (PopWire) [3.Apr.07]
