so do any of you play or follow vintage base ball?

there has been discussion at my new workplace about fielding a team.

and to keep things at least tangential to topic, here is an interesting read:

Rare Sport for Connoisseurs: How Baseball was Born in Brooklyn

27 July, 2009
Aberdeen Ironbirds v. Brooklyn Cyclones
Keyspan Park, Coney Island, Brooklyn NY


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I found this article by Adam Kilgore of the Boston Globe pretty interesting. It's not super in depth, but still an interesting take on how things have changed for players coming to the MLB from Japan. It looks at the journey through the lens of two new Red Sox pitchers, Takashi Saito who was acquired from the Dodgers, and Junichi Tazawa, who the ( Read more... )

i've been lurking here for a while, and i figured i might as well go ahead and do this...

Name: e. (i'm slightly paranoid about real name and internet, so hopefully first initial is satisfactory)
Location: currently enemy territory (a.k.a. new york), but originally from southern rhode island.
Age: 24
Birthday: 29 november
Favorite team(s): ( Read more... )