mlb posted a video today about the sox prospects that participated in the arizona fall league this year. topics addressed: some portland love and the warm/fanatic embrace of red sox nation. not addressed: the propensity for our minor leaguers to grow gross ass moustaches. (WHY, JOSH, WHY?) clay's heartbreaking pissed-at-himself face also makes ( Read more... )

some pre-AAGPBL images of women's baseball teams and players that i have come across lately. jeez, i hope you guys don't get sick of me flooding you with these findings.

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as some of you know, i am currently working on researching and gathering material for an eventual paper on the ways in which tin pan alley period songs about baseball reflected popular discourses on the changing images and roles of women in the progressive era (1890-1920). and you will probably be hearing about it a lot in the coming months the ( Read more... )

this is how the scottsdale scorpions game just ended:


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kevin millar does not heart chad bradford, and this show just keeps getting better!

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also i cannot stop listening to this over and over and over again. it makes waking up in the morning a joy. by far my new favorite baseball related songs. any technical whiz know how i could get these downloaded on to my computer so i can listen to them even ( Read more... )

so i spent the better part of today in bed following winter league baseball. it's amazing what desperation the combination of being sick and being sick off the off-season already will do to me. let's just say multiple games on gameday and multiple streaming radio spanish language broadcasts of games in venezuela and puerto rico. simultaneously. ( Read more... )

so sicky mcsicksick just popping in to say hello in between twelve hour bouts of slumber that correspond to nobody's damn clock and even longer bouts of barfing and other things that i'll keep to myself. ugh. i've been rewatching homicide: life on the streets season 4 for roughly the millionth time since i lost seasons 3 and 5 while moving to ( Read more... )

i've been doing a lot of digging after my last post and getting super excited about old baseball songs, and the various notions of gender and fandom found in them. i think i've found a new research project and essay topic for the winter ( Read more... )

so my friend michelle just e-mailed me this image:


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