Tucson Mexican Baseball Fiesta
When the independent North American League started last season, I remember thinking that it seemed a bit ambitious. While the idea of merging leagues isn’t totally nuts*, a massive organization that stretched as far north as Canada, as far south as Texas, and as far west as California (with a special outlier way the hell out in Hawaii) was wild and crazy and just as likely to fail as it was to succeed. *After...
The other day on Twitter, MiLB.com promotions maven Ben Hill wondered how long it would be before a team attempted to cash in on the current wave of popularity being ridden by New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin, who has averaged 25.0 points and 9.5 assists in leading his team to wins in eight of its last nine games as of Monday evening. I don’t know if the State College Spikes are actually the...
The Bizarro Hall of Fame was a series I ran on my old blog, One More Dying Quail, in 2007. It consists of players who appeared on the Hall of Fame ballot but did not receive any votes. Mike suggested I bring those old posts over to Bus Leagues. I liked the idea, so for the next few months, we’ll re-run a couple each week in addition to our regular content. For the most...
This originally appeared at One More Dying Quail on November 5, 2006. With Tim Wakefield‘s retirement announcement yesterday, I thought it would be a good time to dust it off and bring it on over here. The only change from the original is the inclusion of links to Baseball-Reference player pages. You can thank the handy-dandy B-R Linker for that one. Following my most recent visit to Fenway Park, I decided to sit down...
You’ve gotta hand it to the Atlantic League’s newest franchise, the Sugar Land Skeeters: not only do they have a funny name and a great logo (must…buy…t-shirt…), they also have one of the best press release headline writers in all of professional baseball. This morning, an article popped into Google Reader, courtesy of Our Sports Central. The topic was the Skeeters. The headline was eye-catching: Major League Pitcher Liriano Joins Skeeters My first thought,...
At least a year ago, maybe longer, I had an idea: wouldn’t it be cool to go through every draft pick in major league history, pick the best player for each one, and create sort of an Ultimate Draft? (NFL.com did something like this a couple years ago, so maybe that’s where I got the idea from, but they only did the first round. I can’t find anyplace that’s done it for baseball.) There...
At least a year ago, maybe longer, I had an idea: wouldn’t it be cool to go through every draft pick in major league history, pick the best player for each one, and create sort of an Ultimate Draft? (NFL.com did something like this a couple years ago, so maybe that’s where I got the idea from, but they only did the first round. I can’t find anyplace that’s done it for baseball.) There...
The Memphis Redbirds announced yesterday that they have a special promotion planned for April 26, when the Omaha Storm Chasers come to town: the team’s first ever Social Media Night. Even with that game ten weeks away, several events have already been planned to fill in the general framework. See if you can spot the trend: The first 500 Twitter-using fans that enter the ballpark will be followed by the Redbirds account (@memphisredbirds). As...
At least a year ago, maybe longer, I had an idea: wouldn’t it be cool to go through every draft pick in major league history, pick the best player for each one, and create sort of an Ultimate Draft? (NFL.com did something like this a couple years ago, so maybe that’s where I got the idea from, but they only did the first round. I can’t find anyplace that’s done it for baseball.) There...
At least a year ago, maybe longer, I had an idea: wouldn’t it be cool to go through every draft pick in major league history, pick the best player for each one, and create sort of an Ultimate Draft? (NFL.com did something like this a couple years ago, so maybe that’s where I got the idea from, but they only did the first round. I can’t find anyplace that’s done it for baseball.) There...
