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This has been a banner season for traveling bards of baseball. We’ve been enjoying reports from Tug Haines and anthem singer Joe Price, both of whom are touring vast swaths of the country in their summer travels. Craig Wieczorkiewicz is also putting some miles on his car this season, but he’s focusing exclusively on the Midwest League, the Class A home of various Snappers, Hot Rods, Kernels, Lug Nuts and Loons. He’s chronicling his journey...
Usually, I find some wacky or mad-impressive stat to focus on in this space. Today, however, we’re celebrating a truly impressive achievement. Nine days ago, two Great Lakes Loons teammates were headed to the ballpark for a special Mother’s Day game. Pitcher Elisaul Pimintel and second baseman Rafael Ynoa witnessed a motorcycle accident, and rushed immediately to administer first aid while another motorist called for help. The recent story on MiLB.com reported that the...
While we’re sure you’ve grown to love and cherish our higgledy-piggledy random posting style, this year we got together and decided to present minor-league baseball with a certain regard for structure. That means each guy got a classification or two to focus on throughout the season. That’s in addition to whatever higgledy-piggledy stuff each of us does, because we value our freedom. My focus will be on Low-A and Short-Season A ball. For starters,...
As you may know, one of your intrepid Bus Leaguers has the good fortune to write a little for the ESPN: the Magazine website. This week, minor league merchandise managed to sneak onto the pages for the mouthpiece of the Worldwide Leader, and we wanted to share it with you: Tina Gust is the Director of Licensing for Minor League Baseball. She has seen merchandise sales grow along with record-setting ballpark attendance over the...
It’s the winging of the baseball into the opposing team’s dugout that really makes this clip. Not that I condone such behavior. It just makes it stand out from your average baseball fight. Hat Tip to Gheorghe: The Blog for being generally awesome, and for airing this video first.
If there’s one thing I know about our readership, it is that you-all are very, very curious about Jay Bruce. As central HQ for Jay Bruce worship on the web, we’ve decided to help you out. This feature will tell you everything we can glean from the vast wine-dark seas of Internetia, so we can all anticipate what the pundits will be talking about when Jay is inevitably called up within the next week or...
OMDQ and I have been talking a lot about Jay Bruce recently, because he has been anointed as the best Bus Leaguer around by a couple of influential publications. I thought I’d hit YouTube and find the Zapruder film on the guy before he blows up in Cincy next year. First, here he is a couple of years ago in Dayton A ball. I admit I used this video just so you could get...
