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• * TWIBB: December 4

  
  Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf — Authority: 132
  This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, December 4. Title Rank General Baseball Americana: Treasures from the Library of Congress (565) 1 The Yankee Years , by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci (731) 2 The Machine: ...
  1 day ago

• Satchel, Toby Hyde, Mets Minors Tonight @ 7pm

  
  Mike Silva's New York Baseball Digest — Authority: 148
  Great hour of radio tonight. Author Larry Tye joins me to discuss his recent book “Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend.” We will discuss the great career of Satchel Paige who was estimated to have won 2,000 games and pitch 50 no hitters. In 1948 he joined the Cleveland Indians and helped them to a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Strat-O-Matic Honors Negro Leagues

  
  Fantasy Baseball Dugout — Authority: 123
  In a past post, we talked about the History of Fantasy Baseball and how Strat-O-Matic Baseball played a great role in the development of the game we know today.Nearly all middle-aged men baseball fans of today played Strat-O-Matic in their formative years.  It was how they learned about baseball statistics, ...
  4 weeks ago

• * TWIBB — November 6, 2009

  
  Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf — Authority: 132
  This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, November 6. Title Rank General Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America’s Pastime , by Mark Frost 1 The Bill James Handbook 2010 2 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Breaking The Geek Color Barrier [Nerds!]

  
  ipiko — Authority: 152
  Its been 62 years since Jackie Robinson integrated baseball. Now, finally, a little card with his attributes will integrate tabletop baseball simulations. Wouldnt it have been wonderful if all the great Negro Leaguers had been able to play in the majors? We cant change the past, but a close second would be black and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Breaking The Geek Color Barrier [Nerds!]

  
  Deadspin — Authority: 784
  Its been 62 years since Jackie Robinson integrated baseball. Now, finally, a little card with his attributes will integrate tabletop baseball simulations. Wouldnt it have been wonderful if all the great Negro Leaguers had been able to play in the majors? We cant change the past, but a close second would be black and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Hebrew National Strikes While The Sanchez Dog Is Hot…

  
  Sports Marketing and PR Roundup — Authority: 507
  Timing is everything, whether you are an official team partner or not. Take Conagra Foods Hebrew National Hot Dogs for example. The Kosher Dog, with a few professional sports ties but not many, made a very smart play this week to tie to the Jets, the NFL and poster boy quarterback Mark Sanchez by capitalizing on ...
  5 weeks ago

• Strat-O-Matic adds Negro League Ballplayers to its Game

  
  The Sly Oyster | culture, entertainment, liberal arts, shenanigans — Authority: 443
  When it comes to my nerdery, Strat-O-Matic hits several sweet spots: history, baseball, statistics and board games.  Invented in 1961, the dice rolling game is fun for settling those abstract questions like how would Ty Cobb hit against Roger Clemens in their primes, etc.  You can play historical teams against one ...
  5 weeks ago

• Sully Baseball Presents...A GUIDE TO “TALKING BASEBALL” FOR PEOPLE WHO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT BASEBALL

  
  SULLY BASEBALL — Authority: 418
  Ever feel left out when your friends start having an in depth baseball discussion? Ever wish you can participate, but don’t want to spend every spring, summer and fall studying the game to become an expert? Then follow my guide and learn my 10 simple phrases and you too can talk baseball. GENERAL BASEBALL ...
  6 weeks ago

• The Legend Behind the Plate

  
  Mike Silva's New York Baseball Digest — Authority: 148
  A group of journalism students at Duquesne University have put together a new documentary about Negro League star Josh Gibson. The documentary tells of Gibson’s legendary baseball accomplishments, one of them being whether he actually hit a home run out of the old Yankee Stadium in 1934, but it also tries to ...
  6 weeks ago

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