Tag: baseball

Corked bats, juiced balls, and humidors

A new feature: the Willett of the Day

I’m proud of my name. My wife will tell you that I am somehow convinced that all Willetts we run across must be relatives of mine. I realize that’s probably stretching it a bit, but I was told as a child that some genealogical researcher or other had made pretty much that claim, with a …

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A new feature: the Willett of the Day

I’m proud of my name. My wife will tell you that I am somehow convinced that all Willetts we run across must be relatives of mine. I realize that’s probably stretching it a bit, but I was told as a child that some genealogical researcher or other had made pretty much that claim, with a …

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Take me out of the ballgame

I have a confession to make: although born in the United States, I’m lousy at that country’s national pastime. I hit not, neither do I catch. If I had a dollar for every fly ball I dropped as kid, I could buy…well, a baseball glove, probably, but what would be the point? So this week …

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Photo of the Day that was Actually Taken Some Time Ago: Over the Plate

A Baltimore Oriole watches the ball come over the plate in a game against Toronto on a sunny Sunday in August in the Skydome (er, Rogers Place…whatever). More photos here.

Of bats and balls

The Subway Series is not, as a non-sports-fan might be forgiven for thinking, an exciting new lineup of sandwiches from a popular restaurant chain. It is, instead, this year’s World Series of baseball between the New York Yankees and the New York Mets, and even if you’re not interested in watching New Yorkers battle each …

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Home runs

It’s World Series time again, and it’s shaping up to be an exciting one–but for me, nothing can equal the excitement of the 1909 Series. I remember it like it was yesterday. The smell of the grass, the roar of the crowd, as I made my way to the mound to start for the Detroit …

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Baseball

I’m lousy at baseball. Fly balls fly right over me, line drives make me duck, and I can’t run the bases worth a darn–but that’s all right, since I seldom hit the ball. So to write this column about the science of pitching, I turned to an expert: Robert K. Adair, Sterling Professor of Physics …

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The science of pitching

I’m lousy at baseball. Fly balls fly right over me, line drives make me duck, and I can’t run the bases worth a darn–but that’s all right, since I seldom hit the ball. So to write this column about the science of pitching, I turned to an expert: Robert K. Adair, Sterling Professor of Physics …

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