Was in Malaprops, a cool bookstore in Asheville NC last night and saw BIG FAN [autographed copy] prominently displayed! There was an author event [Katharine Wilkinson] with about 100 people in attendance---that's big time! Book is Climate Wayfinding. Dr. Wilkinson was tie-less but otherwise nicely attired.
How cool is that box score subscription. Takes me back to my childhood. Also love seeing these statistical leaders in each league. I do remember that on Sundays the paper is pretty much listed every regular player batting average and pitcher by ERA I think. I spent a lot of Sundays perusing those long lists.
But it also makes me appreciate the extra added info you can see in the newer box scores : OBP; SLG etc.
Kudos and congrats for mentions in TWO columns today - one in the New York Times and another in Financial Times. I plugged "The Baseball 100" and this here blog in the comment section in the FT column.
I listened to the Other 51 today. Really enjoyed it. One question was not asked. How did you and Mike meet? I heard you had a breakfast together but how did you meet before going to breakfast?
I'm going to give boxscore.email a try. I suspect what will end up happening is I'll just delete the e-mails without looking at them because I am so out of the habit of looking at them.
In the 1990's, I used to grab the printed box scores every day and enter my fantasy baseball players stats, and do the same for my opponent. This was pre-online fantasy baseball days, so we couldn't get up-to-the minute fantasy results - we had to wait for the commissioner to calculate and send out each week.
Then the internet started coming around and would provide box scores, but it was always such a hassle. Most sites would require me to click each game in order to get to the box score, and you have to scroll forever just to find everything. Compared to the LA Times, which would usually have all of the box scores on a single page. So much easier to just scan a single page than to have to click around a million times to find anything.
This boxscore.email site solves that problem! Everything on a single page, in compressed format. So cool.
Yeah, I was one of those commissioners in the 80s. USA Today had all the AL stats on Tuesday, NL on Wednesday. I ran an NL league, so each Wednesday I'd buy USA Today and hand-enter the stats into an early-model spreadsheet (Multiplan?) I'd set up on my first-generation Macintosh. Then I'd print each member's results and the overall standings on a dot matrix printer, stick them into envelopes and mail them out. Good times.
Yeah, I actually had to look that up, I'd forgotten the name too. First spreadsheet I ever used, it came with the first Mac, which my then-wife and I were able to buy in 1984 only because Apple offered them at a steep discount to grad students. So of course I immediately put it to good use running a Rotisserie League.
I first used VisiCalc at work on a PC. I think that was the very first commercial spreadsheet. I was an accountant and after my first use- a rolling 12 month cash flow statement- I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. Not too long after that Lotus 1-2-3 came out and that basically put VisiCalc out of business. I too bought an original Mac with the steep student discount. Multiplan was the only spreadsheet available for the Mac, if I remember correctly. Kept waiting for Lotus to come out for the Mac. It took a long time and very closely thereafter Excel came out. And soon Lotus was on the way out.
I buy a cap at each park - MLB and MiLB - in which I attend a game. (With the obvious exception of the Yankees. I'm not *that* evil.) I root for one team but am a fan of the game. And part of the fun is sitting in the stands cheering along with the hometown faithful.
I'm sitting in my home office right now wearing the Pride version of the West Michigan (Grand Rapids) Whitecaps cap that I picked up two years ago. I like the cap which is no longer available on the website at least. But I should have also picked up their alternate caps for the Beer City Bung Hammers while I was there. Since Kid #2 lives there, I am in town reasonable often, but that was my only trip to the park.
From a character in the comic strip "Dustin" yesterday: "With all the information streaming across screens, what if there was a service that verified things, and assembled it so you could print it out on paper to read without popup ads and notifications?"
Was in Malaprops, a cool bookstore in Asheville NC last night and saw BIG FAN [autographed copy] prominently displayed! There was an author event [Katharine Wilkinson] with about 100 people in attendance---that's big time! Book is Climate Wayfinding. Dr. Wilkinson was tie-less but otherwise nicely attired.
I might have to get in on that box score subscription.
How cool is that box score subscription. Takes me back to my childhood. Also love seeing these statistical leaders in each league. I do remember that on Sundays the paper is pretty much listed every regular player batting average and pitcher by ERA I think. I spent a lot of Sundays perusing those long lists.
But it also makes me appreciate the extra added info you can see in the newer box scores : OBP; SLG etc.
Joe -
Kudos and congrats for mentions in TWO columns today - one in the New York Times and another in Financial Times. I plugged "The Baseball 100" and this here blog in the comment section in the FT column.
Love the boxscore thing. The only thing I'd change is games that end after midnight et shouldn't get the score. Instead they read like:
Los Angeles at San Diego, late
I completely forgot about that!
Can’t wait to see you tonight at Strand! Very Excited!
I listened to the Other 51 today. Really enjoyed it. One question was not asked. How did you and Mike meet? I heard you had a breakfast together but how did you meet before going to breakfast?
Joe wrote about how he met Mike in a post a couple of months ago to announce the Big Fan tour. Here is the link: https://www.joeposnanski.com/p/announcing-the-big-fan-tour
Good luck, Joe! Go get 'em!
Ooooh, Boxscore is lovely. I did NOT know this existed.
I'm going to give boxscore.email a try. I suspect what will end up happening is I'll just delete the e-mails without looking at them because I am so out of the habit of looking at them.
In the 1990's, I used to grab the printed box scores every day and enter my fantasy baseball players stats, and do the same for my opponent. This was pre-online fantasy baseball days, so we couldn't get up-to-the minute fantasy results - we had to wait for the commissioner to calculate and send out each week.
Then the internet started coming around and would provide box scores, but it was always such a hassle. Most sites would require me to click each game in order to get to the box score, and you have to scroll forever just to find everything. Compared to the LA Times, which would usually have all of the box scores on a single page. So much easier to just scan a single page than to have to click around a million times to find anything.
This boxscore.email site solves that problem! Everything on a single page, in compressed format. So cool.
Yeah, I was one of those commissioners in the 80s. USA Today had all the AL stats on Tuesday, NL on Wednesday. I ran an NL league, so each Wednesday I'd buy USA Today and hand-enter the stats into an early-model spreadsheet (Multiplan?) I'd set up on my first-generation Macintosh. Then I'd print each member's results and the overall standings on a dot matrix printer, stick them into envelopes and mail them out. Good times.
Multi-plan! Haven’t heard or thought about that software in years, actually decades.
Yeah, I actually had to look that up, I'd forgotten the name too. First spreadsheet I ever used, it came with the first Mac, which my then-wife and I were able to buy in 1984 only because Apple offered them at a steep discount to grad students. So of course I immediately put it to good use running a Rotisserie League.
I first used VisiCalc at work on a PC. I think that was the very first commercial spreadsheet. I was an accountant and after my first use- a rolling 12 month cash flow statement- I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. Not too long after that Lotus 1-2-3 came out and that basically put VisiCalc out of business. I too bought an original Mac with the steep student discount. Multiplan was the only spreadsheet available for the Mac, if I remember correctly. Kept waiting for Lotus to come out for the Mac. It took a long time and very closely thereafter Excel came out. And soon Lotus was on the way out.
Wear the Cleveland hat everywhere. Don’t pander. Be a fan.
I buy a cap at each park - MLB and MiLB - in which I attend a game. (With the obvious exception of the Yankees. I'm not *that* evil.) I root for one team but am a fan of the game. And part of the fun is sitting in the stands cheering along with the hometown faithful.
The MiLB caps must be fantastic. I've almost ordered a few on line, but would much rather buy them at the park.
I'm sitting in my home office right now wearing the Pride version of the West Michigan (Grand Rapids) Whitecaps cap that I picked up two years ago. I like the cap which is no longer available on the website at least. But I should have also picked up their alternate caps for the Beer City Bung Hammers while I was there. Since Kid #2 lives there, I am in town reasonable often, but that was my only trip to the park.
Bung Hammers?
Yep.
https://whitecaps.milbstore.com/collections/all-caps/products/beer-city-bung-hammers-black-fitted-cap-west-michigan-whitecaps
AWESOME!
From a character in the comic strip "Dustin" yesterday: "With all the information streaming across screens, what if there was a service that verified things, and assembled it so you could print it out on paper to read without popup ads and notifications?"
Comics - another thing I lost when newspapers went kaput.
Wow, Boxscore is so cool! Pleasantly surprised to see that Michael Soroka a) is still in the league and b) is top 5 in wins!
Chicago Sun-Times still has all the box scores, every day
Which Cleveland cap? And why that one out of all the available caps?
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Thanks for the tip!
Ditto! The 70s / 80s kid in me loves it.
And me….now if he could just include Joe Falls column from the Detroit Free Press…..