BY MARC MATURO Rockland County Times» sports reporter Marc A. Maturo is a lifetime honorary member
of the Baseball Writers Association of America.
Then, after I fax my ballot to the secretary
of the Baseball Writers» Association of America, I'll begin contemplating the 2014, 2015 and 2016 Hall of Fame ballots.
Mickey Mantle is beloved by most
of the baseball writers of Terence Moore's generation.
Even Hank Aaron, the alltime home run king, couldn't escape the politics
of the baseball writers when his name first appeared on the ballot, in 1982.
In fact, a lot
of baseball writers have actively worked to eliminate that era from the history books.
Not exact matches
Could God use modern
writers of fiction, or perhaps even
baseball players, much as he used the Assyrians in Isaiah's day, to communicate his truth to us?
I'd like to think that I would have been one
of the enlightened champions
of Robinson's rightful place in Major League
Baseball, that if I were a
writer back then, my typewriter would have spit out all sorts
of fiery missives in support
of him.
Hello, it is me again, the professional
baseball writer who is forced to write about Tim Tebow playing
baseball because
of specific language contained within my contract.
I'm just a
baseball writer, and you're the most powerful agents in
baseball, so this probably doesn't make a lot
of sense to you.
Daniel Murphy, Corey Seager, and Kris Bryant are finalists for the National League Most Valuable Player Award, announced on Monday by the
Baseball Writers» Association
of America, with Mike Trout, Jose Altuve, and Mookie Betts the finalists in the American League.
The
Baseball Writers Association
of America (BBWAA) failed to elect anyone to the new
Baseball Hall
of Fame class for the first...
I've given up thinking Matheny's on field blunders are going to change DeWitt's mind, but siphoning off a little bit too much
of that Scruge McDuck swimming pool cash might get him to notice what literally every national (and local PD)
baseball writer has been saying for years; Mike dumb.
The
Baseball Writers Association
of America will announce the results
of the 2015 Hall
of Fame vote on Tuesday afternoon at 2 pm eastern.
The
Baseball Writers Association
of America — also known as the BBWAA — released the 2016 Hall
of Fame ballot on Monday.
«Now,» ventured a Boston Globe
writer the other day, a bit hyperbolically, «if the Red Sox can keep the highest - paid player in
baseball out
of prison, he might be on his way to surpassing feats
of 1986 and last season.»
The Cleveland
baseball writers voted him Man
of the Year last season; this spring his Indian teammates picked him for the Golden Tomahawk Award, which honors a player's «good sportsmanship and contribution to
baseball on and off the field.»
It's a supermajority
of writers who all agree that player is a necessary part
of baseball lore.
I don't really blame the
Baseball Writers Association
of America.
Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines and Ivan Rodriguez got the ultimate call on Wednesday, voted into the National
Baseball Hall
of Fame by the
Baseball Writers Association
of America.
Tom Verducci is Sports Illustrated's senior
baseball writer and a three - time National Sportswriter
of the Year (2014, 2015 and 2016).
Of course, what people mostly ask about is Rader's far - different public persona: Doug Rader, the zany, flaky Houston Astro third baseman who sat on a birthday cake in the clubhouse; Doug Rader, the madman in Jim Bouton's book Ball Four who advised kids to eat baseball cards to ingest all the information printed on them; Doug Rader, the raging tyrant - manager of the Texas Rangers who was fired after ferocious confrontations with players and writer
Of course, what people mostly ask about is Rader's far - different public persona: Doug Rader, the zany, flaky Houston Astro third baseman who sat on a birthday cake in the clubhouse; Doug Rader, the madman in Jim Bouton's book Ball Four who advised kids to eat
baseball cards to ingest all the information printed on them; Doug Rader, the raging tyrant - manager
of the Texas Rangers who was fired after ferocious confrontations with players and writer
of the Texas Rangers who was fired after ferocious confrontations with players and
writers.
And if 75 percent
of the
writers who covered
baseball believe this, Vizquel should be in the Hall
of Fame.
Barry Larkin, a 12 - time All - Star and lifelong Cincinnati Red, was the only player on the 2012 ballot voted into the
Baseball Hall
of Fame by the
Baseball Writers» Association
of America.
Like you, I continue to read columns written by
baseball writers about the Hall
of Fame and steroids.
Barry Larkin, the lifetime Cincinnati Reds shortstop and 12 - time All - Star, was voted into the
Baseball Hall
of Fame on Monday, securing 86 %
of the vote from the
Baseball Writer's Association
of America.
One
of the sources, free - lance
writer Allen Barra, a regular contributor to the New York City weekly The Village Voice who is writing a book with Marvin Miller, the former head
of the Major League
Baseball Players Association, told SI that early in 1985 he spent a few days with Winfield in Minneapolis while preparing a story for Sports Fitness magazine.
Next year, the hundreds
of ballots
of voting
Baseball Writers Association
of America members will be revealed, casting anonymity aside in favor
of transparency.
Award - winning
writer John Powers debuts OSV Distinguished Speakers Series STURBRIDGE, Mass. (Oct. 25, 2012): Sportswriter John Powers, co-author
of the 100th anniversary commemorative book, Fenway Park: The Coolest, Cruelest and Longest Running Major League
Baseball Stadium in America, will speak in the Stephen M. Brewer Theater at Old Sturbridge Village on Thursday, Nov. 8, launching the...
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Writer - directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are the masters
of the anti-hero, having done so before in Half Nelson (which earned Ryan Gosling an Oscar nomination), about a crack - addicted history teacher and Sugar, about a minor league
baseball player.
Similarly, the efforts
of Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian (both previous winners) to make
baseball statisticians» math - jizzing sound as clever as the pentateuch
of Saint Benjamin Hecht will be regarded by fellow
writers as the screenwriters» equivalent
of striking paydirt with a Tumblr blog showcasing stock photos
of smiling women eating salad.
He seems to prefer to work with the stories that arise from real life and made
baseball statistics intriguing in Moneyball, and cold - blooded killers and one off - kilter
writer a fascinating look at two sides
of humanity in Capote.
cries Abby, a mother who's just been hit on the head by her son's
baseball in the opening scene
of writer - director Stacie Passon's new film, «Concussion.»
Dan Fost is a San Francisco — based freelance
writer and the author
of a book about
baseball called Giants Past and Present, from MVP press.
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I love the careful, almost photographic style
of illustrator (and now
writer) Kadir Nelson and was thrilled to hear that he was working on a history
of Negro League
baseball for young readers.
The Art
of Fielding by Chad Harbach This remarkable coming -
of - age story, set at a New England college during an extraordinary
baseball season, marks Harbach as a
writer to watch.
I want to live in a world... where «the reading public» (regardless
of the inside -
baseball interferences
of literary professionals) consumes, likes, and engages with many different kinds
of literary nourishment; and where
writers, teachers, and critics trust and even expect readers to do so.
I think
writers, wannabe -
writers, agents, and publishing industry pros spend so much time focusing on inside
baseball, and associating with others who focus on it, that they forget that most
of the «regular folk» out there (i.e., the book buying public) don't have a clue who the players are behind the scenes.
About Blog I'm a cookbook author, foodie blogger,
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of four who loves holidays, family traditions, Red Sox
baseball, shopping and reality TV.
About Blog
Baseball Think Factory is dedicated to providing freely accessible, engaging, rigorous, and entertaining baseball content to a wide variety of baseball fans, and to providing new outlets and opportunities for baseball analysts, fans, and
Baseball Think Factory is dedicated to providing freely accessible, engaging, rigorous, and entertaining
baseball content to a wide variety of baseball fans, and to providing new outlets and opportunities for baseball analysts, fans, and
baseball content to a wide variety
of baseball fans, and to providing new outlets and opportunities for baseball analysts, fans, and
baseball fans, and to providing new outlets and opportunities for
baseball analysts, fans, and
baseball analysts, fans, and
writers.
About Blog
Baseball Think Factory is dedicated to providing freely accessible, engaging, rigorous, and entertaining baseball content to a wide variety of baseball fans, and to providing new outlets and opportunities for baseball analysts, fans, and
Baseball Think Factory is dedicated to providing freely accessible, engaging, rigorous, and entertaining
baseball content to a wide variety of baseball fans, and to providing new outlets and opportunities for baseball analysts, fans, and
baseball content to a wide variety
of baseball fans, and to providing new outlets and opportunities for baseball analysts, fans, and
baseball fans, and to providing new outlets and opportunities for
baseball analysts, fans, and
baseball analysts, fans, and
writers.
About Blog I'm a cookbook author, foodie blogger,
writer, mom
of four who loves holidays, family traditions, Red Sox
baseball, shopping and reality TV.
The entire room
of writers cringed as our character shoved a
baseball bat into a guys mouth and then slammed his head into the floor.
Diamonds are Forever: Artists and
Writers on
Baseball, New York State Museum, Albany, NY; Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL; Museum
of Art and History, San Juan, PR; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti, OH; Utah Museum
of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT; Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Baltimore Museum
of Art, Baltimore, MD; Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; New York Public, New York, NY
Diamonds are Forever: Artists and
Writers on
Baseball, New York State Museum, Albany, NY and traveling exhibition: Norton Gallery
of Are, West Palm Beach, FL; Museum
of Art and History, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Contemporary Arts center, Cincinnati, OH; Utah Museum
of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City UT; Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston, TX,; Baltimore Museum
of Art, MD; Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Oakland Museum
of Art, CA; New York Public Library, New York, NY; The Institute
of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; San Diego Museum
of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, NC; The Skydome, Toronto, Canada; Yurakucho Art Forum / Seibu Department Store, Tokyo, Japan; The
American
writer Paul Auster (b. 1947) tells the story
of how striking out on an autograph from a legendary
baseball player led him to become a
writer.
Diamonds are Forever: Artists and
Writers on
Baseball, New York State Museum, Albany, NY; traveled to Norton Gallery
of Are, West Palm Beach, FL; Museum
of Art and History, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Utah Museum
of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT; Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Baltimore Museum
of Art, MD; Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Oakland Museum
of Art, Oakland, CA; New York Public Library, New York, NY; The Institute
of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; San Diego Museum
of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, NC; The Skydome, Toronto, Canada; Yurakucho Art Forum / Seibu Department Store, Tokyo, Japan; The Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan; Denver Art Museum / Downtown Branch, Denver, CO; Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ; Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
As an example
of how these considerations play out, see the following blog post in which the
writer explains why he designed his own website (CSS Tricks) out to 980 pixels wide, but would redesign an e-commerce site selling
baseball equipment to low - tech users to accommodate 800x600 screens (based on data obtained from Google Analytics showing that over 13 %
of visitors to that e-commerce site use 800 x 600 screens).