Pitchrs & Poets

fuckyeahtattoos: Eastbound and Down tattoo by Charles “Dag”...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:21:08 -0700

Eastbound and Down tattoo by Charles “Dag” Caron @ Laughing Buddha Tattoo in Seattle, Wa

#Washington #WA #Seattle #LaughingBuddhaTattoo #Charles Caron #Dag

Chicago Century: Chicago--June 14, 1913

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:05:02 -0700

Chicago Century: Chicago--June 14, 1913:

One hundred years back in Chicago baseball history, complete with violence, weird mascots and mini flags.

chicagocentury:

Cubs third baseman Heine Zimmerman breaks the arm of Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Tex Erwin while trying to steal home. Zimmerman was out to end the fourth inning.

The Cubs defeat the Dodgers 5-1 with only three hits. Approximately 8,000 attend the game at West Side Park (Taylor and Wolcott),…

olddetroit: Detroit Tigers Yearbook, 1964 edition.

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:26:28 -0700

olddetroit:

Detroit Tigers Yearbook, 1964 edition.

photo collage by Iuri Kothe on Flickr

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:11:53 -0700

photo collage by Iuri Kothe on Flickr

"The sailors come ashore Out of their hollow ships, Mild-looking middle class boys Who read the comic..."

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:42:00 -0700

“The sailors come ashore
Out of their hollow ships,
Mild-looking middle class boys
Who read the comic strips;
One baseball game is more
To them than fifty Troys.”

- Auden, from “Fleet Visit.”

marycaple: Junction City, 1896

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:25:37 -0700

marycaple:

Junction City, 1896

vintagesportspictures: At a Korean baseball game (1945)

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 12:25:39 -0700

vintagesportspictures:

At a Korean baseball game (1945)

Zen Baseball: The Art of The Hitting

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 08:08:42 -0700

Zen Baseball: The Art of The Hitting:

zenbaseball:

As I watch this practitioner of hitsuzendo (“the art of the brush”) prepare his body to make calligraphy, I think of the great hitters preparing to stand at the plate. Ichiro’s present-but-absent arm raise and glance into the middle distance, Nomar Garciaparra’s checking and tapping and…

Remembering 10-Cent Beer Night by Paul Jackson

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 07:00:21 -0700

Remembering 10-Cent Beer Night by Paul Jackson:

On the anniversary of the Indians’ infamous 10-Cent Beer Night, Page 2 recalls the carnage.

I’m a day late, but on the near-anniversary of 10-Cent Beer Night, please enjoy a wonderful tale of drunken chaos written by my friend Paul Jackson. - ted

mooreja01: Present System Of Batting Records Grossly...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 22:40:45 -0700

mooreja01:

Present System Of Batting Records Grossly Misleading

Scorebook, from the Sketchbook of Designer Isaac Tobin, a senior...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 11:14:46 -0700

Scorebook, from the Sketchbook of Designer Isaac Tobin, a senior designer at the University of Chicago Press.

http://www.isaactobin.com

One Year

Wed, 29 May 2013 15:08:37 -0700

Today marks exactly one year since P&P shut down as a regular blog and switched to exclusively Paul Sorrento-supervised Tumblr format.

On the occasion, here are some thoughts from Eric on letting go (ever-so-slightly) of baseball obsession that you can read at The Classical

oldtimefamilybaseball: Over the weekend, after Matt Garza and...

Wed, 29 May 2013 06:43:09 -0700

oldtimefamilybaseball:

Over the weekend, after Matt Garza and Johnny Cueto got into a spat, Dusty Baker stepped in and let everyone know that he wished baseball still had space for backroom boxing matches. Said Baker:

“I just wish, just put them in a room, let them box and let it be over with, know what I mean? I always said this. Let it be like hockey. Let them fight, somebody hits the ground and then it’ll be over with. I’m serious about that. I come from a different school. Guys didn’t talk as much. You just did it.”

Turns out, Baker has a lot of things he wishes would turn up on the ballfield. All to make the sport tougher. And cooler.

thejonlee: Get on it MTV Cribs

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:15:37 -0700

thejonlee:

Get on it MTV Cribs

flipflopflyball: My new thing for Getting Blanked: what if...

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:42:23 -0700

flipflopflyball:

My new thing for Getting Blanked: what if baseball had five bases? Link.

this is really really important

ericnus: I wrote a long reported essay about Hector Espino,...

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:28:41 -0700

ericnus:

I wrote a long reported essay about Hector Espino, Mexico’s greatest baseball player of all time and a fascinating, proud man. I hope you check it out over at SBNation Longform.

The Unknown Slugger.

satchel

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:48:35 -0700

satchel

"May 17, 2008 – Chan Ho Park, Hong-Chih Kuo and Takashi Saito are the first trio from different Asian..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:53:26 -0700

“May 17, 2008 – Chan Ho Park, Hong-Chih Kuo and Takashi Saito are the first trio from different Asian countries to pitch all nine innings of a Major League game.”

- Dodger history blog

Basia Bulat covers Bruce Springsteen

Thu, 16 May 2013 07:41:32 -0700

Basia Bulat covers Bruce Springsteen

Randy Bass and the Colonel's Curse, from Tofugu

Wed, 15 May 2013 07:43:00 -0700

from a Tofugu article on Sadaharu Oh:

…Randy Bass is probably one of the most accomplished American players to play in the NPL. Many people credit him for turning the Hanshin Tigers around and winning the 1985 Japan Series. Bass holds the highest Japanese batting average of .389, winner of four consecutive batting titles, and consecutive Triple Crowns.

His accomplishments to the Hanshin Tigers and Japanese baseball is so great that many speak of him in the same breath as God and Buddha.

There is another thing he is famous for: the Colonel Sanders Curse. Koichi has written up a good overview of the curse, so check it out. Basically, after the 1985 series win, fans gathered around the gross Dotonbori canal to celebrate.

Some of the fans celebrated by naming off the team roster and anyone that remotely looked like the named player had to jump into the dirty canal. Unfortunately, when Bass’ name came up, there was no one present that looked like him. Darn the homogeneity population!

So what a better compromise than to toss the statue of Colonel Sanders from the nearby Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. Both Bass and Sanders are white and got the beard thing going, so I suppose it made sense. This action obviously bit the Hanshin fans in the arse. What resulted was being the worst team in the league for the next 18 years. Karma can do weird things. Kids, remember to leave the Colonel alone!…