This article does my heart good for several reasons. One is, I left my heart in Oakland. Two is, because I loved Rickey Henderson as a young baseball fan and have deep respect for Jimmy Rollins.
The Coliseum is nothing new to Jimmy Rollins. He and his Phillies played an interleague series in Oakland in 2005. [...]

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Sorry, but this sounds ridiculous.
Cameron Hughes is his team’s biggest fan. Depending on his mood, he might pull off one of the multiple team jerseys he wears and spin it wildly in the air, scream at the top of his lungs, and exhort fellow supporters to do the same. Or he might pull an old [...]

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Here’s a book idea I think some people have been waiting for. Bridging the Statistical Gap  by  Eric J. Seidman (Statistically Speaking, Fangraphs, and Baseball Prospectus)  aims to serve as a fan’s first foray into sabermetrics.  I did a quick interview with Eric, asking him to explain said gap, talk about his own path in [...]

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Just to update our conversation about countryside baseball venues  here’s a shot of Lotte’s home away from home in Masan (about 45 minutes west of Busan), where the Giants took on SK last night. I don’t know much about Masan Baseball Stadium, except that it was used by pro Korean teams prior to the KBO.

I’ve [...]

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Since we’re talking about small, out-of-the-way stadiums in the Korean and Japanese countryside, I was curious what is Asia’s largest stadium. A bit of a surprise here — it’s Rungrado May Day Stadium in Pyongyang (capacity 150,000). It in fact has the largest stadium capacity in the world.
Actually, it’s not a huge surprise. Afterall, Kim [...]

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