More fun stuff from Wezen-ball. These come from the 1991 Sporting News Baseball Yearbook and the March 1991 Baseball Digest:
Chuck Knoblauch: “Switched from short to second in 1990 and made a positive adjustment. Showed consistency with the bat and good range in the field, strong arm. Steady improvement in making doubleplay. Has ability to steal [...]

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My intention was to do a simple, wholesome post linking to this Betel Nut Girls gallery (PG-13 FW) on Asian-sirens, but while browsing through the comments I came across this relic — a funny article from 1992 about a hot dog stand called Bikini Weenie in Yonkers, New York.
Are the bikini-clad hot dog vendors who [...]

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Join me on a trip back in time, to a time when personal computers and electronic mail were still relatively new, Roberto Kelly manned the outfield at Yankee Stadium, and Ozzie Guillen ran to his position, his mouth…closed.
The year is 1992 and the New York Times has just published an article called Personal Computers; fantasy [...]

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One of the great things about living in Korea is that each year, about a month before the baseball season starts, one of the major networks starts airing replays of “classic” games from the year previous. The games are shown in condensed form with no commercials. The announcers are Korean, though that’s often a blessing.
I [...]

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On April 6, 2004, in his first major league appearance with the San Diego Padres, Akinori Otsuka gave up an RBI single off the bat of Robin Ventura in the bottom of the ninth to pick up the loss in a 5-4 defeat at the hands of the Dodgers.
Over the next six weeks Otsuka would [...]

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Ed Note: I wrote this last week as a fun Nomo post-career-mortem piece not even entertaining the possibility he might be signed. Nothing fancy here, just a few obscure moments from a career I’d assumed would be ending any day. Maybe there’s more to come yet.
When you think of Hideo Nomo, you likely think [...]

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(Ed note: This is the first in what will be an occasional feature for which we’ll take  an article or an event and examine it in its  historical context. This first piece takes a look at a New York Times article from 2001 concerning Ichiro, on the eve of his first series vs. the [...]

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