Category Archives: Maranvillains
Week 2 Thoughts
Not a good week so far. The Red Sox did take two against the Yankees. The rest of the news wasn’t as good. When he was on the team, I thought that Manny Ramirez made the Red Sox more interesting. … Continue reading
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Perfectly Unlikely: Why great pitchers like Roy Halladay don’t usually throw no-hitters.
Tim Marchman writes about Wednesday’s no-no. These lines caught my eye: Past the attention deservedly brought to a great pitcher who’s done his work in the relative obscurity of Toronto for a dozen years, then, the delightful thing about Halladay’s … Continue reading
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Bethlehem Speaks
A new, clearer, Free Darko Manifesto? This was an aside in an entry on Ray Lewis. There’s a misconception floating around that FD likes underdogs. We don’t. We like star players, weird players, and players who aren’t afraid to be … Continue reading
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Rob Neyer on R.A. Dickey
Sweetspot spot on knuckleballer. I have a soft spot on the fluttery pitch myself. I also like Tim Wakefield, who Rob likes to call Kid ’66. I assume that both Tim and Rob were born that year. Didn’t they used … Continue reading
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Pistol Pete
Reiser, not Maravich. W.C. Heinz takes a look at one of the top 100 ballplayers of all time. At least that’s where Ritter and Honig have him ranked. Who am I to say they were wrong? In any case, he … Continue reading
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Jeff Greenfield: The Black and White Truth about Basketball
I alluded to this essay when writing The Underground Cult Of Slugging. Here it is, in Google book form. It originally appeared in Esquire back in 1975. They had an issue dedicated to sports. It must have been anthologized elsewhere, … Continue reading
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Graceful and Compelling
I’m an ambitious lout. I once started a blog called the Zuvella Files. It was to include a short bio of every baseball player from the 80s starting at the end of the alphabet. We never made it to Todd … Continue reading
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Contemporary Sons of Rabbit Maranville
Back over the winter I asked a few baseball fans and writers about players they like to watch. I think of these guys as Maranvillains, but I’m not sure if that’s the best term anymore. Anyways, I suggested my famed … Continue reading
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Daisuke Matsuzaka: Anti-Maranvillain
I haven’t written about the concept of Maranvillains lately, but this Patrick Sullivan article brought to mind the antithesis of Rabbitt and his heirs: Dice-K. Also, just like so many other Red Sox fans, Daisuke drives me nuts. He works … Continue reading
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Trey Junkin, Eat Your Heart Out
Check out this play by Mark Buehrle. This is what I mean by Maranvillesque showmanship! I caught this highlight somewhere yesterday, but thanks go out to The Factory for alerting me to the clip.
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