Monthly Archives: February 2013

Blog Dealings for Feb. 18, 2013

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Okay, a few new things here on the blog:

  • The Continuum Baseball Rankings now have their own page at the top of the main page.
  • Another WBC update will be coming later today. If you missed the earlier one, go here.
  • Also, the aforementioned Continuum Baseball Rankings will be updated either today or tomorrow with some of the results of the warm-up games being played around the world in the lead-up to the World Baseball Classic.
  • Finally, don’t forget that Joe Connor’s WBC Guide remains on sale and that the Continuum is also taking donations in the Tip Jar.

Thank you for coming to the Baseball Continuum, tell your friends and come again!

Picture of the Day: Say Cheese

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From the Library of Congress Flickr feed, here’s a public domain picture of Germany Schaefer hard at work taking photos for what are probably future pictures of the day.

Early WBC news for Feb. 18, 2013

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See today’s early World Baseball Classic news below the jump:

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Random Video of the Undetermined Amount of Time: Snowball Fight!

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From Big League Stew comes this video of Dayton and Gardner-Webb having a snowball fight during a weather delay:

Baseball players celebrating their birthday today

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Just for those of you sick of the 50th birthday of Michael Jordan, I now present to you a list of five baseball players who were born on February 17:

Wally Pipp

Josh Willingham

Ed Brandt

Rod Dedeaux (who would later be one of the greatest college coaches in baseball history)

Cody Ransom

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So there you go. Oh, and Red Barber was born on 2-17 as well.

Picture of the Day: Calisthenics

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This image is from the State Library of Florida and has no known copyright restrictions. It’s of the Brooklyn Dodgers doing calisthenics at Spring Training in 1949.

 

WBC news for Feb. 17, 2013

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Go below the jump for the latest news on the World Baseball Classic:

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Famous for Something Else: Michael Jordan

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If you don’t know who Michael Jordan is, you have either been in a coma for the last thirty years or you have come from another planet (although even people from other planets knew who Jordan was in his prime). It’s his 50th birthday today. Go below the jump for stuff on him:

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Videos of the Undetermined Amount of Time: Even More Old IL Baseball from the 30s

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Late Friday (but posted early Saturday), I found some old videos of International League baseball, circa 1932. Well, more of them are being uploaded, so here they are:

Rochester Red Wings (Billy Southworth, Specs Toporcer) vs. Buffalo Bisons (Bubbles Hargrave, Heinie Mueller)… with play-at-the-plate action near the end:

Red Wings vs. Toronto Maple Leafs (Rip Sewell):

And also some video from the 1931 “Little World Series” between the Red Wings and St. Paul Saints (the Red Wings won the series 5 games to 3, and this is from game 8). Keep an eye open for what appears to be a cameo by Cardinals GM Branch Rickey at 2:57 with two other dignitaries I can’t quite recognize (anybody who can help me out with this would be much appreciated) :

Picture of the day: Reggie. Spring Training. 1973.

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Today’s picture is from the Flickr stream of “Barnkat” and is used under a Creative Commons license.

In it, we see Reggie Jackson, in all of his afro’d glory, talking to Bill North during Spring Training, 1973.