On Saturday, we’ll have a short-but-sweet “Glick on Gaming.”
On Sunday, I’ll have a look at the best former name or identity for every MLB team’s city (Cleveland Spiders, for example).
There might also be another Red Wings Report. That’s TBD.
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Coming up on the Baseball Continuum…
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Coming up on the Baseball Continuum:
- A report from the first Rochester Red Wings game of the season.
- A short-but-sweet “Glick on Gaming.”
- An article in which I choose the best former name or identity for every MLB team’s city (Cleveland Spiders, for example).
Back next week
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The Baseball Continuum will return next week with some early speculation on the next World Baseball Classic.
See you then!
Coming up this week…
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Coming up this week on the Continuum:
- Another Bizarre Baseball Culture 2.0
- A “Famous for Something Else”
- Maybe something else as well.
Coming up…
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After another bit of a hiatus, I’m going to get going again. Here’s some stuff you can expect in the coming days and weeks:
- Bizarre Baseball Culture 2.0. Many of my Bizarre Baseball Culture posts from years past were done in a bit of a sloppy manner. If you go back, you’ll find plenty of grammatical errors, including in the very introduction of the feature (In Bizarre Baseball Culture, I take a look at some of the more unusual places where baseball has reared it’s head in pop culture and fiction) and other places. This is partly because A) I was still younger and inexperienced, and B) I was approaching it with a sort of laid-back vibe and perhaps wasn’t taking the actual writing portion as serious as I should have. Bizarre Baseball Culture 2.0 will involve me revisiting some of the best/worst pieces of Bizarre Baseball Culture and updating them to fit my standards and also to reflect changes that have happened since.
- That damn mascot post I’ve been working on-and-off on for months.
- A return of “Famous for Something Else.”
- Possibly some more “Glick on Gaming.”
Stay tuned!
Starting up again…
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After a bit of a break, we’ll be starting up again this week with a “Glick on Gaming” about frustration and knowing when to walk away for a game (at least for awhile) and also the long-in-development wacky mascot post.
Two neat links and a look at what is ahead
We start today with two neat links, both about diamonds. One from the present, one from the past.
The first is this article from Emma Baccelieri on the Long Time, a sandlot ballfield and performance venue in Austin with idiosyncratic rules and a deep love of the game. Home of the amateur adult-league Texas Playboys (which includes the architect of the field), the games held there raise money for local causes. A fascinating read about something I’d never heard about until today.
The other is an article at Atlas Obscura by Jonathan Goldman about the Dyckman Oval, a venue in northern Manhattan which was the center of Black Baseball in New York City until its late 1930s. Now covered by housing, playgrounds, and community center basketball courts, it’s a forgotten part of New York City’s baseball and Black history, without even a historical marker to indicate that it was once a stadium that often had people like Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, and Fats Waller sitting in the stands. Hopefully something is done to change that.
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Moving on now to what you can expect in the coming days and weeks:
- Tomorrow, there will be a tradition unlike any other; My bare-bones no-explanations-given postseason predictions.
- Reactions to the postseason.
- An incredibly stupid thing about mascots, which is to say it’ll be amazing.
- Ruminations on the ultimate baseball trip that I’d have if I had several million dollars and/or a bunch of sponsors.
- Possibly finally the first “Glick on Gaming” segment.
Thank you coming to the Baseball Continuum, see you again soon!
Coming up in the week ahead…
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Coming up in the week ahead, here’s what I have planned (it is, of course, continually subject to change):
- An incredibly stupid thing about mascots, which is to say it’ll be amazing.
- Something also quite stupid/amazing that is not quite a return to Bizarre Baseball Culture but is somewhat adjacent to it.
- Possibly finally the first “Glick on Gaming” segment.
And, of course, there could be new things if inspiration strikes.
The possible week ahead
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Here’s a possible look at the week ahead on the Continuum. As always, this could change due to… life.
- Another post on possible neutral field game sites (similar to this post), this time focused on international possibilities.
- Possibly the first true “Glick on Gaming”.
- Ruminations on how the Little League World Series is a lot less fun without the international teams.
Stay tuned!
A few neat links
So, I’ve been slacking with updates this past week due to “real world concerns”. So to make up for it, here are three neat links:
First off, there’s Clem’s Baseball. It has a giant array of diagrams showing how ballparks have changed over the years, including how they’ve adapted for other sports like football.
Want to stay up to date on Japanese baseball? Jim Allen has been in Japan for decades and once worked the sports desk of Japan’s biggest English-language paper. Now, he writes about Nippon Pro Baseball on his blog.
Going back to ballparks to wrap it up: Stadium Page. This is, not surprisingly, a webpage about baseball stadiums, but the real treat comes in its page of “Unrealized Concepts” such as the Brooklyn Dodger Dome and the thankfully-abandoned plan to demolish most of Fenway Park and replace it with a new stadium.
And there you go- three neat links. Here’s hoping it won’t take me almost a week for my next post.
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