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Coming up this week on the Continuum:
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:
Stay tuned!
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.
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:
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Coming up in the week ahead, here’s what I have planned (it is, of course, continually subject to change):
And, of course, there could be new things if inspiration strikes.
Here’s a possible look at the week ahead on the Continuum. As always, this could change due to… life.
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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.
Due to some other stuff going on with me as well as a strike of inspiration, here’s the updated schedule for the blog:
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