No Yankees In The Playoffs? upenn.edu, Sergey Galyonkin, Phill Roussin & Ian Thomson via flickr Creative Commons, 3.31.14: Oculus Rift, The Sabermetric Revolution, Audio Orchard & Dinosaurs, Joe Shlabotnik via flickr Creative Commons. For Memorial Day, we revisit our earlier conversation about "Ninety Percent Mental" - that's what Yogi Berra said about baseball, and it's also the title of former Major League pitcher Bob Tewksbury's new book. The name pays homage to New Hampshire’s most beloved natural landmark: the Old Man of the Mountain. In a fan vote prior to the team’s inaugural season, the Fisher […], Now that the offseason is underway, several Minor League Baseball teams will soon unveil new names. Dixville Notch is an unincorporated community in Dixville township, Coos County, New Hampshire, United States.The population of the township, all of whom live in Dixville Notch, was 12 at the 2010 census.
Then, to everyone’s great surprise, he threw two more no-hitters, which brought his streak up to four consecutive games.
Clemens won a record seven Cy Young awards during his storied pitching career, but prosecutors contend that he used steroids and human growth hormone to prolong that career. (more…), Election Day-related promotions will be common this year, but the New Hampshire Fisher Cats (Class AA; Eastern League) are already upping the ante with a bipartisan opening day jersey. The New Hampshire primary is over and Sen. Bernie Sanders has been named the victor with 26% of the vote with 94% of precincts reporting.
To guys like Ed Carpenter, Fenway is history and home, magic and mystique. My friend Clark Griffith was involved for many years in major league baseball.
Producer Zach Nugent has been scouring record stores for the best new music offerings in a new segment we're calling The Audio Orchard. Plus, over 46 million Americans are on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.
It's also the 50th anniversary of the Beach Boys.
“The Kid”, “The Splendid Splinter”, “Teddy Ballgame”; Ted Williams went by a few nicknames while playing for the Boston Red Sox.
Florida Ballpark at Alfred A. McKethan Field (University of Florida) Atrium Health Ballpark (Kannapolis Cannon Ballers) The 19-year old hits baseballs, and he hits them hard. The New Hampshire Fisher Cats hold their home opener tonight in Manchester.
It’s been a decade since Boston's boys of summer willed their way out of the American League Championship Series in unlikely fashion and finally put to bed the ghosts of Ruth, Dent, Buckner, Boone (and countless others).
At an Oyster River High School baseball game few weeks ago, junior Brennen Oxford took the mound. From the loyal dog to the house cat to the horse, domestication has bridged the gap between wild animals and humans. SportsLogos.Net We spoke to him last year when the book came out...and pulled it from the archives today…a great day to celebrate Fenway Park . So I played with the logo and made some wordmarks. This remarkable show of talent earned Oxford a few headlines, including on Major League Baseball’s website.
It was love at first sight.".
In fact, there are two. Then, from playing catch in the backyard to taking junior to his first ball game, baseball is a bonding tradition, and cliché, for many American men. Glenn Stout tells the story of the idiosyncratic park’s construction, christening and enduring charm in the book “Fenway 1912: The Birth of a Ball Park, A Championship Season, and Fenway’s Remarkable First Year”. And, how is America’s sweet tooth may be rooted in Prohibition?
[…]. One of the most hyped young baseball players in the country right now happens to have a Fisher Cat on his uniform.
Ted Williams was obsessed with hitting, taking meticulous care of his bats, and was often observed swinging or posing for a pitch, whether he had a bat in his hands or not. (more…), The New Hampshire Fisher Cats (Class AA; Eastern League) will play a game this season as the New Hampshire Mountain Men, one of the finalists in a 2004 name-the-team contest.
2021 Ballparks Although Boston and Detroit are two of the oldest franchises in Major League Baseball, this is the first time they’ve faced each other in the playoffs. Plus, sabermetrics spawned a revolution in how baseball teams were built and inspired a blockbuster movie starring Brad Pitt, but does empirical analysis of baseball statistics still work today? So instead of ripping of the fisher cats, you ripped of the fisher cats? Yogi Berra's quote continued with "the other half is physical" and Tewksbury will also reminisce about some of the game-changing characters from his time on the mound. What are baseball fans today without their favorite targets of scorn?
Ben Bradlee Jr., former editor and reporter for the Boston Globe, spent ten years trying to find out exactly why Ted Williams was the way he was. Listen to the full show and Read more for individual segments. The New Hampshire Fisher Cats, who kick off their 2019 season on Thursday in Manchester, won last year’s Eastern League title with the help of three sons of famous major leaguers: Bo Bichette, Cavan Biggio and "born to hit" slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. For the first time since 2011, the New Hampshire Fisher Cats are champions of minor league baseball’s Double-A Eastern League. Riverfront Stadium (Wichita Wind Surge) Since that time the company has grown from a single employee working out of a home to a diversified publishing firm featuring Websites, books and other merchandise.
And are stats the final word?
Craig Larsen hit a grand slam in the eighth and became the first Penn player to hit for the cycle in 19 years. Even casual baseball fans have probably heard about Guerrero Jr. by now. These revisionist theme nights are the topic of this week’s Promotions Watch.
During the Depression, the face of hunger was easy to spot: gaunt, worn, and hollow-eyed. Being from New Hampshire, I figured I'd represent my state without ripping off the New Hampshire Fisher Cats. Our motto is simple: We enjoy doing cool things and are overjoyed we can make a living doing so. That plan changed dramatically thanks to a group of vocal and mobilized Granite Staters. Stevens spoke to NHPR’s John Walters about living with the most famous man in America, “we never thought about it when we were all at home. Comedian George Carlin once said, “Baseball is the only sport that appears backward in a mirror.” In The Concord Monitor this week, Granite Geek David Brooks has been writing about what it would be like to turn America’s pastime on its head.
(more…), The often overlooked aspect of name the team contests is that the monikers that do not win still offer plenty of promotional opportunities. Powered by Invision Community, New Hampshire Primaries as my fantasy baseball team, Johnny Canuck, Hartford Whalers, Lady Liberty, Stinger, Pre-Edge London Knights, Philadelphia Eagles, Florida Gators, London Monarchs, NOLA Hornets "fleur de bee", Vancouver Grizzlies secondary, "People of the court, these guys are total dildos!". Brian Costa can help. We’ll look at the father-son relationship through the lens of baseball.
Penn and Dartmouth have completed the longest game in Ivy League history, with the Quakers using an eight-run 21st inning to beat the Big Green 21-15 Saturday. Instead of running to first base, what if batters could choose to run to either first or third base?
It's the 10th season of a team that was originally supposed to be called The New Hampshire Primaries.
Then, in a contentious election season full of bombshells, boasts, and social media driving the outrage, how do newsrooms determine what deserves attention what doesn’t?
Williams married three times and had three children, but struck out as a father or husband. Listen to the whole show and click Read more for individual segments. Elijah Summerdrum, June 15, 2013 in Concepts, After debating what to name my team, I decided to go political with the "Primaries" logo. We’ll get a close up of the new face of American hunger. It’s like Mickey Mantle’s grandson announcing he’ll be hitting home runs for the Dartmouth College baseball team. By
He would blow up at the press, his teammates, and his family. New Marshall University ballpark It's the 10th season of a team that was originally supposed to be called The New Hampshire Primaries. "Isn't this beautiful?
The New Hampshire Fisher Cats hold their home opener tonight in Manchester. Yes and No, I ripped off the Primaries, a team that never saw the field. Toyota Field (Rocket City Trash Pandas) View election results and interactive map for the 2020 New Hampshire primary as the United States begins the process to elect the next president.
As Kansas City finds itself in its first World Series since 1985, its easy to think upon our own championship drought, which ended in 2004.
New Oconomowoc (WI) ballpark