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Celebrity Baseball Spotlight Series: Mario Cuomo
As part of our ongoing series of celebrities (which we have extended to politicians for this piece) that played either major or minor league baseball, we now present Mario Cuomo, who was the 52nd governor of New York, serving three terms from 1983 to 1994. In addition, Cuomo was previously the lieutenant governor from 1979…
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The Death of Sign Stealing: Part Deux
We covered in one of our more extensive posts to-date, the reason for the implementation of the PitchCom technology. In this post, we thought we would likely have to go into an equally in depth analysis of how MLB calculated the reduction in game time due to the implementation of PitchCom. Well, that is not…
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The Death of Sign Stealing – Part 1
Another aspect of MLB meddling in the fundamentals of the game, which has led to the …… dehumanization, standardization, homogenization, and over-regulation of baseball has been the introduction of Pitchcom. For those of you not aware of Pitchcom here is a bit of history: PitchCom is a wireless communication system used in baseball that lets…
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Wins and Innings
On October 31, 1973 Tom Seaver of the New York Mets became the first Cy Young winner to not win at least 20 games. Seaver only missed that mark by one win after recording a record of 19-10 for the 1973 season. How times have changed. There has not been a 20 game Cy Young…
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Celebrity Baseball Spotlight Series: Scott Patterson
As part of our recurring celebrity spotlight series we now focus on actor Scott Patterson. Prior to his acting career, Patterson played seven years of minor league ball from 1980-1986. Originally drafted by the Atlanta Braves in 1980, he was then traded by the Braves to the New York Yankees for Bob Watson in 1982. …
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Robert Redford
We recently posted about The Natural, one of our favorite films. Sadly, shortly thereafter this posting the star of that film Robert Redford passed away on September 16th at the age of 89. Due to Mr. Redford starring in this most classic of baseball films there sprung up rumors over the years that he had…
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Celebrity Baseball Spotlight Series
Here at BP we wondered if there were celebrities out there that also played baseball. For purposes of our list, we are not going to consider athletes who played other sports, which would exclude such famous individuals as Deion Sanders, Bo Jackson, Danny Ainge, Shaq Thompson, etc. who all played multiple sports in their career. …
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Yellow Uniforms Revisited
Recently we posted about the god awful yellow uniforms that the Boston Red Sox wear as part of MLB’s city connect series. We noted there were references online about how popular these bright yellow jerseys were with the fans. “Ok, we get it. People like the yellow”. “Given the popularity of our yellow uniforms with…
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The Natural
One of our favorite baseball movies is The Natural from 1984 starring Robert Redford as the fictional player Roy Hobbs. Truly an inspirational film and one that even a non-baseball fan would love. We remember this iconic film, since we feel it accurately juxtaposes the love of the game from the BP, many fans, and…
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Where is the Red?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Somehow though, someone in the Boston Red Sox organization decided that there was beauty in this uniform design?!!?! The above is the jersey worn by the Red Sox ever since 2021 when MLB introduced the City Connect jerseys throughout baseball. The Red Sox wear these yellow and…
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It’s Mostly About the Money
Money doesn’t buy happiness as the saying goes. On the other hand, we here at BP would rather take our chances with having money (and lots of it) and finding happiness than the other way around. The same goes for MLB team payrolls and success. As of August 27th, here is a look at the…
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2024 Baseball Attendance
It was the prevailing theory that the introduction of the pitch clock and other measures to speed up the game resulted in the attendance jump in 2023. That year, attendance increased by more than 6 million fans or 9.6%. It was our thought in this prior post from the end of the 2023 season that…
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