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Hello, Beatles; Good-bye, Ralph Kiner
Ralph Kiner: Doing what made him a Hall of Famer.I (Evander) am endlessly fascinated by temporal coincidence: I believe it’s called synchronicity. Permit me to play kowtow to my whimsy. As we celebrate...
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The Three Stooges at the Mets
The Three Stooges Stuart Cohn (left), a long-suffering Mets fan (is there any other?), Yankees aficionado Evander Lomke (center), and cricket interloper Martin Rowe (right)—the latter two the founders...
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Citi Field Goes Vegan
Johanna McCloy (right): making vegans and the health-conscious happy. As the previous post suggests, on Friday, August 15th, Evander and I (Martin) took the F Train from the Right Off the Bat Media...
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Good-bye, Mr. Sunshine
Mr. Cub honored in 2009 by Mr. PresidentErnie Banks is gone. He was the first African American to play for the Chicago Cubs, and has forever since been “Mr. Cub.” A Hall of Fame inductee (1977), Banks...
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In the Beginning
Bet you never saw it in blue before To affirm that hope springs eternal, as the thermometer dips to 2 degrees F, a New York City/Right off the Bat HQ record for any February 20, teams are assembling to...
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Ed Reulbach: Pioneering Jewish Baseball Star?*
Baseball card of one of the century-ago stars (1905-17)In the history of MLB, only one pitcher has thrown shutouts in both ends of a doubleheader. (For cricket fans and the many baseball fans too young...
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Group Psychotherapy for Cleveland
The franchise of Feller, Score, and Thome: its fans wait till next year Nicholas Frankovich asks if Cleveland Indians fans require a big-couch session with a group psychotherapist. It’s a reasonable...
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Streaking
Popular performance art in the heyday of Bobby Riggs: This type of streaker perdures. Like the proverbial first-small-step of the longest journey, record-MLB streaks begin innocently enough. Each...
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The Baseball Scene
The bat looks like a toothpick (or pen) in Henry James’s hand. Henry James, for whom no abstraction, no characteristic or gesture, was too subtle to be examined (and examined), qualified and qualified...
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Babe Ruth Had the Spanish Flu Twice in 1918
The magazine everyone in the US once read identifies Hemingway and Ruth as two of the most-important Americans of the preceding century. My (Evander’s) old friend and longtime supporter of the Right...
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