Pascual Mania
Destined for greatness, derailed by drugs.Remembering back to the earlyish days of cable TV—ca. 1982, 1983, and 1984, before my (Evander’s) neck of the woods was wired for Pay TV and the Betamax was...
View ArticlePredicting the 2013 Baseball Season
Forecasting baseball future, Kabbalah-style The 2013 baseball season, which opens on April Fools’ Day, promises to make a fool of all prognosticators. Nothing new in this. How could one imagine the...
View ArticleAlways Wanted to Do This
Broadcasting the New York Yankees for 25 years: John Sterling I (Evander) always fantasized broadcasting a major-league baseball game—or at least one inning. But either at the stadium or in front of...
View ArticleTen-inning Gem from 1965
Flamethrower from the 1960s Jim Maloney threw 187 (!) pitches, walking ten batters, in his ten-inning, August 19, no-hitter versus the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. Wrigley, which turns 100 in 2014,...
View ArticleMasahiro Tanaka in the New Year
How high the bidding for Masahiro goes is anyone’s guessThe major-leagues’ sweepstakes for twenty-five-year-old Masahiro Tanaka, who had an incredible 24-0 record for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles...
View ArticleHello, 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleCiti 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...
View ArticleGood-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...
View ArticleIn 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...
View ArticleEd 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...
View ArticleGroup 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...
View ArticleStreaking
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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleBabe 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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