He who is the most reliable power-hitter in the AL has taken another step back to the plain of the mortals. This one involved sirens and scotch. Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera was arrested (2/16/11) after the police found him inside his Land Rover, pulled over to the side of a road in Southern Florida, [...]
Miggy: Definitely Not One of A Kind
By: AnnexNate | Thursday February 24th, 2011
In the History Books: Ichiro Hits Ten!
By: AnnexNate | Thursday September 23rd, 2010
He did it again. Right about this time last year I posted a short series on Ichiro Suzuki’s ninth consecutive two-hundred hit season. Well, this year makes ten. Before the 2010 campaign Pete Rose was the only hitter in the history of the game with ten 200 (or more) hit seasons. He never had more [...]
In The History Books: The House That ______ Built
By: AnnexNate | Tuesday May 4th, 2010
Part Six: We have all heard it. I’ve used it in this very series. It will always be the most notable nickname that old Yankee stadium has/had. It was ‘The House That Ruth Built.’ The dimensions fit him perfectly. If he missed a pitch, maybe got under it a bit too much, it would still [...]
In The History Books: One Generation Removed
By: AnnexNate | Tuesday April 27th, 2010
Part Five: After the 1990 season Chicago welcomed a new ballpark. It was terrible. More reminiscent of the symmetrical, suburban cookie-cutter style than those that came immediately after it. The new Comiskey Park was clearly the transitional experiment to link design generations. One great thing that was marked by the completion of New Comiskey was [...]
In The History Books: Speed and Ugliness
By: AnnexNate | Wednesday April 14th, 2010
PART FOUR: Other than the obvious, Fenway and Wrigley, Dodger Stadium is the oldest remaining ballpark in the game. The Oakland Coliseum is the second oldest with Angel Stadium coming in third. All three of those ballparks are part of a series of symmetrically-based, cookie-cutter, ballparks which started in the early 1960s and continued into [...]
