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MLB Umpires Holding Online Auction to Benefit Children
Priceless Memorabilia, One-of-a-Kind Experiences Highlight Online Charity Event
New York, NY (March 9, 2010)—A Major League Baseball jersey signed by President
Barack Obama, the chance for you and friends to watch batting practice from the field, a
pre-concert meet-and-greet with the Black Eyed Peas including floor seating, tickets to
the 2010 All-Star Game, and [...]
How To Preserve An Autographed Bat
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Baseball Bloggers Alliance (BBA) Now on Blog Talk Radio!
The writers of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance would like to announce that they are taking to the airwaves.
Beginning Tuesday, February 16th at 11 pm Eastern, BBA Baseball Talk can be found at Blog Talk Radio. This one-hour show will discuss the big stories of the day in major league baseball and other [...]
A Post In Celebration of President’s Day
What If There Were Baseball In Colonial Times?
The Coaching Staff
Manager: George Washington – a born leader who will make mistakes along the way (fans would have criticized his moves as a baseball manager just like they do in today’s game, but he is the master of learning from his mistakes. I’d [...]
BackyardBall: A book on Whiffleball, aka Plastic Ball
Backyard Ball
By Thomas P. Hannon, Jr.
This is a fun filled book about the world of Plastic Baseball or Wiffle Ball. It includes all the information you need to start playing as a family game or serious league play. Use this book to help rediscover your Backyard and read about people who actually built replica fields [...]
Former Phillies Player, Dave Hollins, Tell His Diabetes Story
I have recently decided that Baseball Reflections will start broadening our horizons just a bit. Call it one of our 2010 resolutions. We will now be bringing you selected videos in a more frequent basis than we have in our previous two years of operation. We hope this ads to your enjoyment of this site! [...]
Baseball Reflection’s Affiliation with Amazon
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As some of you have noticed, we have joined the Amazon affiliate program some time ago. What you may not know is what’s available through Baseball Reflections.com so this post is here to tell you just that!
For starters, you can view and purchase from our aStores which is where you can find [...]
Akadema’s Praying Mantis Catcher’s Mitt, Designed by Hall of Famer Gary Carter
Here is the next installment in my series of recommended Akadema Gloves. This, like the last one earlier this month (the Prodigy AOZ 91) was designed by a Hall of Famer, this time, catcher Gary Carter who use to play for the Expos, Mets, Giants and Dodgers before finishing his playing career back with the [...]
Akadema’s Prodigy Series Youth Baseball Gloves
Prodigy Design Series AOZ 91, For players ages 9-13
Anyone who has followed my writing closely from the start or who happens to know me personally should know that I am a HUGE Ozzie Smith fan! His Cardinals number is on my HS class ring as my favorite position to play in HS was SS. So, [...]
A Case for a Baseball Hall of Fame Induction
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Why haven’t the BBWAA elected the closer with the third highest saves total with 478? The only two guys ahead of him are still playing (Hoffman and Rivera) and former inductees whom are below him on the list are Eckersley, Fingers, Gossage, Sutter and Wilhelm. The next closest player is John Franco and [...]
Friday Night Links
Baseball Bats
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Continuing on our quest to assist our loyal readers with holiday shopping ideas we provide you with the previous link to baseball bats that you can choose from for the baseball player(s) in your life.
There you will find both aluminum and wood bats, baseball as well as softball bats (although you may [...]
Friday Night Links
As per our recent trend on Friday nights leading up to the holidays this year we bring you some gift ideas for the baseball fan(s) in your life…
This week we bring you some baseball apparel gift ideas…
Hats and Caps
Whether you want a Baseball Reflections hat or cap to show your support for this site. Or [...]
Friday Night Links
For the next month or so we will be highlighting some products, companies or sites in an attempt to supply you, the loyal Baseball Reflections readers, with some holiday gift ideas for the baseball player(s) in your life.
Meyvn Baseball Company
If you’re like me, you’ll want to know why co-founders Richie Benes and Merrell Ligons [...]
Three Harry Kalas Video Tributes
With the Philadelphia Phillies heading to their second consecutive trip to the World Series, here are a few tributes to the late, Great Harry Kalas: A Phillies Legend!
This first one is presented to you by Comcast…
This one is the Harry Kalas tribute video 4/17/09 Citizens Bank Park…
This one is slower with snap shots of Harry [...]
Product Review: Akadema’s ProSoft 1B Mitt: AJJ 254
When my contact at Akadema asked me if I would do another review if sent another glove I jumped at the chance! This time I asked for a first baseman’s glove as I have always been fascinated with them for reasons unknown to even myself. Maybe it’s because when I was growing up, my dad [...]
BBA 2009 Cy Young Award Ballot
For starters, here is how I added up the numbers, showing you which stats I added more weight to and why. If you only care about who I choose, then you can skip over the next few paragraphs.
My Methodology/Madness
Wins + (4.00 – ERA) multiplied by 10 + Complete Games + Shutouts + Innings Pitched + [...]
2009 League Championship Series Predictions
OK, I admit I was 2 for 4 with my LDS predictions, but I thought I’d try it out again.
ALCS
Angels -vs- Yankees
Angels ALDS recap:
So who would have thought that the Angels pitching would both out pitch Boston’s starters AND completely shut down Boston’s offense for most of that series? Also, almost everyone gave the advantage [...]
BBA Ballot: 2009 AL Rookie of the Year Award
This is the BBA ballot for the 2009 AL Rookie of the Year vote from Baseball Reflections. Honorable mentions include Tigers SP Rick Porcello who might have gotten a top 3 vote if he was better supported by the Tigers, likewise with Rays SP Jeff Niemann. Last but not least, Rangers SS Elvis [...]
Who Really Created And Made Baseball “America’s Game”
If someone asked you who was the founder of the game of baseball? Well, if you are not a baseball historian or purist, you may just say Abner Doubleday. After all, the field at the Baseball Hall of Fame, Doubleday Field, is named after him. But the new book, “Live All You Can: Alexander Joy [...]
AL and NL Divisional Series Predictions
As an aside, I had the privilege of reading a recent post by our Yankees writer Lisa Swan over at The Faster Times concerning Hot teams going into the playoffs and this is what she had to say after looking at the September/October records of the 72 playoff teams from 2000-2008…
Of the [...]
MLB Players Have NOT Hit it Off with Twitter
As reported by Gail Sideman of Mashable in her article entitled, “Twitter and Major League Baseball: A Missed Opportunity“, major league baseball players have not taken to Twitter like players in other major sports have.
Image by Keith Allison via Flickr
You hear about NBA players like Shaq and NFL players like T.O. using [...]
Sugar: The Movie now on DVD
Back in July I was informed of the DVD release of the movie “SUGAR”, but as life can sometimes be hectic, I haven’t gotten to write about it until now. “SUGAR” came out on Blu-ray and DVD on September 1st. So if you are a fan of the Dominican Republic’s brand of baseball, “SUGAR” give [...]
Introducing The Funnel AFL 11 from Akadema
There are a few scents that I know of that really wake me up. One is the smell of freshly cut grass (especially that of Fenway Park as smelled from behind the Green Monster), freshly cut wood, the smell of a new leather baseball glove and a certain perfume that my wife wears which [...]
100 INNINGS OF BASEBALL Benefitting Curt’s Pitch for ALS
CURT SCHILLING’S ALS AWARENESS EFFORTS CONTINUE
6th ANNUAL, 100 INNINGS OF BASEBALL ANNOUNCED
Contest expected to surpass $500,000 raised overall.
Ballplayers of All Abilities Are Encouraged to Participate!
Quincy – Stock up on the peanuts and cracker jacks. Boston-based sports marketing firm, Charity Hop, in conjunction with Curt Schilling and the ALS Association of Massachusetts, will host the 6th [...]
Friday Night Links
This edition of Friday Night Links introduce you to a new baseball site that has just recently launched. If you’re an NBA fan, have visited The Hoop Doctors and have enjoyed your treatment the doctors there have provided then you will be happy to know that they have multiple spinoff sites.
But, before that be aware [...]
WEEI/NESN Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon
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Join me in raising the awareness to the wonderful work of The Jimmy Fund, the Boston Red Sox official charity for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The Jimmy Fund was founded in 1948 and made popular by the generosity and support of the late great Red Sox LF Ted Williams.
To learn more [...]
WEEI/NESN Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon
Image by GregPC via Flickr
Join me in raising the awareness to the wonderful work of The Jimmy Fund, the Boston Red Sox official charity for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The Jimmy Fund was founded in 1948 and made popular by the generosity and support of the late great Red Sox LF Ted Williams.
To learn more [...]
A Glove of Their Own: A Book Review
If you think that youth baseball today has gotten too competitive and structured with All Star Leagues and travel teams, allow me to bring you back to a simpler time. Have any of you ever played just for the fun of the game in a non-league setting? Do you remember playing pick-up games with less [...]
Baseball Reflection’s MLB Keychain Raffle
Welcome to the first, and hopefully not last, Baseball Reflections Keychain Raffle sponsored by WholesaleKeychain.com.
We will be raffling off 9 MLB team keychains. There will be links below to the WholesaleKeychain.com page of the 9 teams (these links will open up in a new tab or page) selected for this raffle.
There will be at least [...]
Wholesale Keychains Product Review & 10% off Coupon
When I was first approached by Jeff at Wholesale Keychains and he told me he wanted to send Baseball Reflections some sample keychains to review, I have to admit that my first thought was, “Wow! I really need a new Red Sox Keychain”. But then Jeff later told me that we could also give some [...]
