INTERVIEW WITH BASEBALL WRITER LOU HERNANDEZ
by Ismael Nunez Lou Hernandez is a member of the Society of American Baseball Research and a life-long baseball fan. He’s written two Baseball Books on Latin America Memories of Winter Ball: Interviews with Players in the Latin American Winter Leagues of the 1950s . The Rise of the Latin American Baseball Leagues, 1947-1961: Cuba, the […]
For The Toronto Blue Jays, The Future is Looking Good
APRIL is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. _ -T.S. Eliot, the Wasteland _It’s been an interesting April here in Blue Jay land. It’s been something of purgatory for the Jays, so far, with many key players from better-than-you-thought late aughts […]
June Reflections on the Blue Jays
When my partner in crime, Tom, penned his last epistle about our beloved azure corvidae, things were just going great in the Queen City. He mentioned how much he was enjoying the season thus far, and confided that he wasn’t sure how long the Jays could keep it up. The answer – not long. Almost […]
Reflections on the Blue Jays
So spring training is over, the season is underway, and the Jays have gotten off to a decent start – not that it has changed any of the seemingly unanimous consensus around the baseball world and T-dot media that the Jays are going absolutely nowhere. I traveled from my home in Washington DC to Toronto […]
Reflections on the Blue Jays’ Off Season
Hi everyone, and greetings from the great white north (metaphorically speaking, in my case– I actually live in Washington DC). I’m Hugo, and Rincewind and I (more on that later) run Bluebird Banter, a blog dedicated to discussions and ruminations on our favourite azure-tinged corvids. It’s a great site full of great folks and we’d […]
