Migrating over to Bluesky at @whyilikebaseball.bsky.social ! Publications director SABR since 2011. Typical polymath baseball nerd/comma jockey.
Joined October 2009
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12 Oct 2022
Here’s what it’s like here when the Yankees win. Loudest rendition of “New York, New York” I’ve heard in a long time
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Oooohlook what I just got in the mail! Latest issue of the Baseball Research Journal is here! Now that I’m not the editor I get to enjoy a leisurely read of the contents. 😎
ALT Two copies of a publication with a green and black illustration on the cover demonstrating different pitching grips
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Another thing I get to enjoy now that I’m not the editor: writing for the journal! This issue includes my article on women playing Banana Ball. Thanks @TheSavBananas for making some opportunities for women in professional ball! Eagerly awaiting @wpbl_official in August!
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Just came back from an amazing 10 day trip from Kenya with the Angels At Bat group. Over this trip I learned that there are over 30 school baseball programs in Kenya! Many of which started with the last 5 years. Every single day we visited a 1-2 programs.
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May 18
It's been three years since this happened. Urshela remains the only professional athlete I've personally encountered in 20 years to do this. Happy retirement to a real one. thebiglead.com/former-yankee…
9 Apr 2023
Good morning and happy Easter Sunday from Anaheim, where Gio Urshela just walked into the press box in full uniform and said hi.
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For every girl who's ever dreamed of being a pro baseball player. 🫶
Join the First Pitch Club to be the first to know when tickets go on sale for the inaugural season of the Women's Pro Baseball League.
womensprobaseballleague.com/…
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corwin is at the game and I’m at home and we’re texting each other what we think John’s home run calls would be for players. On Goldschmidt, “Goldschmidt hammered that one!” “It’s Golden Hour!”
May 18
Tonight marks the first game for the John Sterling memorial patches, which will be worn on the Yankees' uniform sleeves for the remainder of the 2026 season.
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The Hall of Fame remembers René Cárdenas, who passed away Sunday at the age of 96.
Beginning in 1958 when the Dodgers arrived on the West Coast, Cárdenas pioneered Spanish language baseball as a broadcast director and announcer for Los Angeles, Houston and Texas.
ALT Head and shoulders portrait of René Cárdenas wearing a suit and tie. (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum)
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May 11
My big news: I've left The Athletic because they wanted me to stop covering the Twins.
I refused to give up my dream, so I'm betting on myself and returning to my independent roots.
I need your support to make it work. Join me and let's do this together: aarongleeman.com/welcome-to-…
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May 11
RIP broadcaster René Cardenas, the first MLB Spanish broadcaster for the Dodgers in 1958, who was inducted into the Houston Astros Hall of Fame in 2024.
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Okay I have a bunch of John Sterling stories, he was a flirtatious gentleman at times but always a gentleman, and he made time for my Dad on my dad’s 70th birthday. The Yankees were playing at Tropicana Field. To surprise him my mom rented a party suite. While she got everyone..
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Proceeds to first of all say a bunch of nice things about me to my father who was absolutely beaming and then wished him a very happy birthday and autographed his ticket (this was back when tickets were made of paper 😅). What a class act.
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(And then we took dad up to the party suite where 20 friends and relatives were hiding, waiting to surprise him. A great day in Tan family lore all around.)
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That is an absolutely wild stat. John goes up there with Eddie Layton and Bob Sheppard as an absolute Yankees institution.
John Sterling called 28.7% of all games in #Yankees franchise history—including 47.5% of all postseason games.
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20 Apr 2024
Well, John, we thank you.
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This is the greatest 💕 (I also have a Dad birthday story involving John 😄)
May 4
Easily my favorite personal Sterling memory: I asked John to make a home run call for my Dad as his Father’s Day present about 8 or 9 years ago. With absolutely no hesitation, he freestyled this HR call off the dome. My dad to this day tells me it was the greatest gift he’d ever gotten.
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Meggie Meidlinger is living the dream. 😌
In our latest episode, the WPBL Los Angeles pitcher talks about balancing being a pro baseball player with a career in architecture, and here role in bringing women's baseball to Uganda.
Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=zQKeC0f0…
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Apr 18
Good news, we’re not the Mets
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