Baseball Purist
“For Love of the Game”
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Less is More
We are all excited that a new baseball season has just begun. With that said, it will not be too long before some of us will be asking how much is enough? For comparison purposes let’s look at the current and recent seasons, as well as seasons from the past in terms of length. The…
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Hello Newman
There are so many terrific episodes from Seinfeld, which aired from 1989 through 1998. One of the most iconic moments from that series was when Kramer and Newman recanted the story of how Keith Hernandez of the New York Mets supposedly spit on them after a crushing loss. Here is a bit of the dialogue…
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Celebrity Baseball Spotlight Series: The Rifleman
Chuck Connors, the movie and television actor was most famous for his role in The Rifleman, but before that he had a fascinating journey through the sports world. Connors made his mark in the history books as one of only 14 people ever to have played both in Major League Baseball (MLB) and in the…
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Money is Everything
Back in late November, New York Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner stated his preference for lowering his team’s overall payroll for the upcoming 2026 season. There was a lot to take from this interview but for the purposes of this post we will ignore what Steinbrenner talked about in terms of the Yankees and will focus…
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Baseball’s Problem
Major league baseball’s biggest problem can be seen most prominently and surprisingly in one of their more successful franchises, the Milwaukee Brewers. The good news is that the Brewers have made the postseason for past three years and qualified for the playoffs seven times in the last eight years. Unfortunately, they are also a small…
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Celebrity Baseball Spotlight Series: Mario Cuomo
As part of our ongoing series of celebrities (which we have extended to politicians for this piece) that played either major or minor league baseball, we now present Mario Cuomo, who was the 52nd governor of New York, serving three terms from 1983 to 1994. In addition, Cuomo was previously the lieutenant governor from 1979…
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The Death of Sign Stealing: Part Deux
We covered in one of our more extensive posts to-date, the reason for the implementation of the PitchCom technology. In this post, we thought we would likely have to go into an equally in depth analysis of how MLB calculated the reduction in game time due to the implementation of PitchCom. Well, that is not…
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The Death of Sign Stealing – Part 1
Another aspect of MLB meddling in the fundamentals of the game, which has led to the …… dehumanization, standardization, homogenization, and over-regulation of baseball has been the introduction of Pitchcom. For those of you not aware of Pitchcom here is a bit of history: PitchCom is a wireless communication system used in baseball that lets…
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Wins and Innings
On October 31, 1973 Tom Seaver of the New York Mets became the first Cy Young winner to not win at least 20 games. Seaver only missed that mark by one win after recording a record of 19-10 for the 1973 season. How times have changed. There has not been a 20 game Cy Young…
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Celebrity Baseball Spotlight Series: Scott Patterson
As part of our recurring celebrity spotlight series we now focus on actor Scott Patterson. Prior to his acting career, Patterson played seven years of minor league ball from 1980-1986. Originally drafted by the Atlanta Braves in 1980, he was then traded by the Braves to the New York Yankees for Bob Watson in 1982. …
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Robert Redford
We recently posted about The Natural, one of our favorite films. Sadly, shortly thereafter this posting the star of that film Robert Redford passed away on September 16th at the age of 89. Due to Mr. Redford starring in this most classic of baseball films there sprung up rumors over the years that he had…
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Celebrity Baseball Spotlight Series
Here at BP we wondered if there were celebrities out there that also played baseball. For purposes of our list, we are not going to consider athletes who played other sports, which would exclude such famous individuals as Deion Sanders, Bo Jackson, Danny Ainge, Shaq Thompson, etc. who all played multiple sports in their career. …
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