I don't know where to start. The NCAA has determined that the University of Connecticut committed a secondary rules violation because of a phone call between women's basketball head coach Geno Auriemma and Mo'ne Davis, a pitcher for a Philadelphia-based team in the 2014 Little League World … [Read more...]
NCAA cites UConn for recruiting violation because Geno Auriemma called Mo’ne
I don't know where to start. The NCAA has determined that the University of Connecticut committed a secondary rules violation because of a phone call between women's basketball head coach Geno Auriemma and Mo'ne Davis, a pitcher for a Philadelphia-based team in the 2014 Little League World … [Read more...]
Wendy Parker: It’s hard to call it labor when it doesn’t feel like work
Tweet Labor Day in the United States is being observed today, and I thought I’d use the occasion to select some blog posts that I truly enjoyed putting together. What I discovered wasn’t surprising: The posts that were the most fun to write and ponder were those that best exemplified the … [Read more...]
Byline to Finish Line: Why I love defensive indifference
It is literally the only time I cheer in the press box. And it’s not over a play, but rather over an official scoring decision. This is how it goes down: It’s late in the game and usually a blowout. A runner advances to second base with no move by the pitcher, catcher or infield to … [Read more...]
Fanatics MLB Cap Style Challenge
Fanatics, a leading online retailer of sports apparel and merchandise, issued a style-centric challenge centered around its vast selection of baseball caps. The company’s assortment of MLB headwear includes lids for every type of fan. The complete collection … [Read more...]
Wendy Parker on the baseball strike, 20 years later
How I enjoy and perceive the game of baseball changed forever 20 years ago this week, when well-heeled major leaguers went on strike. A month later, as pennant races should have been coming to a climax, MLB cancelled not only the regular season, but the playoffs. There would be no World Series for … [Read more...]
From the archives: Baseball and the Romantics
While I’m taking a summer break from the blog, I’m reposting and updating selected links from the archive. * * * * * * * * With another Baseball Hall of Fame Class having been inducted into Cooperstown, I thought I’d dig into the XCs vault and link to a post from January 2013, … [Read more...]
Summer Readings: Roger Angell and ‘An Angel or the Devil’
Richard Sandomir writes about Roger Angell of The New Yorker, the J.G. Taylor Spink honoree into the Baseball Hall of Fame for his writing. Now 93, Angell joins the company of Ring Lardner, Red Smith, Shirley Povich and Dick Young. His baseball essays for the magazine in 1962. He had no previous … [Read more...]
The cultural roots of race and baseball
While I’m taking a summer break from the blog, I’m posting links about sports history, books, culture and the arts that I haven’t mentioned here before. If you have any suggestions on great sports reads you’d like to bring to my attention, contact me at … [Read more...]
Wendy Parker: The Midsummer Classic and the American pastime
July is the time for Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game and Hall of Fame induction, so I’ll be devoting some posts this week to topics related to baseball’s future — and as always the case with this sport — and exploring how its past is immortalized. * * * * … [Read more...]