Monday, April 2, 2018

Links to Major League Baseball web sites

SPOTLIGHT



MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
ARTICLES

Ohtani soars for Angels in Major League pitching debut (Reuters)


DICKENS: Baseball is no longer America’s pastime (The Daily Nebraskan)


Bicentennial: Illinois native Bill Veeck was champion for baseball (Herald & Review)


The Alabama baseball ultimate top 10 hitters (AL.com)


McElroy: Forget optimism, it's time for brutal honesty for these MLB teams (Richmond Times-Dispatch)


March 31, 1998: The historic day that kicked off a historic MLB season (The Sporting News)


The Great Felipe Alou Tells His Story (Forbes)


Breakout Batter: Meet Michael A. Taylor (On Tap Magazine)


Why "The Sandlot" is still so special, 25 years later (Quartzy)


Boston officials postpone vote on Yawkey Way name change

(Madison.com)

More Baseball Fans Getting Hit By the Ball (WebMD)


MLB Sets New Rules To Speed Up The Game (NPR)


How to Create a 'Scott Foster' Rule for MLB: Let a Civilian Be the Emergency Catcher
 (Sports Illustrated)


Baseball Hall of Fame: How 6 Chronicle writers voted

(San Francisco Chronicle)

MY PICKS FOR THE 2018 HOF CLASS (Sports on Earth)


Baseball Hall of Fame voters are making progress, but not enough (Boston Globe)


Jeff Jacobs: This Could Be My Last Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot (Hartford Courant)


Haudricourt: Here's whom I voted for on the baseball Hall of Fame ballot and why (Journal Sentinel)


Baseball Hall of Fame update: Phillies legends gaining ground

(That Ball's Outta Here)

Getting into baseball’s Hall of Fame is hard. Voting isn’t easy either. (Tampa Bay Times)


The Best Players in the Baseball Hall of Fame (Ranker)


Latin Americans in Major League Baseball Through the First Years of the 21st Century (Britannica)


The Origins of All 30 MLB Team Names (Mental Floss)


1922 Supreme Court rules in favor of Major League Baseball (History)


BY THE NUMBERS

13 greatest hitters in baseball history


15 MLB Players Responsible for Rule Changes

Ranking the TOP 50 Players in the MLB for 2020


VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE

MLB | Great Plays Behind The Back

Bobby Bonilla was more than the Patron Saint of Bad Contracts l FiveThirtyEight


IAN KINSLER RETIRES


Barry Bonds never won a World Series. Here's what left him empty-handed.


Willie Mays made "The Catch," but how great was it? | Baseball Bits


What happened to Josh Hamilton?


Ichiro vs. Cooperstown

What happened to Johan Santana?


MLB | Worst errors 2019

MLB | Oddities 2019


MLB | Oddities | Part 2


MLB | Smart escapes


What happened to Tim Lincecum?






MLB: walk-off grand slams (down by 3)


10/11/1980 Game 4 1980 N.L.C.S. Pete Rose gives Bruce Bochy a forearm smash! WooHoo! Everybody Hits!

MLB funny moments ᴴᴰ

MLB: Best plays of 2018

MLB: Unlucky umpires


MLB greatest outfield throws of all time

MLB creative (smart/lucky) plays ᴴᴰ


Greatest catches in MLB history


Stealing home compilation

Last pitch of all MLB perfect games (no music)

Inside-the-park home runs

What is the food like in MLB?


How and when you get paid in MLB?


What do the baserunner and 1st baseman talk about?


What gear do you get in MLB?


MLB Playback - The most interesting plays in history


Greg Maddux. Best pitcher ever?


The Official History of Baseball, Volume 1 (1994)

Mickey Mantle: The Definitive Story (MLB Baseball Documentary)


Bob Uecker Tonight Show - 1971

Rube Waddell is baseball's most interesting man


MLB best sportsmanship moments


Baseball Hall of Fame remembers Willie McCovey


When charging the mound backfires (part 2)


Nolan Ryan showing off his fastball


MLB nasty right handed pickoff move


MLB | Super nasty pitcher


Why Bryce Harper LEAVING is GREAT for the Nationals!


FIVE UNBREAKABLE MLB RECORDS


FIVE MLB RECORDS NOBODY WANTS


BASEBALL MOVIE ON RADIO

Lux Radio Theater: It happens every spring - Ray Milland

MOVIE CLIPS

The Natural - Batting practice


Knock the cover off


BULL DURHAM | "Man, that ball got outta here in a hurry" HD


Bull Durham - Best scene


For Love Of The Game: "What's he looking at?" epic baseball scene


Major League II: Vaughn vs. Parkman

Best scene from Moneyball

Moneyball clean


Moneyball: Baseball thinking is medieval


Moneyball - Adapt or die


Role model and leadership Moneyball


MONEYBALL - breaking biases - FREQUENCY BASED PROBABILITY / STATISTICS - MATHEMATICS in the MOVIES


Moneyball 2011 profound clip


DOCUMENTARY FOOTAGE


How “Moneyball” changed baseball FOREVER


Brad Pitt and Billy Beane talk MONEYBALL, interview

PEOPLE

Casey Stengel bio (Baseball-Reference)


Nolan Ryan bio (Britannica)


Archie "Moonlight" Graham bio (Wikipedia)


MEDIA SITES


New York Times page

Washington Post page


Chicago Tribune page


Los Angeles Times page


The Oregonian page


CBS Sports page


ESPN page


ABC News page


OTHER SITES

Susan G. Komen page

Bloomberg page


Bleacher Report page


MLB Trade Rumors page


YouTube page


QUOTE

"You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too. To be good you've gotta have a lot of little boy in you."
— Roy Campanella

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