It’s August in Boston…must be time to panic. Just don’t forget these simple rules, outlined in this week’s Boston Metro Column.
Tonight at 7pm, I’m doing a reading from the new anthology Further Fenway Fiction at the Harvard Coop Bookstore in Cambridge. (My contribution: “The Ten Fenway Commandments.”) Hope to see any local UmpBump readers there!
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January 7, 2010 - 8:06 am
I can’t say I’m surprised, considering it’s the BWAA, but still, when it came down to it, I was actually pretty sure that Roberto Alomar was going to get into the Hall on his first ballot, if only because he obviously deserves to be in and because the ballot was so thin this year, at [...]
January 5, 2010 - 10:35 am
Recently, as I was writing my post on why Barry Larkin deserves to be a first-ballot hall-of-famer, I got to wondering who the top 10 shortstops of all time are. In order to get an answer, I decided to crowdsource my question to the internet!
What I did was I went to Google and looked up [...]
January 4, 2010 - 1:25 pm
This year UmpBump continues its annual tradition of honoring the greats by casting our vote for who we think deserves to be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. As always, we vote not just on players currently eligible for Hall of Fame voting under baseball’s arcane eligibility rules, but for any and all [...]
- 2:35 am
To my mind Barry Larkin is a stone cold lock for the Hall of Fame, even though there are probably enough people with short memories or who are just not paying attention among the BWAA to insure that he doesn’t get in this year.
Larkin had the complete package. An outstanding hitter with an .815 career [...]
August 8th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Preach on!
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August 10th, 2007 at 1:53 am
I love that “sucking it” is now part of y’all’s tag cloud.
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