Well, 2015 was a fun year here at “Wisdom and Links”, as well as at my usual blog, the Baseball Continuum. I demanded a better class of baseball fan, did math about Bobby Bonilla, showed you the Devil’s Baseball Dictionary, found average guys, unveiled the Anti-Toronto Conspiracy and celebrated Rickeymas. But, most of all, there were links.
Lots of links.
So, as 2015 comes to a close…. let’s look back at some of the best links of the year, in no particular order:
I’ve mentioned Amos Barshad’s look at the drug and punk-filled history of the “Yankees Suck!” t-shirts before, but I have to mention it again, since it was one of the best pieces of 2015.
J.R. Moehringer’s “The Education of Alex Rodriguez”
Rick Paulas on the doctoring of bats in slow-pitch softball
Ron Rapoport’s “The Last Years of Ernie Banks”
Tom Verducci on Game 5 of the 1975 World Series
Chris Ballard on Rocky Perone/Rich Pohle, a guy who faked his way into a minor league game
Tom Keiser’s article on the first Celebrity Softball Game
Howard Megdal on Chelsea Baker
Ted Berg on baseball at San Quentin
Anthony Castrovince on John Hirschbeck
Jeff Passan on Pedro Martinez’s HOF speech
W.M. Aker’s “The Forgotten Men Who Broke Baseball’s Color Line with Jackie Robinson”
Barry Svrluga’s three-part epic on the fall of the 2015 Nationals. The link is to part 3, but you can find all of them at the end of the article.
Dave McKenna on the still-unsolved case of the kidnapping of Violet Ripken
John Rosengren on the only high-schooler to strike out Joe Mauer
Wright Thompson on the last surviving child of Ted Williams
Paul Blest on the crazy comeback of the Indians over the Mariners on August 5, 2001
SBNation’s roundtable on Melissa Mayeux
Tom Verducci’s obituary for Yogi Berra
Claire McNear on the worst-attended game in modern MLB history…well, until the zero-attendance game
Michael McKnight and L. Jon Wertheim on the domestic abuse case of Monique and Milton Bradley
Anna McDonald’s oral history of Big League Chew
Jorge Arangure on a 56-year-old batboy in Cuba
Also, Jorge Arangure on match-fixing in Taiwan
Andy McCullough’s retrospective on the 2014 AL Wild Card game
Jason Feifer on the homeless indy-ball team that is the Frontier Greys
Brett Smiley on the history of “Baseball is Dying”
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And some of the best stuff at my blog, the Baseball Continuum:
A look at the 1981 Rochester Red Wings’ program
The surprisingly-high level of baseball content in Fallout 4
“The Day Baseball Died” Continuucast
Deep Dream turned baseball images into nightmares
Early “Viral” baseball stories
The Pittsburgh Pirates are really more like Privateers
And, of course, there are many more, so check out the Continuum to see them!
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