Derrick Goold's Blog, page 142
December 19, 2011
Sixty-six years before Eric Young hit the first regular season...
Sixty-six years before Eric Young hit the first regular season major-league homer in the time zone's history there was baseball at altitude. I wonder if Paige complained about Gehrig hitting in the thin air.
Lou Gehrig at Denver's Merchants Park, 1927. During the early twentieth century, legends including Gehrig, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and Babe Ruth played in the Denver Post Tournament.
December 14, 2011
December 13, 2011
Corner of Arabella and Magazine in New Orleans, a block away...
Corner of Arabella and Magazine in New Orleans, a block away from where I lived, and more importantly where I proposed about 12 years ago.
December 12, 2011
On the penultimate page of the current issue of Chew (No. 22),...
On the penultimate page of the current issue of Chew (No. 22), comes a new take on the sportswriter archetype. He enters the story here as a burly sort with calloused knuckles, raccoon eyes (and not from those hockey writer special 6:15 a.m. flights), and, you'll soon see, a stack of zombiefied ballplayers behind him. Doesn't sound like any ball writer I know in fly-over country. Must be from a coast.
Chew — written by John Layman, drawn by Rob Guillory — is one of the more insane and...
Carr: When Truth Survives Free Speech
Journalism has experienced a universe of positives as a result of social media and the proliferation of Twitter, Facebook and other online sources as a suped-up vehicle for news. Accountability is on the rise. Scoops, while sometimes poached, are more often shared. Important stories reach broader audiences than ever. One corrosive negative, however, is the fact that professionally trained journalists and gifted, inventive bloggers often have the same...
Looks like Spider-Man's moral catchphrase has been...
Looks like Spider-Man's moral catchphrase has been shortened through the years to better fit on buttons and bumper stickers, but the sentiment is the same.
"With great power there must also come—great responsibility."
via heyoscarwilde:
original back cover artwork for Marvel Treasury #1 circa 1974
illustration by John Romita Sr. :: via romitaman.com
December 11, 2011
December 7, 2011
Explaining Pujols' free agency to a 5-year-old
One morning in May, The Post-Dispatch ran a photo illustration on its front page that depicted Albert Pujols in a Chicago Cubs uniform. This confused and unnerved by son, who had just turned 5. Ever since he's been consumed by this notion that Pujols could — gasp! — play for another team. He has waffled from saying that he would find a new Cardinal to cheer to suggesting he would find a new team to root for if Pujols leaves. I tried to explain f...
December 5, 2011
"Journalists travel in packs with transferable tension."
- Gay Talese, writing about journalism in the early paragraphs of The Kingdom and the Power, but just as easily have been describing baseball writers at the Winter Meetings.
