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One artist. Every Hall of Famer. A very cool project. Summer...

One artist. Every Hall of Famer. A very cool project. Summer Anne Burton is drawing every baseball Hall of Famer, in chronological order, and earlier this week it was The Man's turn at the tip of the pen …

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Special thanks to Joe Posnanski for his excellent work on Musial, including bringing the Gibson quote to my attention. And also just for being the writer he is.

What's missing from "Moneyball"

What's missing from "Moneyball":

A missive posted at my day-job blog about the movie that "Moneyball" is (it's good, but not because of the baseball!) and the movie that "Moneyball" almost could have been (it would have been like a documentary complete with Tony La Russa!). In short:

In the new film "Moneyball," starting pitchers are treated like the proverbial children. They are seen (rarely) and not heard.

… "Moneyball" is a movie about baseball in the same way that "The Social Network,"...

Happy 227th Birthday Daily Newspaper

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On Sept. 21, 1784, The Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser stopped being a weekly publication and became the first daily American daily newspaper. According to America's Library's this date in history, the paper represented a shift in publishing:

"Many independent newspapers ran before that on a weekly or monthly basis. America's first independent newspaper, the New England Courant, was published by Benjamin Franklin's older brother in 1721. By the start of the Revolutionary War in...

Capturing "The Art of Fielding"

Capturing "The Art of Fielding":

The literary lightning bolt of the now is Chad Harbach's The Art of Fielding, a first novel that Jonathan Franzen, a writer who knows a little bit about the buzz generated by big important books, calls "complete and consuming."

It also happens to be about baseball.

A review copy of Harbach's book found its way to the clubhouse a month or so ago, and I picked hesitantly through its pages before diving in completely a week or so ago. The story is as much about a s...

"Yes, I know you're done writing. But are you done typing?"

"Yes, I know you're done writing. But are you done typing?"

- Ian, the boy wonder, recently trying to get me to play a game with him and cutting right to the crux of a modern beat writer's dilemma — when does the typing end and the writing start, and is there a difference?

A brilliant mashup of the Beastie's hit and...

A brilliant mashup of the Beastie's hit and Woodward-Bernstein's scoop.

Next up: No Sleep Till Deadline.

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Remix: 'All the President's Men' vs. the Beastie Boys' 'Sabotage'

"I can't stand it, I know you planned it, I'm gonna set it straight, this Watergate," begins the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage." All the President's Boys is one of those perfect remixes that works so well, you can't believe you didn't think of it first. Editor Jeff Yorkes "cinemashup" of footage from All the...

The Computer that wants to be a Sportswriter

ST. LOUIS - There was a legend when I was a young baseball writer that eventually every reporter covers enough games, sees enough results, and writes enough copy that he could keep a Rolodex of gamers. They could be indexed by outcome (Rout, seven runs or greater; Walk-off), theme (Injury, back from; Redemption, veteran) or feat (Home Runs, three hit; Shutout, one hit allowed). Simply spin the directory, thumb the appropriate gamer and fill in the new names, appropriate score, location and...

The Robot that wants to be a Sportswriter

ST. LOUIS - There was a legend when I was a young baseball writer that eventually every reporter covers enough games, sees enough results, and writes enough copy that he could keep a Rolodex of gamers. They could be indexed by outcome (Rout, seven runs or greater; Walk-off), theme (Injury, back from; Redemption, veteran) or feat (Home Runs, three hit; Shutout, one hit allowed). Simply spin the directory, thumb the appropriate gamer and fill in the new names, appropriate score, location and...

Amen, Opus. (From Berke Breathed's Bloom County.)

Amen, Opus. (From Berke Breathed's Bloom County.)

"Psychic? Of course I'm psychic. I'm your psychic. I'm Superboy. You're..."

"Psychic? Of course I'm psychic. I'm your psychic. I'm Superboy. You're Superman. I'm Robin, and you're Batman."

- Ian this afternoon when asked … well, you know.