And then the Pendleton Moment happens, where something goes wrong, sometimes subtle, sometimes huge, and everything changes. Everything has swung back in the other direction and never returns.
Ghosts in the Grass: The Pendelton Moment
Opening Day Countdown (Advent Calendar): Day 14 (11 Days to Go) – Baseball Gifs
I was exploring Reddit a bit more than usual and I stumbled across a few interesting baseball subreddits I had not seen before. Included in those (and I am not sure how I missed it before) is r/baseballgifs which, among the top of all time include not only a gif of his accuracy in throwing but his pillow fighting skills, as well.
Opening Day Countdown (Advent Calendar): Day 13 (12 Days to Go) – Strange Endings
I am not sure I would have labeled this as the Craziest Endings in Baseball History, but they sure are entertaining.
Opening Day Countdown (Advent Calendar): Day 12 (13 days to go) – Physics of a Curveball
When I was a kid, I remember my physics teacher telling my class that if somehow you could throw a curveball in space, it would go in a full circle back to you, basically hitting you in the back. Now, this seems like pure bunk to me in hindsight, but I got curious about the mechanics of a curveball.
Opening Day Countdown (Advent Calendar): Day 11 (14 days to go) – Grave Sites
The Baseball Almanac is another one of those old-school websites where it looks like very little has changed.
Opening Day Countdown (Advent Calendar): Day 10 – Spitball Magazine
Looking for a new book on baseball to read? Interested in some prose or poetry on the National Pastime? Spitball Magazine has you covered.
Opening Day Countdown (Advent Calendar): Day 9 – Making a Wooden Bat
ay we visit the Louisville Slugger Bat factory to see how the bats Major League Baseball uses are made. (That branding is pretty cool.)
Opening Day Countdown (Advent Calendar): Day 8 – SABR
At its heart, it is a group of individuals that just love this game and look to add to it through research and statistics and their depth of knowledge about the history of the game.
Opening Day Countdown (Advent Calendar): Day 7 – 2021 Top Plays
Day 7 is a simple visit to 2021 and the top 100 plays of the season.
Opening Day Countdown (Advent Calendar): Day 6 – Artist Dick Perez
At the start of the pandemic, in May 2020, he created a slideshow of art titled "Baseball in New York" to try to help us all deal with the absence of our pastime.
Standing at Third 