Tag: Opening Day

Some of my Favorite Baseball Spots on the Internet

I view baseball Opening Day as the same as Christmas morning. It is one of my favorite times of the year. So, as we approached the 2022 Opening Day, I did a countdown, sort of like an advent calendar, but instead of a little toy behind each flap on a box, I posted a new link to some of my favorite locations on the internet.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.)

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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.

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