New SABR Games Project jawn 🚨 brings us back to high school, with the story of a teenage future Red Sox legend turning in a two-way pitching and outfield performance to help his team to the Eastern Mass. HS final: sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...
these charts are always fun.
Pick hit in this one: The Cars/The Motels double bill sounds like it should be a deep dive into American neon noir
uncharacteristically, I can’t find my ticket stub for the game. I think mine went into a babby’s-first-year scrapbook for the lad; it’s in the house but I won’t dig for it
I find it hilarious that this shows up on the MLB feed.
On the other hand, I’m enjoying the thought that some happy cricket fan somewhere is playing Remember Some Guys with Mark Ramprakash
Aw, hell. The place ought to be a protected national landmark just for Tres Hombres.
there’s usually a crazy big bridge in this picture
Of course the box score is a feastival of guys to remember. Eric Valent! Johnny Estrada! Eddie Oropesa! Pete Schourek!
there are almost 5,700 stories in the Games Project archive.
By my (possibly flawed) count, this is only the fourth about high school baseball, and the other three are about citywide or regional all-star games.
So, something different.