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John Dewan’s Stat of the Week™
THE 2010 FIELDING BIBLE AWARDS have been officially announced after the first unanimous winner in the five-year history of the Fielding Bible Awards. Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina won his fourth consecutive Fielding Bible Award with a perfect score of 100, 26 points ahead of second-place finisher Carlos Ruiz. Joining Molina as repeat winners are Ichiro [...]
November 1, 2010
Tags: Bill James, Bill James Handbook, defense, Fielding Bible, Hardball Times Annual, Peter Gammons Posted in: awards, book, fielding, John Dewan, Stat of the Week, stats 
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Doug Glanville new book and appearances
Former Cubs outfielder Doug Glanville is one of my favorite baseball writers. Educated at Penn, the Ivy Leaguer writes about baseball from an insider’s perspective for the New York Times, contributes on-air to ESPN television and appears on countless other radio and television shows. Not only is he a fine writer, but he brings the [...]
May 10, 2010
Tags: Borders Books, Doug Glanville, ESPN, Harry Caray's Tavern, New York Times, Take Me Out to the Ballgame, The Book Stall, The Game From Where I Stand Posted in: book, game of baseball, news, oldschool, players No Comments
Curse? There Ain’t No Stinking Cubs Curse
Inevitably, talk of whether there is a curse on the Chicago Cubs comes up each season, usually from outsiders or someone looking to stir the pot a bit. Let me go on record as believing the only curse that affects the Cubs is that of a history of bad decisions. No supernatural hexes, no goats, just the natural [...]
March 27, 2010
Tags: billygoat, Chicago Cubs, Curse, James Wolfe, Mary Ann Pressman, There Ain't No Stinking Chicago Cub Curse Posted in: book, Chicago, controversy, curse/superstition, Team Ownership One Comment
Jim Hendry’s Christmas Wish List
A CubHub.net exclusive! We have intercepted Jim Hendry’s Christmas wish list! Yes, even the Cubs GM makes requests of Santa Claus and the Clark-Addison Cubs fan blog has obtained his 2009 Christmas wishes. Sources familiar with the matter indicate Mr. Hendry has petitioned Jolly Ol’ St. Nick to aid him in his turnaround of the [...]
November 24, 2009
Tags: 50 Bosses Worse Than Yours, Baseball America, Baseball Handbook, Bill James, Christmas, coffee, iPod, iTunes, Jim Hendry, Kindle, lightning in a bottle, Milton Bradley, Prospect Handbook, Santa Claus, The Baseball Project Posted in: book, Jim Hendry, lineup, oddities 4 Comments
John Dewan’s Stat of the Week™
Who are the Fielding Bible Award winners for 2009? THE 2009 FIELDING BIBLE AWARDS have been officially announced after one of the closest races in the history of the award centered around the keystone sack. Second basemen Aaron Hill, Dustin Pedroia and Chase Utley finished with 76, 76 and 73 points respectively, forcing a tie-breaking [...]
November 2, 2009
Tags: Aaron Hill, Albert Pujols, Bill James, Carl Crawford, Fielding Bible, Franklin Gutierrez, Hardball Times, Ichiro Suzuki, Jack Wilson, Mark Buehrle, Ryan Zimmerman, Yadier Molina Posted in: awards, book, fielding, John Dewan, Stat of the Week, stats No Comments
John Dewan’s Stat of the Week™
The Latest Scoop In the previous edition of Stat of the Week, we took a small sample from Baseball Info Solutions’ Enhanced Fielding data to compare Jason Giambi and Mark Teixeira‘s ability to scoop bad throws at first base. We showed that while Teixeira scoops more balls than Giambi, he also plays the field more [...]
August 26, 2009
Tags: Baseball Info Solutions, Derrek Lee, Fielding Bible, Jason Giambi, John Dewan, Mark Teixeira Posted in: book, John Dewan, Stat of the Week, stats No Comments
On the Cubs beat with Bruce Miles
Possibly one of the great jobs to have is that of beat writer for a major league baseball team. Free tickets, great seats, access to all aspects of the game… my view from the cheap seats (i.e. as a blogger) is being a beat writer is a great gig to have. That may well be, but of [...]
April 26, 2009
Tags: beat writer, Bleed Cubbie Blue, blog, Bruce Miles, Chicago's Inside Pitch, Cubbies, Daily Herald, Desipio, Goat Riders, Harry Caray, Hire Jim Essian, Ivy Chat, Mark Cuban, MLBtradeRumors, North Side Baseball, Paul Sullivan, Rod Beck, Rush, Ryan Dempster, The Natural, Tim Dierkes Posted in: book, feature, game of baseball, interview, the media No Comments
Cubs By The Numbers book review
There is a new book available titled Cubs By The Numbers by Al Yellon (of the blog Bleed Cubbie Blue), Kasey Ignarski and Matthew Silverman (who also wrote Mets By The Numbers) and published by Skyhorse Publishing. The book is more than 300 pages, devoting a chapter for each uniform number worn by Cubs players [...]
April 20, 2009
Tags: Al Yellon, Bleed Cubbie Blue, Cubs Annual 2009, Cubs By The Numbers, Ernie Banks, Hoyt Wilhelm, Johnny Vander Meer, Kasey Ignarski, Matt Silverman, Rick Aguilera, Ryne Sandberg, Sammy Sosa, Skyhorse Publishing, Yahoo Sports Posted in: book, observations, review One Comment
Review: Cubs Annual 2009
The Cubs Annual 2009 from Maple Street Press looks like a magazine but reads like a book. With 128 glossy color pages there are just two advertisements; one for the Boise Cubs minor league affiliate and the other for the publisher. Edited by ubiquitous Cubs expert Al Yellon of popular blog Bleed Cubbie Blue, this volume is packed [...]
April 2, 2009
Tags: Al Yellon, Bleed Cubbie Blue, book, Bruce Miles, Cubs Annual 2009, George Castle, Len Kasper, Maple Street Press, Paul Sullivan Posted in: book, feature, review 3 Comments
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