Monday, April 16, 2007

99 Baseball things from a sometimes twisted view

A veritable hodgepodge of stuff related to baseball in list form, but believe it or not, nothing related to fantasy. As you will see, some are just personal favorites..

In alphabetical order..

1. Amazin' Mets
2. Angels in the Outfield (1951)
3. Annie Savoy
4. Aribba, Aribba
5. Autunm Classic
6. Babe calls his shot (or not?)
7. Bad News Bears
8. Ball Four
9. Barry Pepper - playing the role of Roger Maris in 61*
10. Baseball Encyclopedia
11. Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez
12. Big Hurt
13. Big Poison and Little Poison
14. Big Red Machine
15. Big Unit
16. Bill James
17. Black Betsy
18. Black Sox
19. Bleeding Dodger Blue
20. Bob Uecker - playing the role of Harry Doyle in Major League
21. Box Scores
22. Boys of Summer
23. Bucky F***ing Dent
24. Bull Durham
25. Cal taking a victory lap for the fans at Camden Yards, 2131
26. Can of Corn
27. Chico Ruiz Steals Home! Phillies blow the '64 pennant
28. Clemente - arms flailing wildly, rounding 2nd, heading for 3rd
29. Cooperstown
30. Crack of the bat
31. Crash Davis
32. Curse of the Bambino
33. David Halberstam
34. Dizzy and Daffy
35. Donnie Baseball
36. Ernie Harwell
37. ESPN's Baseball Tonight
38. Felipe, Jesus and Mateo Alou
39. Field of Dreams
40. Fisk waving his Home Run fair
41. Fitted Hat Night at Yankee Stadium - Seinfeld, season 5
42. Forbes Field
43. Fritz Peterson & Mike Kekich (Yankees) swap wives & families, spring training 1973
44. Gas House Gang
45. Gehrig saying he was the luckiest man on the face of the Earth
46. Green Monster
47. Hammerin' Hank
48. Hot Stove League
49. Joe L. Brown
50. Joltin Joe DiMaggio
51. Junior
52. Keith Hernandez as "The Boyfirend" - Seinfeld, season 3
53. Keeping a Scorecard
54. Lumber Company
55. Mantle Rookie Card
56. Maz
57. McGwire hugging the Maris kids
58. Mendoza Line
59. Moneyball
60. Moonlight Graham
61. Mr. October
62. Mudville Nine
63. Nuke LaLoosh
64. Opening Day
65. Peter Gammons
66. Pine Tar Game
67. Pitchers and Catchers Report
68. Roger Kahn
69. Roy Hobbs
70. Rule 5 Draft
71. Say it ain't so Joe, say it ain't so
72. Schilling's Bloody Sock
73. Seventh Inning Stretch
74. Slugfests
75. Spitball Literary Magazine
76. Splendid Splinter
77. Stan the Man
78. Stargell windmilling the bat
79. Steve Bartman
80. Sultan of Swat
81. The Gunner and his partner The Possum
82. The Natural
83. The Rocket
84. The Sandlot
85. The Shot Heard 'Round the World
86. This Week in Baseball (TWIB)
87. Tigers Old English 'D'
88. Tinker to Evers to Chance
89. Tony C.
90. Topps, Fleer and Upper Deck
91. Vin Scully
92. When It Was a Game (HBO)
93. Whiz Kids
94. Wild Thing
95. Willie Mays
96. Willie Mays Hayes
97. Winter Meetings
98. Wrigley
99. Yankee Pinstripes


Feel free to add #100 (or more).....