Sports & Baseball (intersection of tags)

Major Leauge Baseball’s website doesn’t allow you to have a password over 10 characters. They used to allow you to go beyond 10 characters, but now, for some odd reason, they limit it to ten. Maybe they want someone to…

There are so many different baseball card sets, it’s interesting to see the different designs from all the years. The cards from the 80s are soooo 80s design (check out the 87 fleer design pictured above). So are the 90s…

There’s a cool application on facebook called Baseball Trading Cards where you can collect and sell virtual cards for free. If you collect an entire team, you get a special Hall of Fame/Fan Favorite card. There are several of these…

MLB.com has a game called Beat the Streak where you try to put together a hitting streak to beat baseball’s legendary record of 56 games. Choose one player every day who you think will get at least one base hit.…

Here are my four favorite baseball websites: baseball-reference.com My favorite source for quick stats. Plus, it’s just fun to tool around on the site, looking at random stats. hardballtimes.com Great writing on baseball desipio.com Hilarious coverage of the Cubs cubscast.com…

Every year the two teams with the worst records should be banned from playing baseball for one year. That means the Pittsburgh Pirates (2007 record: 68-94 .420) and Tampa Bay Devil Rays (2007 record: 66-96 .407) would be be banned…

I’m a lifetime Cubs fan. But I’m also gonna root for the Mets now. I only know a couple baseball fans on AIM and one of them is a Mets fan. Why not root for them too? Reasons not to…

If i was Wrigley Company, I would buy the naming rights to Wrigley Field from Sam Zell. But I would name it Wrigley Spearmint Field one year. Then Wrigley Wintergreen Field another year. Juicy Fruit Field another year. That way…

With the millions of dollars that baseball players get paid, you’d think there would be a good sizable list of players who contribute to their presidential candidate of choice. There’s not. In fact, there are only two current major league…

If you could see any sports event from the past, which one would you want to see? I’d have to go with a World Series from the deadball era of baseball (pre 1918). Since we are in that time era,…

Cubs playoff tickets. A great thing to have. Game four. Certainly there would be a game four, right? Not with these Chicago Cubs. They got swept by the Arizona Snakes in three games. Ouch. It‚Äôs certainly disappointing to see the…

You too can immediately have a cool last name! Just add “ko” to the end of your last name, and POW, you are now cool. Try it now. “Hi, I’m Matt Maldreko.” I’m gonna start writing in “ko” after my…

America’s Funniest Home Videos becomes A LOT more funny once you own your own video camera. (hint, watch the show with the sound OFF, their stupid commentary ruins the videos). Whenever there is a Cubs or Sox game during work,…

Most favored to road team: Mike Everitt (Road team wins 61.8% of the time) Most favored to home team: Tom Hallion (Home team wins 72.2% of the time) Lowest average run total: Doug Eddings (7.9 runs per game) Highest average…

(Matt Stairs’ rookie card in 1993) I’m dedicating today, May 25, 2007 to the Major League ballplayer Matt Stairs. In the past week, the 39-year-old journeyman has hit 4 homeruns. That is hilarious for a number of reasons: 1) That…

I like to keep very detailed scorecards. I’ll jot down lots of extra information. View the series in high-res in my flickr “Baseball Scorecard” set (or just click each image below to see the hi-res version). You can also hear…

Which player has the best name in the Minor Leagues? Minors Moniker Madness

Here’s a photo of Chicago Cubs’ Alfonso Soriano posing during “picture day.” It makes me wonder if this is a Chicago Cubs internal “picture day” (for marketing materials) or a MLB.com “picture day.” Given the ivy background, I would think…

There should be a list of the official team colors for professional teams. So I’m starting one here. I’m accepting the colors for any team in the NHL, NFL, MLB, and NBA. Seeing that I’m a designer for the Tribune,…

The number in parenthesis is the number of hits the post got in 2006. list of four-letter words with three vowels (6,163) I’m just amazed that this is number one. Wild Chicago Archives (4,353) No suprise here. WTTW should have…

In addition to tracking the typical stats from a baseball game on a scorecard, why not add some fun stuff too.

(This post is supposed to appear on Tuesday, December 12, but since I mention this in my funny auto-reply email away message at work, i’m posting it earlier) On this day in December 12, 1930, Major League Baseball changes a…

Only eight players have hit 20 or more triples in one season since 1945: 23 Dale Mitchell 1949 22 Snuffy Stirnweiss 1945 21 Lance Johnson 1996 21 Willie Wilson 1985 20 Cristian Guzman 2000 20 George Brett 1979 20 Willie…

(photo under creative commons license from dgphilli) Here’s all the stats the Cubs had leaders in for the 2006 season: SLG %: 9th-Ramirez .561 Total Bases: 8th-Ramirez 333 Homeruns: 9th-Ramirez 38 RBI: 6th-Ramirez 119 Extra Base Hits: 6th-Ramirez 80 Games:…

I liked yesterday’s photo so much, that here’s a blog post dedicated to just this photo. You can find it on the MLB website selling a “Property of Bonds” tshirt. It’s interesting the depth of committment MLB has towards Bonds–a…

Upper deck ticket holders are banned from going onto the main concourse and lower level at U.S. Cellular Field. Not just banned from the lower level seats (understandable), but… –Banned from walking in walkways –Banned from visiting the shops –Banned…

Yesterday my family had first row seats in section 224 at Wrigley Field. Sounds like great seats, nobody in front of you to block your view. Think again. There’s a busy walkway in front of the first row where people…

It’s amazing that this one designer has done the logos for ‚Ä¢ American League 100th Anniversary ‚Ä¢ Anaheim Angels ‚Ä¢ Basketball Hall of Fame ‚Ä¢ Milwaukee Brewers (1994-1999) ‚Ä¢ Brooklyn Cyclones (minor league baseball) ‚Ä¢ Fenway Park 90th Anniversary ‚Ä¢…

When you go to Google Maps and look up the Chicago White Sox ballpark (U.S. Cellular Field), it looks like a toilet. How appropriate.

On Saturday, April 22, 2006 the Chicago Cubs had a garage sale at Wrigley Field. Here’s the scoop on what was sold, the atmosphere, and a guide on how to attack events like this in the future: What was sold…

The renovated bleachers at Wrigley Field now allow bleacher ticket holders to go to the non-bleacher parts of the park. They stamp your hand with a BB upon leaving the bleachers. BB–how funny that the Chicago Cubs marks the bleacher…