Observing Baseball
I grew up a Yankee fan, I favor Pitchers whenever possible, I am a stathead, and my dream job is to be a GM for an MLB franchise. In the summer, I go to MLB games and catch baseballs. In the winter, I write about what teams are doing to get better or worse. I try to be positive and unbiased in my writing, but that isn't always possible when evaluating teams truthfully.
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- 5/10/13 Orioles at Twins: Target Field May 23, 2013
- BallhawkFest Video May 14, 2013
- 4/26/13 Rangers at Twins: Target Field May 1, 2013
- 4/25/13 Rangers at Twins: Target Field April 28, 2013
- 4/17/13 Angels at Twins: Target Field (sort of) April 27, 2013
- 4/16/13 Angels at Twins: Target Field April 26, 2013
- 4/15/13 Angels at Twins: Target Field April 25, 2013
- 4/13/13 Mets at Twins: Target Field April 19, 2013
- “42″ Movie Review April 18, 2013
- 4/12/13 Mets at Twins: Target Field April 17, 2013
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- December 2012 (7)
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- February 2012 (14)
- January 2012 (19)
- December 2011 (15)
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Ballhawk Interviews
Ballhawk Profiles
Ballhawking Sites
- #Ballhawking Robbie Sacunas, a Pittsburgh-based ballhawk’s blog.
- 7000 Coliseum Way Nick Badders’ ballhawking/baseball blog. He’s a ballhawk from the Bay Area, by the way.
- A Piece of The Game The second of the two newer Minnesota ballhawk friends, Paul Kom’s blog.
- Collection of Baseball I’ve written a bunch of words about this and Wayne Peck’s other blog. You can see those by typing: MLBlogs I Recommend: Collection of Baseball & A View From the Bullpen, or some combination of those words in the search bar up at the top of the blog.
- Cook & Sons' Baseball Adventures Although most ballhawking blogs are, Todd Cook’s narrative of his and his sons’ adventures going to ballparks is the closest thing there is to a father-son-baseball written reality show.
- Hit Tracker An amazing tool that was responsible for my success at Yankee Stadium in 2010. See Season end review (Nov, 1, 2010) if you want to see the difference @ Yankee Stadium.
- My Game Balls The ballhawking community’s mode of communication and competetion
- My mygameballs.com account Specifically *my* account on mygameballs.com which has much more detailed stats than I have time to write about
- Plouffe's New Hairdo One of my new Minnesota friends, Tony Voda’s ballhawking/Twins/music-in-the-offseason-but-sometimes-during-the-season-too blog.
- Steel City Ballhawk A blog written by elite ballhawk, Nick Pelescak, about all of the games he attends, which is a ton since he is a season ticket holder at PNC Park.
- The Ballhawker The ballhawking blog of a fellow New York ballhawk, Chris Hernandez.
- The Inherent Dangers of Watching Professional Baseball The ballhawking blog of one of the most decorated ballhawks ever home runs-wise: Shawn Bosman.
- Zack Hample (The Baseball Collector) Now If you are reading this blog there is a .00009 % chance that you haven’t visited this blog, but as a service to the reason this blog exists I want to have Zack add that .00009% to his viewership. It is the least I can do.
Blast from the Baseball Past
- 8/23/08 Dodgers at Phillies: Citizens Bank Park My first game ever at CBP, which I showed up in the third inning of because my dad could never get into the city of Philadelphia.
- 8/24/08 Dodgers at Phillies: Citizens Bank Park My second ever game to CBP that ended with Pedro Feliz hitting a three-run walk-off home run while my dad and I were in the car because we had to catch a flight to Detroit seven hours later that same day in New York.
- 8/25/08 Indians at Tigers: Comerica Park My first game ever at Comerica Park.
- 8/26/08 Indians at Tigers: Comerica Park First video BBP.
Characters of Observing Baseball
Game Entries from the Different Stadiums I've Been to
Games in Which I've Snagged a Game Ball
- 7/23/12 Nationals at Mets: Citi Field Danny Espinosa foul ball.
- 7/5/11 Rockies at Braves: Turner Field Nate McLouth foul ball snagged on the fly.
- 8/1/11 Marlins at Mets: Citi Field Angel Pagan foul ball
- 9/13/12 Royals at Twins: Target Field Trevor Plouffe’s game-tying ninth inning home run.
- 9/14/12 White Sox at Twins: Target Field Justin Morneau foul ball.
MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
MLBlogs I Recommend
MLBlogs I Recommend and Follow
- Ballparks on a Budget Ever want to go to a baseball game outside of your local team but don’t want to empty the bank? Alicia Barnhart’s your girl with Ballparks on a Budget. She should know how to spend wisely in going to games because, well, she’s been to them all. Just last
- Dodger Blue World Just a great blog written by dedicated Dodger super-fan Emma Amaya.
- Minoring In Baseball A blog written by the father of just a family who are all fans of the West Michigan Whitecaps who is just a great guy in general: Michael David.
- MLB.com Blogs Central As the title kind of suggests, this blog is pretty much the center of the MLBlogs unvierse. It apply sometimes goes by the moniker: “MLBlogosphere”
- The Ballpark Guide A MUST-read for any MiLB afficionados, or even many MLB fans. Malcolm MacMillan goes to different ballparks all over and details his visit on the blog and writes tips for anyone going to that ballpark on his website (which can be found on the blog’s homep
- The Next White Sox GM If you were a baseball mind growing up, you may have gotten a comment from an elder female family member (usually grandma) saying, “You should be the one to run the team with all the knowledge you’ve got about baseball.” Well, here’s a kid who might just
- The Unbiased MLB Fan Matt Huddleston doesn’t root for the teams; he roots for the players. I wish I could say more, but I suspect any other explanation of his blog would be a multi-centennial-word ordeal.
- This is a very simple game… A great Angels-centric blog Kristen Brown writes.
- Three Up, Three Down One would assume not getting into the MLB Fan Cave is a sad experience. (Well, at least I would; I’ve never been old enough to apply.) However, this group of fans turned that usually-sad experience and turned it into a great blog where there are just a sl
Observing Baseball Classics
- "The Baseball" Book Review In this entry I reviewed/summarized the entirety of the book “The Baseball: Stunts, Scandals, and Secrets Beneath the Stitches” written by Zack Hample.
- 10/19/10 ALCS: Yankee Stadium Sure I had no clue how to write it, but this was my first ballhawking entry ever and my only of 2010, so it falls under the category “classic”
- Ballhawk Charities 2012 Where I went over the four ballhawk charities I had heard of at the beginning of the season as a way of helping them out by getting the word out.
- Case Study on Morality in Baseball A research paper I did way back in the summer of 2010. I don’t necessarily agree with everything I wrote back then anymore, but it does add an interesting perspective to things especially in today’s steroid talk.
- Collected Baseball Knick-knacks Quite simply: pretty much everything baseball-related that I had collected and managed to keep ahold of as of November, 20, 2011.
- Dissecting/Deconstructing Baseballs I’ve taken apart several baseballs before, and it was fun, so I decided to make a video of me taking apart a baseball and adding tips for other people to do so too.
- Favorite MLB Players I did probably one of my funner videos on who my favorite players were from the present day, when I first started watching baseball, and my favorite player that I never saw play at all.
- Houlihan Park Tour and Snagging Analysis This is my high school, Fordham Prep,’s home field, which being the manager of the varsity team for three years, I spent proabably more games here than at any other baseball field. So when I returned to my high school for a day, I took a quick tour of the
- Junior Ballhawk of the Year I won this award, and it was a great honor, so I wrote an entry about tthe fact that I won the award.
- New Observing Baseball Icon Part 2 This is where I unveiled the icon that I use for…everything. Enough said.
- Observing Baseball Trivia See the description of the link two links above, but modify it slightly so it fits this entry’s title.
- Pitching Aces in the Playoffs My first ever “real” entry that I ever wrote back on the surplus of star pitchers in the 2010 playoffs. It was pretty good considering I knew nothing about blogging, or writing in general for that matter.
- Pure Genius This is just me explaining how the Phillies got three aces of pitchers; nothing fancy. But it was me showing my first flash of general manager mind to the world, so that’s why I like it.
- Sabermetrics (the explanation) This was me explaining some simple sabermetric statistics for the people of the world who have heard of the stats but never really knew what significance they had/have over the more common metrics. I take pride in this because it can potentially educate s
- Survey of Adults Perception of Baseball I surveyed a bunch of my teacher as to which baseball player was there favorite; both in and outside of New York. It’s a bit more complex than that, but the only way to understand is to read the entry.
- The Bergino Baseball Clubhouse The entry of my visit to an absolutely great New York baseball store.
- Tour Target Field in the Snow Target Field is in Minnesota, so it only felt fitting that I should take at least one day to tour it while it was buried in the snow. And that’s what this entry was: a video of me going around Target Field while it was snowing and there was a ton of snow
- Weird Observing Baseball Facts and Records I may yet do this every year…and it would then become its own link category–but for the meantime–there is only one set of Observing Baseball Facts and Records, so it definitely goes under “Observing Baseball Classics”.
Offseason Recap and Previews 2011
Re-view of the Preview
Stadium Profiles
Trips to Minor League Stadiums
- 4/10/12 Fordham Prep at Elmira: Ticketreturn.com Field When my high school team got the chance to play at a minor league stadium in Myrtle Beach, SC
- 4/11/12 Potomac Nationals at Myrtle Beach Pelicans: Ticketreturn.com Field My first ever “legitamate” minor league game as a semi-ballhawk (I wasn’t really interested in snagging baseballs as much as I was just trying to have fun with going to a game as a ballhawk). In other words, I wanted to try to ballhawk, but my measure of
- 4/29/12 St. Raymonds at Fordham Prep: Richmond County Bank Ballpark
Top Posts & Pages
- 5/10/13 Orioles at Twins: Target Field
- 7/5/12 Giants at Nationals: Nationals Park
- 4/26/13 Rangers at Twins: Target Field
- "The Baseball" book review
- Collected Baseball knick-knacks
- 9/13/12 Royals at Twins: Target Field
- 4/25/13 Rangers at Twins: Target Field
- 8/16/11 Indians at White Sox: US Cellular Field
- 9/16/12 White Sox at Twins: Target Field
- 9/30/12 Tigers at Twins: Target Field
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I only get one vote in the poll? Damn.
Tim- I guess you just have to get 10 game home runs next year. If it’s any consolation, you got two votes to be the one I interviewed. That and the Pittsburgh people got really involved in these two more than really anyone else, and you know there was that whole “we’re the capital of the ballhawk world! ‘No, we are!’” thing a couple years ago. I don’t know; I was kind of surprised myself.
I was only being sarcastic. Doesn’t matter to me at all!
Tim- Oh, I know. That’s why I returned the favor.
I really like the video. I think it is great to interview different ballhawks. Pittsburgh is a great stadium. It sounds like a lot of fun to go ballhawking there.
-Quinn
Quinn- Thanks; as much fun as it was, though, I’d like to do every entry type before I start doing repeats, so it might be a while before I do another one of these.