In my next posting I will review the new instant replay rules that will be in effect for the 2014 baseball season. However, the most missed call made by umpires is not reviewable. So what is the most missed call in baseball? Of course, it is the ball and strike call by the home-plate umpire. …
Month: March 2014
My guest-blogger Emily Su is a student in my Baseball and Statistics class. On March 6th, my boyfriend Kevin, a life-long Yankee fan, and I traveled to sunny Tampa, Florida to see something only true baseball fans will go out of their way to see, MLB Spring Training. We were there to see the Yankees …
My guest blogger is Alexander Everett., a sophomore math major at Quinnipiac University. He is also my currrent research assistant in the area of mathematics called Sabermetrics. Spring training has become a tradition for my spring break. Each year my family and I go down to Port St. Lucie and travel around south Florida to …
At the age of 49, Barry Bonds returns to the San Francisco Giants not as an active player but as a 7-day roving instructor for Giants manager Bruce Botchy. He donned a San Francisco Giants uniform for the first time since his last game in 2007. Pictures of him show a slimmed down Barry Bonds. …
Spring recess at Quinnipiac University means my wife Tara and I make another trip to Naples, Florida to visit our granddaughters. On Friday, March 7 we decided to visit the Edison-Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers. I never anticipated what I discovered. Of course I knew about many of the inventions of Thomas Edison including …
The following blog was sent to me by a guest blogger, Alex Cosgrove, who is an Associate Producer for d Q30’s Bobcat Breakdown at Quinnipiac University. As reported in yesterday’s news, Major League Baseball has adopted a new rule hoping to eliminate collision’s at home plate that pose a threat to the safety of the …