On Wednesday, January 6, 2016 Baseball’s Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson announced that former Seattle Mariners great Ken Griffey Jr. was among two players elected to the Hall as part of the Class of 2016. Griffey becomes the 51st first ballot Hall of Fame member, and joins Mike Piazza in this year’s class. Griffey received …
My previous two blog postings were about the 996 Major League players who appeared in just one Major League game in their careers. I called this special group of players The Cup of Coffee Club(The CCC). It only seems fitting to go to the other extreme, that is, to present the players who were active in …
Many of my past blogs had the same theme. That theme was “Baseball follows me where ever I go.” It was three years ago when I was meeting my new biostatistics class at Quinnipiac University that baseball did follow me into my classroom. Reading from my new class list I came across the name Dale …
On April 22, 2013, I was invited to speak at Amity Regional HS in CT. Unlike some other trips this was a short excursion of 30 minutes from my house. I was told that I would be talking to an AP Statistics Class, other math students and teachers. I wanted to choose a statistics topic …