One of the items asked for by readers from our September customer survey was to have things in addition to our regular articles. One of the suggestions was to have interviews with non-team personnel. Below is an email correspondence with longtime reader and occasional writer Chris F. You no doubt recognize the name, as Chris [...]
If you are a fan of both art and baseball, and you don't know the name Graig Kriendler, you are certainly missing out. With portraits that look like real images at a glance, there is no denying the value that Kriendler brings by digging out memories of ballplayers and their exploits and bringing them back [...]
INTERVIEW WITH JEFF GROSE: PART 2 Last week in this space we featured part 1 of our discussion with Jeff Grose. We heard about his early days with the Mets, Spring Training memories, and the onset of arm troubles. We wrap up today with his recollections of some of his teammates, the emotional end of [...]
INTERVIEW WITH JEFF GROSE: PART 1 Back in November of 2014, Card of the Week's Mystery Met episode 9 featured a fresh-faced '70s prospect named Jeff Grose. The internet being the strange and magical thing that it is, the piece made its way back to Grose, who left a quick note in the comments section. [...]
If there was a contest on who could catch the most fly balls in the stands of a baseball game, Zack Hample would far and away be the winner. Hample has caught a countless number of historical home runs, including Mike Trout’s first, Shea Stadium’s last, and Alex Rodriguez’s 3000th hit. This past weekend, I [...]
There are a ton of people who write about the Mets and I am happy to say that most of them seem to be good people, too. I guess it is not a huge surprise that the guys at the biggest sites – Cerrone and Baron at MetsBlog and Simon, Kannengeiser, Artus and crew over [...]
It has been said that baseball is the All-American game. Perhaps even more American is the idea of baseball cards. So imagine my surprise when I came across some really neat baseball cards made by a French artist – Amelie Mancini. As if the cards weren’t cool enough, it turns out that Mancini now lives [...]
One of my freelance jobs is working as the official scorer for the Copperheads in the Coastal Plain League, a summer collegiate baseball league a la the Cape Cod League. Last week I received a call from David Camp, the team’s general manager, who told me that new Mets pitcher Taylor Tankersley was working out [...]