The World Series

Hi All,

The Los Angeles Dodgers and the Houston Astros are playing in this years' World Series.  So far the series is tied 1-1.  

Click here for the schedule for the rest of the World Series. 

Click on this link to get the box score, summaries, video and more of all the recent World Series Games.  And to get more information about the two World Series teams click this link for the Dodgers and this link for the Astros.

For a blog post like this, believe it or not, Wikipedia is  useful for this type of entry....Wikipedia has an extensive entry on the history, rivalries and players for each of the two World Series teams.  Click here for the Dodgers and here for the Astros. 

Finally for some awesome statistics that cover the two teams, click on this link to Fangraphs for the Astros and this link for Fangraphs for the Dodgers!

Enjoy the links and the World Series!

Regards,
Stu

Cleveland Indians and Baseball Streaks

Hi All,

If you didn't know this you can be forgiven - unless you live in Cleveland or Ohio that is!

Did you know that the Cleveland Indians - yes, the Indians - have a streak going? No, not a one, or two, or even three game winning streak. 

How about a 22 game winning streak.  That means that if the Indians played a game a day - they haven't lost a game in over 3 weeks!

Click here for an article from the NYTimes about the streak.

And here from NPR - WNYC Radio about last nights' game - which went into extra innings. But they still won!  USAToday covered the game as well - and so did probably every major newspaper in America - but I wanted to cover two of the larger newspapers....

If you are a baseball fan, Wikipedia has an interesting page titled 'List of Major League Baseball Longest Winning Streaks'. 

Finally, click on this link from MLB.com to visit the Cleveland Indians' homepage.  You'll find lots of stories, statistics, articles, rosters, videos, scores, a community of like-minded Indian fans and schedules on the site.  Its a veritable encyclopedia of Cleveland Indian history! 

Enjoy the site and the links.  And how can you NOT cheer on a team with a 22 game winning streak!  Go Indians!

Regards,
Stu

The Annual Baseball Opening Day Blog Entry

Hi All, Well, I just thought of a new tradition...at the start of each season for all the major sports (Baseball, Basketball, Football, Hockey) I'm going to have an 'opening day' entry that talks about the various sports... So, here we are - it is opening day for the 2011 baseball season. Lots of baseball fans love numbers and statistics. Click here for a seriously fantastic stats oriented website (Baseball-Register.com). The folks who put this site together are remarkably obsessive, computer savvy and organized. Amazing stats from literally every baseball game ever played. Player stats, team stats and a sort function make this a baseball fans' fantasy website. Speaking of fantasy....lots of baseball fans play rotisserie (fantasy baseball). And why not, with baseball statistics part of the lore of the game it is easy to see why folks have combined computers with baseball to come up with fantasy baseball. Click here for a few of the more popular fantasy baseball websites: ESPN Fantasy Baseball Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball CBS Sports.com Now that you've picked a team for fantasy baseball, click here for a some 'perspective' on your players. Note that there are many, many, many, many more blogs to be read than just the 5 that I've listed below. Why so many blogs? Because they are so easy to create and update. Folks can create a blog in minutes and be up and writing in probably 5 minutes or less. Can you say democratization of the ideas? Some really good baseball blogs include: MLB Blogs - direct from MLB...authoritative and updated often! Baseball Blogs from the Yahoo! Directory - yep, it still works. Why did I include this? Because every major league baseball team has a blog and this link goes to all of the blogs - instead of linking each of them individually. Baseball Musings.com - not so much a blog as it is a website...includes video and, on the right side of the screen you'll see links to other baseball blogs, links to other baseball news websites, and sigh...more links to other baseball tags. This stuff is endless! Egads... Finally, if you know what a depth chart is, than congratulations, you are a seriously obsessed (in a good way, I mean) baseball fan. Click here to see depth charts from MLBDepthCharts.com. Enjoy the links, the season and the games this year. It'll be a very interesting season! Go Mets! Go Yankees! Okay, one last link - here is one of the best odes to baseball ever written - click here for a link to the book from Amazon.com. stu Friends the Farmingdale Public Library on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter by clicking here!