Opening Day: The 2014 Baseball Season Opens Today

Hi All,

The 2014 Baseball Season opens today!  Why Time Begins on Opening Day is a book by Thomas Boswell that pay homage to the great American game - baseball.  Click on this link from Amazon.com to take a look at the book.

Take a look at this link and you'll find an article similar in content to that of Thomas Boswell's book, Why Time Begins on Opening Day...In this case, we're talking about an online article written by someone from SportsOnEarth.com.  It gives a brief (paragraph length) summary of all the Major League Baseball teams.  Interesting article...with some really neat photos.

The 'official' Major League Baseball site - click here to visit - is an awesome place to get statistics, up-to-the-minute news, score, photos, videos and much, much more about every single Major League Baseball player and team!!!

The Sporting News has traditionally been the 'newspaper' of choice that covers the four major sports - baseball, football, hockey and basketball.  Since the appearance of the internet, the importance of this venerable publication (it used to be published weekly...) has decreased. That said, it still has a major presence on the web - as you can see from this link to The Sporting News.  The link goes to the MLB section of the site - which has a massive amount of information.

For example, there are portions of the site that cover MLB News, Fantasy Baseball, Spring Training, Scores, Schedules, Standings, Statistics, Teams, Players, Injuries, Tickets and MLB Shop. Whew....that's a long, long list!

Other sites that are celebrating MLB's Opening Day include ESPN and CBS Sports. Note that these other sites also have sections related to statistics, players, standings, news, schedules and much more.

For the hardcore baseball fan who loves statistics, you might want to visit Baseball-Reference.com.  It is another awesome site for player and team statistics! 

Click on these three links for some random blogs of note - and of interest.
BaseballBlogs.org
BaseballMusings.com
Beyond the Box Score - A Saber-Slanted Baseball Community
Society for American Baseball Research - SABR

This is a virtual plethora of baseball information and news!  Enjoy the sites.

Finally, click the following links - they are all about 'celebrating' MLB's Opening Day in 2014.

'C-span Celebrates Opening Day with a Compilation of Congressional Baseball Mentions'.  Very cute.

New York Times: For Opening Day, a Campaign to Love Baseball

Should Opening Day Be a National Holiday?

Finally (part 2) click on this link for 'the best Android Apps for the 2014 Baseball Season..'

Enjoy the links, the games, and the season!

Regards,
Stu

Stalagtites and Stalagmites

Hi All,

Here's a fun/interesting/educational (I hope at least) entry for today's blog...

Sitting here at the reference desk I can see windows of the library. Just outside these windows I can see ice forming and snow hanging from the roof. This got me thinking about a class I took years and years ago on geology....

So - what are those hanging pieces of ice called? And correspondingly, what are the pieces of ice and snow called that form on the ground when the snow drips and forms ice on the grouns?

Stalagtites and stalagmites that's what.

Click here for a brief entry about stalagtites from Wikipedia. Click here for some really cool photos of various stalagtites. A lot of the time stalagtites and stalagmites form in caves underground.

So what is the difference between stalagtites and stalagmites? Click here for a bit of info on this from How Stuff Works.com

FYI, the simple answer is stalagtites hang from the ceiling of a cave - stalagmites form from the ground by dripping 'stuff' from the ceiling. Think of it this way - stalagtites hold tight to the ceiling...stalagmites don't they form on the ground.

Okay...enough geology for today.

Let's move on to something warm - as in the Yankees and Mets schedule for 2011.

Click here for the 2011 Yankees schedule.
Click here for the 2011 Mets schedule.

Hope this warms you up a bit on such a cold, rainy, sleety, snowy winter day.

Regards,
Stu

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