Baseball Geek Group: Jimm Hendren – ‘Out of the Park Baseball 15’ review

If your baseball team didn't make the playoffs this year, you may be grumbling that, if only they’d signed this player or not signed that player, or had used different tactics, then all would be different. In short, things would be better if only you were in charge of the team. Well now you can see for yourself if that's true. “Out of...

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Baseball Geek Group: Jimm Hendren - My Review of "The Major League Baseball Hateability Index"

Today, the Wall Street Journal published "The Major League Baseball Hateability Index", which is a purportedly scientific study about who the most hateable team in the 2014 Major League Baseball playoffs is. Apparently last year the title was won by the Los Angeles Dodgers and this year’s was won by the St. Louis Cardinals. Hey, the Cardinals! I...

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Baseball Geek Group: Jimm Hendren - Parents throw more complaints against Vernon Hills baseball

Another group of parents have approached the Vernon Hills Park District with complaints about the Cougars Youth Athletic Association. Tim Nockels and a few others attended the Sept. 18 Park Board of Commissioners meeting with a petition asking for an in-house baseball league to be resurrected. The group says the Cougars program has decayed...

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Baseball - The small and big kid’s dream game by the Baseball Geek Group: Jimm Hendren

We played baseball as kids when it was the most popular game in the world, way ahead of soccer, and basketball was still a poor third-placer. We played it in the school yard using a tennis ball and became the highlight of every school boy’s day. We knew and followed the basic rules of the game although we did not use mittens or masks. We played barefoot because we went to school barefoot. We were...

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