Archives: baseball

Special report: World Series 2019; new information on Edith Cavell: newsletter, Nov. 1, 2019

November 4, 2019 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: baseball, journalism, newsletter, writing.

This newsletter was sent to everyone on Jim’s email list (2,666) on Friday, November 1, 2019. One of my life-long dreams was fulfilled last weekend when I had the opportunity to attend a World Series game at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. I have written a long report on it for this newsletter, divided it • Read More »

More on Nancy Drew, Charles Finch on writing a mystery, and Tunnel 29: newsletter, October 25, 2019

October 26, 2019 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: baseball, journalism, newsletter, writers, writing.

This newsletter was sent to everyone on Jim’s email list (2,653) on Friday, October 25, 2019.   We got rain again this weekend, and we got more on Monday night. After a two- to three-month stretch with almost no rain at all, the world is beginning to feel good again in East Tennessee. In the • Read More »

Dan and Jim: A baseball dialogue

May 2, 2018 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: baseball.

My good friend Dan, proof-reader extraordinaire, and I had this email exchange a couple of weeks ago: DAN: Hi Jim, So, what do you think of the Angels Shohei Ohtani? He is 2-0 as a pitcher in two starts and hitting .346 as a DH. He wants to pitch and hit more as he did in Japan • Read More »

Opening Day 2018: Casey at the Bat

March 29, 2018 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: baseball.

Then from five thousand throats and more there rose a lusty yell;/ .
It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell;/ .
It pounded on the mountain and recoiled upon the flat,/
For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat.

World Series begins tonight

October 22, 2008 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: baseball, journalism.

The World Series begins tonight. Let’s hope for the best. The World Series: two vaunted teams with rich baseball histories, a couple of well-known and wiley managers, big stars on both sides set to make each inning a drama-filled delight, a bit of controversy or personal animus thrown in just to spice things up. Well, • Read More »

A century too soon for Cubs fans

October 6, 2008 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: baseball.

rating: 4 of 5 stars Now that fans of the Chicago Cubs have been put out of their impending misery (you didn’t really think the Cubs were going to the Series, did you?), they can retire for the winter with this book and wish they had been born about 100 years earlier. When the Cubs • Read More »

Good writing from a baseball insider

April 27, 2008 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: baseball, writing.

• When is the last time you called a major league baseball player a good writer? Lots of talented authors have written superbly about baseball. Among all our national games, baseball is a game that lends itself easily to good wordsmiths. But rare among those smithies is an author who has played the game at • Read More »