All Baseball, All the Time
All Baseball, All the Time
Let’s look at the most interesting news of the day, and preview the four Wild-Card series.
If you’re in the Charlotte area, I’ll be at Park Road Books tonight at 6:30 p.m., talking WHY WE LOVE FOOTBALL—and, I would imagine, a certain Hit King—with bestselling author Gavin Edwards.
OK, here we go, it’s our time of year! Baseball playoffs start today!
We’ll be doing playoff recaps every day, doing some podcasts with our pal
, just generally following the craziness, I’m sure we’ll squeeze in some awards talk, some Hall of Fame talk, some general sports talk, some pop culture talk, some nonsense, this will be your one-stop shopping for everything that is NOT the election.If you’d like to sign up for the month, check it out: I’ve created a special 28.6% off offer for the next few days. Why 28.6% off? Because that means you can get the month of October for $5 instead of its normal $7 price. It took me a long time to work out that math.
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Anyway, let’s do a quick recap of some interesting baseball things, followed by a short playoff preview.
Today’s Hit Kings! I stayed up half the night writing a few words about Pete Rose while the news of his passing was still fresh. There’s too much to say about Pete and, at the same time, it’s all been said, hasn’t it?
Put it this way: Pete Rose, who dominated the baseball landscape in the 1970s and cracked more hits than any player in Major League Baseball history, is not the lead story on MLB.com. What does a player have to do to knock more hits than anybody else in the history of the sport and STILL not have his death be the lead story on baseball’s own website?
Pete did all those things.
But he sure did hit. In his honor this morning, here are the active hit leaders… and how many hits behind Pete Rose they are at the moment: