Chris’ takes on the new book ’78: The Boston Red Sox, A Historic Game and a Divided City

A fixing and follow-up to last week’s Dazzy Vance tracer column.

Was the story from Ken Burns’ baseball true? Was Vance impossible to hit on a Monday in Brooklyn?

In an extension of a recent column, Chris notes a slew of occasions when life and baseball had something interesting happen to them in the same day.

Is Bruce Weber’s book on umpires a hit or is it out?

A look at occasions when important real life events and famous baseball moments happened at the same time.

Chris’ take on the highly publicized new book by Tom Verducci and Joe Torre

THT’s look at what the crystal ball holds for the defending AL Central champs.

Based on a database created a few months ago, Chris looks for some context-dependent similarity scores to compare offensive seasons with each other.

A recount of Robert Fitts’ work on the first notable American-born star in Japanese baseball.