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About Shane Tourtellotte

Shane Tourtellotte began his writing career in science fiction, breaking into the pro magazine market in 1997. He has had over thirty stories published (with translations into French, Russian, and Japanese), and received a Hugo Award nomination in 2002. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina, and still tries to keep one foot in both worlds.


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THT Live: 18 again!

June 14, 2013

Helping their own cause

June 12, 2013
Tracking how much pitcher batting shows up in the won-lost records

THT Live: Four teams, 38 innings, one historic day

June 08, 2013

Triage in the Bronx

May 29, 2013
How the Yankees of 1949 mirror the Yankees of today, and how they don't

Running hot and cold

May 15, 2013
Do young players have more ups and downs in performance than veterans?

The Grand Tour, part five

May 03, 2013
Here you are, in the ninth, two men out and three men on ...

The Grand Tour, part four

May 02, 2013
The Phillie Phanatic sets baseball back a million years

The Grand Tour, part three

May 01, 2013
Braves-Pirates on the schedule, plus a live look-in

The Grand Tour, part two

April 30, 2013
Regarding a ballpark, both great and American

The Grand Tour, part one

April 29, 2013
A baseball symphony in five movements, starting in a minor key

THT Live: Billy and Jackie:  a re-tracer

April 18, 2013

THT Live: Movie Review: “42”

April 13, 2013

Coming home with Jackie

April 10, 2013
A follow-up on Jackie Robinson's value as a base stealer

Exit Sandman

March 27, 2013
Or, 42 facts about Mariano Rivera

Dividing the umpires

March 13, 2013
Who got more umpires in games of the 1900s, and why that might matter today

Five questions: New York Yankees

March 07, 2013
A turning point looms for this storied franchise.

Alternate baseball: chapter four

February 27, 2013
The many ways Fred Merkle could have avoided the "Bonehead" tag

Angling for Trout

February 13, 2013
What can 2012's super-rookie possibly do for an encore?

It’s hard to be humble ...

February 06, 2013
There are limits to everything, even in sabermetrics

Alternate baseball: chapter three

January 30, 2013
A reversal of fortune for "the luckiest man on the face of the earth."

The William Locke centennial

January 15, 2013
A baseball owner you've never heard of. But maybe you should have.

Alternate baseball: chapter two

January 02, 2013
In which George Steinbrenner achieves his true destiny

Alternate baseball: chapter one

December 19, 2012
Changing baseball history, one obscure turning point at a time

An incomplete history of the double-header

December 05, 2012
A closer look at twin-bills, for sabermetrics and for fun

The double-header hangover effect

November 21, 2012
Do two games on one day deplete a team for the long haul?

Playing at the extremes

November 07, 2012
When two great teams, or two terrible teams, meet, does the game look different?

THT Live: WPS recap post-mortem:  two plays in Game Two

October 31, 2012

THT Live: WPS Recap: World Series, Game 4

October 29, 2012

THT Live: WPS Recap: World Series, Game 3

October 28, 2012

THT Live: WPS Recap: World Series, Game 2

October 26, 2012

THT Live: WPS Recap: World Series, Game 1

October 24, 2012

WPS and the postseason, part three

October 24, 2012
Seeking out the World Series at its most exciting

THT Live: WPS Recap for Oct. 22

October 23, 2012

THT Live: WPS Recap for Oct. 21

October 22, 2012

THT Live: WPS Recap for Oct. 19

October 20, 2012

THT Live: WPS Recap for Oct. 18

October 19, 2012

THT Live: WPS Recap for Oct. 17

October 18, 2012

THT Live: WPS Recap for Oct. 16

October 17, 2012

THT Live: WPS Recap for Oct. 15

October 16, 2012

THT Live: WPS Recap for Oct. 14

October 15, 2012

THT Live: WPS Recap for Oct. 13

October 14, 2012

THT Live: WPS Recap for Oct. 12

October 13, 2012

THT Live: WPS Recap for Oct. 11

October 12, 2012

THT Live: WPS Recap for Oct. 10

October 11, 2012

WPS and the postseason, part two

October 10, 2012
The most exciting LCS games and series, from a certain point of view

THT Live: WPS Recap for Oct. 9

October 10, 2012

THT Live: WPS Recap for Oct. 8

October 09, 2012

THT Live: WPS Recap for Oct. 7

October 08, 2012

THT Live: WPS Recap for Oct. 6

October 07, 2012

THT Live: WPS recap for Oct. 5

October 06, 2012

WPS and the postseason, part one

October 03, 2012
Looking back at the most exciting LDS games and series

The hangover effect

September 26, 2012
Do marathon games leave both teams losers?

THT Live: Ichiro and the road ahead

September 21, 2012

Taking the long road

September 12, 2012
Will extra games and shorter rest wreck the prospects of the Wild Card game winners?

‘Football scores’ in baseball

August 29, 2012
The bored sportscaster's crutch of a line gets a more serious look than it deserves

THT Live: Lucky number 19?

August 20, 2012

The WPS Index (part two)

August 16, 2012
The most famous games of our time have their excitement measured

The WPS Index (part one)

August 15, 2012
A fresh attempt to measure the excitement of baseball games

Touching on “Touching Second”

August 01, 2012
It's a classic of early baseball writing, but is it reliable?

THT Live: The shoe that hasn’t dropped

July 27, 2012

The pine tar games

July 18, 2012
Billy Martin's and George Brett's day of infamy had its beginnings eight years earlier

THT Live: Justin Verlander’s no-good, very bad All-Star Game

July 11, 2012

The peak of perfection

July 05, 2012
The odds of a perfect game, and why you really can't calculate them

THT Live: Two thoughts on Doby + 65

July 03, 2012

The Roy Hobbs All-Star team

June 20, 2012
Players who made the most of their only season

THT Live: Gratuitous (and amazing) R. A. Dickey stats

June 19, 2012

THT Live: Gehrig in shadow, again

June 13, 2012

Why Pete Rose is better than Hamlet

June 07, 2012
On the intersection of competition, obsession, and tragedy

THT Live: 8,020*

June 02, 2012

Don Drysdale’s two-for-one special

May 24, 2012
Cole Hamels may have learned the wrong lesson from history.

Day for night

May 09, 2012
Trends and milestones in the transition to night baseball

THT Live: Holland and an imperfect game

April 29, 2012

Lightning in the nine-hole

April 25, 2012
Which pitching staffs did the most good with their bats?

THT Live: Holland and Granderson

April 20, 2012

You’re missin’ a great game

March 30, 2012
The most memorable games played before the emptiest stands.

And that ain’t all, he stole home!

March 02, 2012
An analytic look at Jackie Robinson's signature play

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