tom verducci Stories - Beyond the Box Score
Braves' Heyward Makes Sports Illustrated This Week
Don't panic, it's not the cover, and the associated mythical jinx that goes along with it. Sports Illustrated is not turning new Braves phenom Jason Heyward into its old phenom Jeff Francoeur. While Heyward may be more of a "natural," he did come from somewhere. The article on him in this week's...
Braves Quote For The Day
Sports Illustrated's Tom Verducci lists his top-10 storylines for the 2010 baseball season, and number-1 is Atlanta Braves rookie Jason Heyward: Forget the Fred McGriff comparisons; Heyward is far more athletic. Forget the Willie McCovey comparisons; McCovey was only a .270 career hitter. Forget...
Brian McCann Makes an Appearance on Some Sports Illustrated Covers This Week
Atlanta Braves catcher Brian McCann will appear on some covers in the South East region of the US. Roy Halladay will be the cover player nation-wide, but the "masthead" player will change per region. I was a little concerned yesterday when I thought that McCann could get the SI cover jinx, but I...
Thoughts at Midseason from Verducci and Gammons
Sports Illustrated's Tom Verducci makes for interesting reading in an article today about where baseball stands at its halfway point in the season. This baseball season is best represented by the Cincinnati Reds. Through their first 80 games, the Reds were 40-40 overall, 20-20 at home, 20-20 on...
Book Review: The Yankee Years – Joe Torre and Tom Verducci
Note: From now on whenever I finish a book on baseball, I plan on sharing what I thought of it with all of you. Hope you find them useful in determining you own reading selection. I have always been interested in measuring how managers affect ballgames, so when I saw Joe Torre wrote a book, I...
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