Archive - Weekend Fun Read of JoeBlogs

There’s a funny scene near the beginning of the movie “Notting Hill.” Hugh Grant’s character, who owns a travel book shop in London*, brings Julia…

Jun 25

OK, so the essential Baseball-Reference has yet another incredibly cool new feature called “Spans,” which allows you to take a look at a player or team…

May 20

Every now and again here — and especially now with a lockout going on — we like to reference FanGraphs money. If you go to the bottom of a FanGraphs…

Feb 25

In this edition of Weekend Fun Read, I’m looking at a dozen great pitchers of the last 60 or so years … and the hitters who gave them trouble. This is…

Feb 18

Here’s a piece of trivia you might not know: Tom Brady (yes, THE Tom Brady) was taken in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL draft. Crazy, right? Like, he…

Feb 11

So, we had some fun last week by looking at the leading home run hitter by letter of the alphabet, and the response was so great that I came up with…

Feb 4

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