In the old days, radio broadcasters didn’t travel to away game and instead re-created a game broadcast in the studio. Tonight is the annual ode to that baseball tradition, as Jesse Goldberg-Strassler presents his game re-creation as part of the Lansing Lugnuts (High-A; Midwest League) broadcast. (more…)
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While supplies last: Signed copies of The Baseball Thesaurus and The Football Thesaurus
By Ballpark Digest Editors on June 8, 2022 in Major-League Baseball, Minor-League Baseball, The Front Office
Perfect for your sport-loving dad: signed copies of The Baseball Thesaurus, The Football Thesaurus and The Ultimate Sports Lingo Library! We have a limited number of signed copies of both editions, and once they’re gone we don’t expect more signed copies until the fall. (more…)
Tales from The Baseball Thesaurus: Muffins
By Ballpark Digest Editors on May 10, 2021 in At the Ballpark, Major-League Baseball, Minor-League Baseball
There are plenty of great names for baseball superstars—meal tickets or cash cows—but the more interesting names are for the worst players, the muffins, as Jesse Goldberg-Strassler explains in this week’s Tales from The Baseball Thesaurus. (more…)
Ballpark Digest Broadcaster Chat for March 10, 2021
By Ballpark Digest Editors on March 10, 2021 in Major-League Baseball, Minor-League Baseball, Podcasts
Jesse Goldberg-Strassler, Mick Gillispie and Kevin Reichard discuss what fans can expect when they return to ballparks in 2021—the good, the bad, the ugly—in this week’s Ballpark Digest Broadcaster Chat. (more…)