When I visited Tokyo in December, I obviously had to stop by the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Here's what I saw and what you can expect if you're planning a visit. www.thefanfiles.com/articles/japanese-baseball-hall-of-fame-and-museum-visit-tokyo-ticket-price-review

Did you know that #anthonyrendon was a #switchhitter? #mlb #baseballfunfacts

Anthony Rendon is gone from baseball. Here's an ode to his greatest moment with the Angels. www.thefanfiles.com/articles/anthony-rendon-lefty-homer-underdog-angels

Candlestick Park was a famously awful place to catch a baseball game. Maybe that's why I feel so nostalgic about it. Here are my thoughts on the cave of the winds: www.thefanfiles.com/articles/candlestick-park-giants-san-francisco-cold

Last month, I spent a week in Tokyo. Here's all of the Shohei Ohtani ads I saw during my time there. www.thefanfiles.com/articles/shohei-ohtani-ad-ads-advertising-billboards-tokyo-sponsorships

A little more than a week ago, @rjwhite.bsky.social found a mysterious home burned DVD at the thrift store. Here's how he stumbled across a piece of Phillies fan history. www.thefanfiles.com/articles/phillies-fan-jerry-horgan-philadelphia-baseball

Happy New Year! It's only 39 days until pitchers and catchers report! ⚾🧢

"That was really what it was. What if some schmuck like me who loves sports, who loves comics, who loves pop culture got hit in the head and ended up back in 6th-century England, how would I survive?" Fun chat with me + @alexcormack.bsky.social about MEDIEVAL, comics, art + baseball!

It's the end of the year, and this is the year I started a baseball site! ⚾✏️ Here are my favorite pieces I wrote for @thefanfiles.bsky.social this year:

A little more than a week ago, @rjwhite.bsky.social found a mysterious home burned DVD at the thrift store. Here's how he stumbled across a piece of Phillies fan history. www.thefanfiles.com/articles/phillies-fan-jerry-horgan-philadelphia-baseball

Liz Thompson has loved baseball her entire life. Now, she has her own business designing and selling scorebooks based on vintage designs. Read this week's Fan Files interview with @lizzierie.bsky.social www.thefanfiles.com/articles/vintage-scorecards-history-scorecard

Why Take Me Out to the Ballgame is baseball’s best tradition! Not only is it charming, it's also part of gender history! www.thefanfiles.com/articles/take-me-out-to-the-ballgame-tradition-origin-beginning

Got to chat with @neilkleid.bsky.social and @alexcormack.bsky.social about their new baseball/King Arthur comic Medieval. Check out our interview and an excerpt from today's new issue of Medieval below. www.thefanfiles.com/articles/medieval-baseball-comic-interview

Ever wonder what it's like to be an MLB beat writer? Here's a day in the life of Angels beat writer Jeff Fletcher: www.thefanfiles.com/articles/bas...

Chuck Styles is the artist behind the portraits at last year's Rickwood Field Game and the USPS Hank Aaron stamp. Here's how he began his career in the art world and how he fell into baseball. www.thefanfiles.com/articles/baseball-art-chuck-styles-rickwood-field

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This week's The Fan Files piece is about two professors who brought students to Cuba and Puerto Rico to study how baseball is treated as religion in the Caribbean. It's interesting stuff! www.thefanfiles.com/articles/baseball-religion-caribbean-winter-ball-students-class

This past August, an angry Willson Contreras upended a bucket of Hi-Chew onto the field following a strike call. Here's a quick look at the history of Hi-Chew and how this Japanese candy found its way into MLB dugouts. www.thefanfiles.com/articles/hi-chew-mlb-baseball-japan

Ellen Lindner makes comics about the history of non-male figures in baseball. In this interview, we chat baseball fandom, research methods, and how the history of women in baseball spans way beyond A League of Their Own. www.thefanfiles.com/articles/baseball-comics-women-history-ellen-lindner

In the Japanese Ballpark is a perfect intro to Japanese baseball. In this week's interview, author Robert Fitts speaks to how the book came about & how folks who are interested in NPB can get started. www.thefanfiles.com/articles/npb-japanese-baseball-differences-mlb-author-interview-robert-fitts

Last week, Canadian pilot Dimitri Neonakis flew a special flight in the shape of the Blue Jays logo. Here's how he did it, why he loves the Blue Jays, and the most complicated flights he's done so far. www.thefanfiles.com/articles/blue-jays-logo-flight-pilot-dimitri-neonakis

Base on Board is a tabletop game that aims to simulate the strategy and chance that goes into a real baseball game. We chatted with Matt JS Kho about the project, where the idea came from, and what baseball fans might learn from playing. thefanfiles.com/articles/baseball-board-game-base-on-board

Baseball and... poetry? Here's how the National Baseball Poetry Festival came about and how founder Steven Biondolillo sees it growing in future years. www.thefanfiles.com/articles/the-national-baseball-poetry-festival

Dr. Eric White is a top scholar on the Gutenberg Bible, but in his free time, he's been studying one of baseball’s biggest mysteries – Who are the unnamed artists behind the classic Topps baseball cartoons? thefanfiles.com/articles/topps-baseball-cards-cartoons-comics-cartoonists

Working on Basher I hadn’t even considered being interviewed about it. Let alone on an actual baseball specific site. Definitely shows I am far more knowledgeable about baseball films than the actual game. Give it a read and let me know your favorite baseball film.

Fascinating great interview. Love the Baseball Statues Database; curious which players get immortalized and which get left out. Thanks for sharing!

Dr. Chris Stride is a statistician at the University of Sheffield - he’s also behind the Baseball Statues Database. In this interview, we chat trends that popped up over the years, what kinds of players get statues and what kinds don't. thefanfiles.com/articles/baseball-statues-history-database

Director Ben Trandem and screenwriter John Ungaro are making a slasher. The villain? The homicidal mascot of the local baseball team. Read this week's interview with the creators of Basher: thefanfiles.com/articles/basher-baseball-slasher-horror-interview

Jane Leavy has a plan to fix baseball. In this week's interview, we chat with Leavy about what she thinks are the most urgent and underappreciated issues facing baseball today, as well as the hidden work that went into her new book Make Me Commissioner. www.thefanfiles.com/articles/jan...

This is a very well written article (about an awesome subject). You should read it and share it with your friends...

Every day, @polyesterunis.bsky.social shares his love of vintage colorful polyester baseball uniforms with the online public. Here's how he got started, his (current) favorite uniform, and what he's learned along the way. thefanfiles.com/articles/spencer-hodes-vintage-jerseys-and-hats

On a sunny summer's day at the ballpark decades ago, @zackquaintance.bsky.social almost got beaned by a foul ball hit high into the sky by Barry Bonds - here's how he remembers the experience. www.thefanfiles.com/articles/bar...

Making history happen is great, but what about the work it takes to broadcast=? Last week, the Los Angeles Dodgers broadcasting team spoke about the experience of covering Shohei Ohtani's 50-50 day. Here's what they shared. www.thefanfiles.com/shohei-ohtani-50-50-dodgers-broadcast-broadcasting

I wasn’t asked this question but I would’ve said the time Homer saved the day after Daryl Strawberry screwed everything up

Updated the website with categories so you can more easily find the kind of baseball article you'd like to read! Check it out! www.thefanfiles.com

Vladdy! I'd cast him as Black Bolt!

Ichiro, OMAC

Looking forward to reading more from the @thefanfiles.bsky.social!

To celebrate Snoopy's birthday this week, check out our new chat with the Schulz Museum's @benjaminlclark.com about Schulz's love of baseball, Charlie Brown's favorite player, and what Willie Mays has to do with the Peanuts animated films www.thefanfiles.com/articles/cha...

Last week, a horde of Angels fans donned heavenly gear and took over the outfield seats at The Big A. Here's how it all happened and what you can expect next from the Halo Boyz: www.thefanfiles.com/articles/ang...

We asked #SanDiegoComicCon attendees who their favorite baseball players are, and what superhero they should play. Here are their answers. What are yours? #baseballfan #sdcc #sdcc2025 #mlb

Couple of good insights on SABR in this interview @buckweaver.bsky.social

Godzilla is smashing his way through Boston (and very possibly Fenway Park too) in Godzilla vs. America: Boston out from IDW tomorrow. @idwpublishing.com @cleanlined.bsky.social @jesselonergan.bsky.social @hannayoonicha.bsky.social www.thefanfiles.com/articles/god...

Wilfred Santiago’s 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente is not focused in capturing the baseball hero's on-field achievements, but instead tries to capture the essence of his time on earth, sketching out the moments that shaped Clemente's approach to life. www.thefanfiles.com/articles/rob...

The Fan Files has its first guest piece, from the wonderful Haley Sawyer. Check out her interview with Christian rapper Lacrae about what it's like to have MLB stars choose your music for their walk-up songs. www.thefanfiles/com/articles...

Jake Berman created a diagram that tracks every MLB team relocation, but his interest in maps stretches back to a blind date. Here's ‪@lostsubways.com‬'s history with maps and the challenges and joys of creating a representation of relocation. www.thefanfiles.com/articles/mlb-team-relocation-design

Have you ever wondered if anyone has ever run a half marathon on a concourse of a ballpark? Well, Guy Monohan has. Here's his experience of running on the Citi Field concourse during a Mets/Pirates game earlier this year: www.thefanfiles.com/articles/mets-citi-field-half-marathon

Mike Armstrong once made nerdy dreams come true as part of the team behind #NYCC Now he's doing the same for a different demographic at #FanaticsFest. Here's a convo with my old colleague re: Fanatics Fest, SABR research and more www.thefanfiles.com/articles/fanatics-fest-mike-armstrong-interview

Comics and baseball collide! This week at The Fan Files, I chat with the great Mark Chiarello about his baseball projects, Superman, and how nostalgia plays into his love of both. thefanfiles.com/articles/mark-chiarello-interview-superman-dc-comics

This week, the Seattle Mariners released a video for Pride. I was expecting cheesy corporate blandness. Instead, the video was thoughtful and well considered. Here's what the ‪@mariners.com‬ got right with their celebration of Pride. thefanfiles.com/articles/mariners-pride-video-2025