Just now I learned from Wiki that the original concept for the show was called “The Alley Cats“ and “the three females … would reside in alleys and wear whips and chains.”

*middle-aged white man with headphones, sitting in front of 1960s console with lots of buttons and multiple TV display screens* we’ve lost Duluth

happy fall! some autumnal shizzle from the archives:

They turned down the gambling house It died with an awful sound

Congratulations to SABR member and sports photographer David Malamut on this huge first!

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Will Flemming promised to buy $100 of mandarin oranges if Nathaniel Lowe got an extra-base hit with two out and the bases loaded. Lowe struck out. 🍊 🚫

I think coverage like this was why I wasn't raised as a hockey fan. My dad went to a college with a bit of a hockey culture, and we lived in a hockey town ... but when it came time for them to raise kids, I think my parents viewed hockey as half a notch above roller derby.

Dude gets to New York City and his bitch ass starts taking pictures of clouds like he was Yoko Ono or something.

My boss gave me this, and the scent is called Opening Day, and I have lit it only once (possibly on Opening Day), and now that there’s, like, a week left in the regular season it seems like high time to light it again.

Counting egrets from the train and thinking that would make a fine title for the seventh volume of my memoirs.

it was a New Haven yesterday but it’s an old haven now

we pause briefly in the ancestral homeland, where Hope Street doubtless buzzes with traffic and intrigue as it did in the old days.

The out-of-towner reps his @wfmu.bsky.social t-shirt at Moynihan Train Hall

Also #OTD, in 1952, just 8,882 people take advantage of what turns out to be the last chance to watch a Boston Braves home game. Saul Wisnia for SABR Games:

#OTD in 1986, Earl Weaver draws his 97th and last career ejection in a weird, sloppy game against the Brewers that hinges on (potentially blown) catcher’s interference and leaving-the-basepath calls. From the SABR Games Project:

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ohhhhhhh I have been gluttonous

Looking across the Hudson River at New Jersey and thinking, as any good Joseph Mitchell fan would, “SPRY FOR BAKING SPRY FOR BAKING SPRY FOR BAKING”

Some cops solve crimes the law-and-order way. He solves them the

Some sort of German Day parade going on and somebody just walked past on the sidewalk wearing a pickelhaube. Never seen one of those in the wild.

The perfect piano to use when you’ve turned your music room into a sandbox. (Ackshually, it’s a harpsichord)

More srsly perhaps, the Met has Les Paul‘s last Les Paul, played by him from 1982 until his death. Somehow he tolerated the few, primitive tone-altering options.

@keithpille.bsky.social dude on Craigslist wants $500 for this. A little rough but you could probably put a Bigsby on it

The Frank Lloyd Wright room at the Met, based on a summer retreat overlooking Lake Minnetonka. There’s something cool and mysterious about rooms no one is allowed into.

Of course I saw Pierrot’s Funeral by Matisse and thought “The clown died in Marvin Gardens.” You absolutely cannot take me anywhere.

Walked into a bagel shop in New York just in time for the cook of the Edmund Fitzgerald to tell his fellows he couldn’t feed them. Epic shit

OK, @johnfredland.bsky.social, this path is really starting to beckon me: Dylan apparently met Rod Carew after a Twins game in the summer of ‘78. There must be a record of this.

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@johnfredland.bsky.social I see some Games Project opportunities….

Passed through New Rochelle.

Goddammit, I missed my shot: I coulda spent my 2025 portraying James B. “Rot-Gut” Ferret at Gatsby-themed events on Long Island.

another fave from the SABR Games Project archives: #OTD in 1972, the misbegotten, first-and-only Kodak World Baseball Classic ends with an extra-inning thriller.

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This wonderful, funny piece perfectly captures my complicated feeling about Eno, who has been a big influence on my thinking - an influence which I question more and more as the years go by. A "yes!" & a "hah!" In almost every paragraph. Free read here (the LRB is well worthy of support) :

I don't give a fuck what's in her book. I truly don't.

You don’t fuck with Nicoles ever Nicoles will eat you for breakfast

I don’t see “newspapers” specifically mentioned here, which bums me out; i was writing for the Framingham paper in 2000, and this is/was probably my best shot at having my work in a time capsule.

Last time #RedSox beat #Athletics despite trailing by 2 runs after 8 innings was on August 16, 1999 at Fenway Park. BOS walked off in that one with 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th on a double for Brian Daubach that scored Darren Lewis, Butch Huskey, and José Offerman.

they ain't give us none

flashback to long-gone newsroom days when goofy quotes like "he's got that new pope smell" would be immediately printed out and tacked up in people's cubes or (in college) hot-glued directly to the walls of our decrepit office

imagine for a moment a universe in which Linus drags around a security worm, clutching it to himself as a comfort, wrapping it around himself as a costume for the Christmas pageant 🪱

reading Z. Hollander' '75 NFL guide on @archive.org and enjoying the digs in player bios: -"may have led league in blown plays" -"says 'my size isn't a handicap' but it is" - "he runs [pass patterns] with the deftness of a spastic giraffe" - "lost job at end of season to somebody named Brian Sipe"

in my basement office I have a framed sports page from Carl Yastrzemski's last game. lower on the page is an article about DJ's arrival in Boston, using this exact same headshot

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Fifty years ago this week, a few options for your personal entertainment in Boston, courtesy the Boston Phoenix alternative newspaper.

any other baseball card collectors Of A Certain Age feel like this social media graphic should just be an assemblage of disembodied heads?

House to myself tonight and celebrating with Cornell tofu and rice. ‘tis a gift to be simple, ‘tis a gift to be free. (as the freedom goes, I will have to put more value on the simplicity, I guess.)