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Links related to baseball in somewhat random order:

Headlines
Catcher Is Baseball’s Most Endangered Position – 538
Don’t Make Me Root For These Creatures To Be Happy
https://deadspin.com/whats-the-matter-with-baseball-1837585854
Why No One Watches Baseball Anymore – The Nation – @EdgeofSports
Are there only 18 minutes of action in a baseball game?
Uni Watch’s Friday Flashback: A fully vested situation
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/take-this-cheat-sheet-to-the-ballpark-to-decide-when-to-leave
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/24049347/mlb-hitters-explain-why-just-beat-shift
yankees-are-the-worst
https://www.thenation.com/article/viva-baseball-the-latino-pageantry-of-the-mlbs-2017-all-star-game
Here’s what’s behind each PCL team nickname
https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/mexican-baseball-is-finally-eliminating-one-of-the-worst-unwritten-rules-in-sports
https://sports.vice.com/en_us/highlight/the-associated-press-originally-reported-that-yogi-bear-died-at-age-90
http://www.mensjournal.com/style/collection/meet-the-tailor-who-sizes-up-every-player-in-baseball-20150714
minorleague_lawsuit_claims_mlb_fails_to_pay_minimum_wage
offense-learn-sabermetrics
baseball-explained-by-an-aussie-who-has-never-seen-baseball
australian-baseball-a-brief-history
This college baseball team is the best at post-game interviews
Yerrrr Out-Out-Out-Out!: An Animated Gallery Of Every MLB Umpire’s Strike-Three Call
Better Know An Umpire
What Baseball Does to the Soul – NYT
Made in Costa Rica: U.S. Major League baseballs

Recommended Listening
Infinite Inning

Strike Zone Australia with Chris Coleman
– @CJCau @StrikeZoneAU @ABL @audioBoom
Conversations with Warwick Pethybridge are a highlight @itswoztime

Baseball Today –

Twitter
@Desafio_Beisbol
@baseball_ref

NCAA Baseball Tournament / College World Series
http://espn.go.com/ncaa/baseball/cws/scoreboard
https://www.planeta.com/omaha

Big 10 Tournament
http://ww.bigten.org/sports/m-basebl/big10-m-basebl-body.html

College_baseball

Burning Questions
Why do pitchers throw overhand in baseball but underhand in softball?

Buzzword Bingo
ACLS – Around the Horn – Ball – Bag – Ball – Ball Game – Ballpark – Baseball – Base Hit – Bat – Batting Cage – Batting Practice – Bottom – Breaking Ball – Bullpen – Bunt – Catcher – Centerfield – Changeup – Clean Up Hitter – Closer – Curve Ball – Diamond – Double Play – ERA – Error – Everyday Player – Extra Innings – Fast Ball – Field – First Pitch – Full Count – Glove – Grand Slam – Ground Ball – Hit – Home Plate – Home Run – Infield / Outfield – Inning – Inside Baseball – Inside Corner – Intentional Walk – Leadoff Hitter – Left Field – Must Win Game – MVP (Most Valuable Player) – National Pastime – NLCS – Obstruction – On Deck – Opening Day – Pinch Hitter – Pitch – Pitcher – Pitchers’ Duel – Plate Appearance – Play – Playoffs – Right Field – Roster – Run – Runner – Sacrifice Bunt – Scoreboard – Series – Shortstop – Stance – Starting Lineup – Starting Pitcher – Statistics – Stealing Base- Stranded – Strike – Strike Out – Strike Zone – Swing and a Miss – Switch Hitter – Team – Top – Top of the Inning – Triple Play – Umpire – Walk – Walk Off – Walk Off Home Run – Walk Up Song – World Series

Scorebs
Yahoo scoreboard
mlb.com

YouTube
Baseball Playlists
Major League Baseball
ProSwingNY
ABL.tv –
@ABLeague
BaseballHitting101 – @DeadRedHitting
Tips béisbol en casa – @PROBEISMX

Blogs
http://joeposnanski.com
https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/
http://www.foxsports.com/tag/ken-rosenthal
http://keitholbermann.mlblogs.com

Lingo
Glossary_of_baseball

Hall of Fame
https://deadspin.com/what-story-does-the-baseball-hall-of-fame-want-to-tell-1831940137

Inside Baseball
http://archive.pressthink.org/2004/01/03/inside_baseball.html

Jackie Robinson
http://video.vegaspbs.org/show/jackie-robinson
http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/jackie-robinson/videos
http://www.jackierobinson.org
Jackie_Robinson

MLB also adopted a new annual tradition, “Jackie Robinson Day“, for the first time on April 15, 2004, on which every player on every team wears No. 42.

Ted Williams
pbs.org
Ted_Williams

Games
http://www.miniclip.com/games/baseball/en
http://www.gamerisms.com/play-baseball-quiz.html
http://www.gamerisms.com/baseball-game-terms.html

Shopping
baseballsavings.com
hitadouble.com
easton.com
rawlings.com
epicsports.com

NCAA College
June
http://www.cwsomaha.com
http://www.ncaa.com/scoreboard/baseball/d1
http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/baseball/d1
http://portal.stretchinternet.com/Indiana

Stats
hittrackeronline.com
baseballinfosolutions.com

Forums
forolm.com/foro

Elsewhere on the Web
Shifting power in sports journalism – What happens when a sports league owns a network — and pays the journalists?
Baseball NZ
web.theabl.com.au – @ABLeague
baseballamerica.com – baseballamerica.com/today
drivelinebaseball.com/pitching

Baseball Party
party-ideas-by-a-pro.com/baseball-party-ideas.html

Venezuela
masslive.com

Walk-up Song
a-brief-history-of-the-baseball-walk-up-song

Managers
List_of_Major_League_Baseball_managers