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Announcing a new policy at BPP: Paid guest posts 16 Mar 2013 | 09:19 pm
There’s something I’ve been mulling for some time now that I think needs to be said. I’ll try to keep this brief. I’ve reached the point in my writing career where I only want to do paid work. My ulti...
An open letter to Bill Dwyre 10 Mar 2013 | 07:00 am
Dear Bill Dwyre, My name is Graham Womack. You probably don’t remember me, but I attended a sports journalism workshop you helped put on in 2003 as sports editor of the Los Angeles Times. I was one of...
Book review: Banzai Babe Ruth 18 Feb 2013 | 07:04 pm
Editor’s note: Please welcome Japanese baseball expert Paul Gillespie to the site. Today, Paul reviews the book that recently won the prestigious Seymour Medal from the Society for American Baseball R...
Stan the Man 27 Jan 2013 | 10:52 pm
Stan Musial represented everything that I believed baseball was when I was a kid. He represented everything that is sorely missing from the game today. He played the game and loved the game for the sa...
A season covering the 49ers 24 Jan 2013 | 02:19 am
I’ve been preoccupied the last several months. What was once a near-daily stream of posts here has dwindled to a handful per month. I’m not complaining, at least not today. In July, I got a full-time ...
Bill Deane’s 2013 Hall of Fame election forecast 9 Jan 2013 | 06:24 am
Editor’s note: Please welcome Bill Deane, former senior research associate at the Hall of Fame and a longtime friend of the site. For more than 30 years, Bill has made a science of studying past votin...
The 50 best baseball players not in the Hall of Fame, Version 3.0 3 Jan 2013 | 12:38 am
Recently on Twitter, someone asked my friend and fellow baseball writer Dan Szymborski how many people he’d enshrine off this year’s Hall of Fame ballot. I had to speak up. “Like 15,” I tweeted. It’s ...
An interview with Sergio Romo 10 Dec 2012 | 06:38 am
As some of you may know, I’ve had the opportunity over the last few months to contribute to 49ers Insider, a digital magazine from the San Francisco Chronicle. Between this gig and my day job, it’s li...
Vote: The 50 best baseball players not in the Hall of Fame, Version 3.0 2 Dec 2012 | 12:55 am
Hello everyone, As some of you may know, I do an annual project having people rank the 50 best baseball players not in the Hall of Fame. It’s that time again. I invite anyone who’s interested to take ...
Locke Field, the Gainesville Owls and the King 28 Nov 2012 | 09:47 pm
Editor’s note: Please welcome Dave England to the site. Dave is a longtime friend of BPP and contributed to my project for a Hall of Fame Inner Circle. To my infant son everything is new: shapes, colo...
