28. July, 2003 - baseball and other musings

Dave Winer’s got a review of Moneyball and in Where the Money Is, Cosh talks about Moneyball ISBN:0393057658 and how it relates to some triple-A ballplayers he recently interviewed in Edmonton. Interesting. [colby cosh]
ESPN’sThe List: Baseball’s one-hit wonders. Yep, that’s a pretty good list.
Once a revered ritual, pepper becomes passe as players spend more time in batting cages and groundskeepers need to keep the grass behind home plate looking nicer for TV. [fark!]
Seeking Hussein and His Successor: History in a War Zone—it’s a tricky thing trying to write history as it’s happening, and a few recent documentaries are showing just how tricky it can be.
Can the car the Rick and Bryan built get traction? It’s a battery-powered electic two-seater that does 0-60 in 4 seconds, and has a top-speed of 130mph with a range of 80mph. You can order one for $80,000, or wait for them to find a major manufacturer and hopefully sell ’em for $20,000.
Lloyd Larish has had A Lifetime of Keeping Big Clocks Ticking. He repairs tower clocks, and is one of the few people in the country who knows how to do it.
As Clock Ticks for Hubble, Some Plead for a Reprieve. The Space Telescope was due to be decommissioned in 2010, but as good as Hubble has proven to be, people are now thinking that maybe its life should be extended.