My Game, My League
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Welcome to anyone that is reading this site for the first time thanks to The APBA Blog‘s gracious words about OneforFive.com. It was a pleasure to do the “Five Questions for…” interview for Tom. I can’t imagine that any of the regular readers here haven’t heard of or read The APBA Blog at some point [...]
Preacher Roe and Uncanny Events
Preacher Roe! just missed hitting a Grand Slam with a split of 1-19 HR 20 fly B (rolled the 20!) in my 1953 Dodgers replay @stratomatic — Paul Dylan (@heyblue) May 28, 2012 Preacher Roe hit his only career home run versus Bob Hall of the Pittsburgh Pirates in July 1953. Johnny Hetki came in [...]
Sponsoring Mario Mendoza on Baseball-Reference.com
In honor of Mr. One-For-Five himself, the man for whom the line was named, Mario Mendoza, this website will be sponsoring the Baseball-Reference.com page of Mario Mendoza for the next year. If I could have just one website for the rest of my life, it would be Baseball-Reference.com. Sponsorships of player pages starts at just [...]
George Brett and Mario Mendoza
I wanted to write a nice long piece on Mario Mendoza, his career, his place in baseball history, with maybe a kind of “where are they now” coda. I thought that with some digging I could find a relate-able “human interest” story. Hopefully an uplifting story of a man overcoming his marginalization in history to [...]
The Blog I Want to Be
Over on the Strat-o-Matic Fan Forum this morning, Terry Bartelme offered up a great question that really got me thinking about the replays I post, the replays I follow, the blogs I read and the blog I write. My number one rule over here at oneforfive.com is to create the kind of website that I [...]