Today is Thursday and that means it's another round of links from around the general chapter of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance. The Baseball Bloggers Alliance is a network of baseball writers from around the world sharing love for the greatest game on earth. The BBA is formed with multiple chapters. There are fantasy chapters, chapters of writers who follow specific teams, etc. The general chapter writes about the sport in a general, non-team-centric format.
Again this week, your host will split the links into posts about baseball and those posts that vote their official BBA votes for the various BBA awards that will be announced in the next few weeks. Enjoy.
Blaine Blontz over at Call to the Pen reports on Tom Ricketts' interview about the Cubs' future. Great stuff.
Old Time Family Baseball has a new award for the best dressed ball player. And you have a vote. Make your voice heard!
The newest member of our general chapter has the wonderfully quirky blog title of Grubby Glove. There is some terrific writing going on over there too. Check out this example.
Robbie Clark takes us through the hilarious world of failed mascots over at Baseblawg. You've got to see this one.
Over at The Ball Caps Blog, Daniel casts his convincing vote against an MLB salary cap. Gee, another fan who hates the Yankees.
John Sharp takes on Tom Verducci and wins in this writer's humble opinion. John writes John's Big League Baseball Blog.
The Platoon Advantage always has something good to read. This author's favorite this, week was The Common Man's umpire ejection scorecard. Love it. Oh, and yours truly got a old fashioned (but good-natured) scolding over there. There's even a new statistic with your Fan's name on it. Heh.
Hey, you've got to do some self promoting sometimes. In case you missed it, here's a Fan piece over on MLB Dirt.
The Baseball Hall of Shame is a great site and keeps tabs of bad behavior by MLB players. Here's their take down of Jose Reyes.
Theo over at Hot Corner Harbor gives fans whose teams are out of the playoff picture a guide of who to root for. Great stuff. Also worth checking out is their off season regimens.
Diamond Hoggers loved the organist's choice of music last night at Chase Field. Great!
Here is a nugget from the always terrific MLB Reports.
And now for some award links:
For the most hilarious version, you've got to check out Off Base Percentage, this Fan's new must stop. Their managerial picks will keep you in stitches here and here.
John over at John's Big League Baseball Blog gives us his AL managerial picks.
Ken Marcum makes his managerial picks over at The Baseball Hall of Shame.
Hot Corner Harbor's Theo weighs in on a wide swath of our category awards. Well done!
Out in Left Field (love that name), we get votes on three of our awards. Nice!
Kenn Olson gives us his manager and rookie picks in one great post over at Going Yard.
Jonathan over at MLB Dirt gives us our rookie picks in the AL and NL.
Daniel over at The Ball Caps Blog (did the Fan mention he hates the Yankees?) has his rookie picks here.
Robbie Clark gives us her rookie and manager picks from her site, the Baseblawg.
Hans at Dugout 24 has his managerial and rookie picks too. The whole world loves baseball.
The Replacement Level Baseball Blog is comfortably ahead in this award process and this compiler sure does appreciate it.
Hopefully, nobody was forgotten. But with trade shows and late nights watching playoff baseball, this old guy is pretty bleary eyed right about now. Enjoy the links and have a great weekend.
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Thursday, October 06, 2011
Friday, September 24, 2010
Baseball Bloggers Alliance Announces New Award Names
Changes reflect appreciation for history of the game
The Baseball Bloggers Alliance (BBA) recently announced the renaming of their annual postseason awards to comply with the wishes of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA), thereby avoiding confusion between the two organizations. This allowed the BBA an opportunity to recognize some of the legendary greats of the game, naming their highest honors after them.
“Earlier in the year, the BBA reached an agreement with former Yankee reliever Goose Gossage to name our newest award, recognizing the best relief pitcher in each league, after him,” said Daniel Shoptaw, founder and president of the Alliance. “It only seemed fitting, then, that we rename the rest of our awards after other legends of the game.”
The five awards are given to a player in each league: The Connie Mack Award, given to the top manager; the Willie Mays Award, for the top rookie; the Goose Gossage award, mentioned above; the Walter Johnson Award, which would be analogous to the BBWAA’s Cy Young Award; and the Stan Musial Award, awarded to the most valuable player in each league.
According to Shoptaw, “These names are synonymous with quality, achievement, and dedication. These names have not only stood the test of time, but have been strengthened by it.”
The schedule for the announcement of these awards is as follows:
Connie Mack Award: October 14
Willie Mays Award: October 18
Goose Gossage Award: October 21
Walter Johnson Award: October 25
Stan Musial Award: October 28
The Baseball Bloggers Alliance was founded in 2009 and numbers 222 blogs covering all major league teams and various other aspects of baseball, as well as blogs and sites that are affiliated as Friends of the BBA. The official website of the BBA is located at www.baseballbloggersalliance.com. The BBA can be found on Twitter by the handle @baseballblogs and by the hashmark #bbba. Members of the BBA may be heard at Blog Talk Radio every Tuesday night with their call-in show, BBA Baseball Talk, which may also be downloaded as a podcast from iTunes.
The Baseball Bloggers Alliance (BBA) recently announced the renaming of their annual postseason awards to comply with the wishes of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA), thereby avoiding confusion between the two organizations. This allowed the BBA an opportunity to recognize some of the legendary greats of the game, naming their highest honors after them.
“Earlier in the year, the BBA reached an agreement with former Yankee reliever Goose Gossage to name our newest award, recognizing the best relief pitcher in each league, after him,” said Daniel Shoptaw, founder and president of the Alliance. “It only seemed fitting, then, that we rename the rest of our awards after other legends of the game.”
The five awards are given to a player in each league: The Connie Mack Award, given to the top manager; the Willie Mays Award, for the top rookie; the Goose Gossage award, mentioned above; the Walter Johnson Award, which would be analogous to the BBWAA’s Cy Young Award; and the Stan Musial Award, awarded to the most valuable player in each league.
According to Shoptaw, “These names are synonymous with quality, achievement, and dedication. These names have not only stood the test of time, but have been strengthened by it.”
The schedule for the announcement of these awards is as follows:
Connie Mack Award: October 14
Willie Mays Award: October 18
Goose Gossage Award: October 21
Walter Johnson Award: October 25
Stan Musial Award: October 28
The Baseball Bloggers Alliance was founded in 2009 and numbers 222 blogs covering all major league teams and various other aspects of baseball, as well as blogs and sites that are affiliated as Friends of the BBA. The official website of the BBA is located at www.baseballbloggersalliance.com. The BBA can be found on Twitter by the handle @baseballblogs and by the hashmark #bbba. Members of the BBA may be heard at Blog Talk Radio every Tuesday night with their call-in show, BBA Baseball Talk, which may also be downloaded as a podcast from iTunes.
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