Jul 29th, 2014
A WHOLE NEW BALLGAME Book Blog Tour!
I’m off on a book blog tour to promote A WHOLE NEW BALLGAME. More inside!… [more]
Jul 7th, 2014
The Mets Do Something Right: The 2014 Women’s Baseball Clinic
When other teams are having events with makeovers and vodka or arguing whether female fans are “Gamer Babes” or not, and OPI is pushing their MLB-approved line of colors, the Mets held a Mets Women’s Baseball Clinic Sunday afternoon that completely and totally focused 100% on baseball.… [more]
Mar 30th, 2014
Six years of baseball blogging in one book
I wrote about baseball for six years. SIX YEARS. Yeah, I can’t believe it either. And I remained astonished throughout the entire process of putting this together. I loved every word I wrote and I loved reading back through it all to remember all those years. … [more]
Mar 8th, 2014
Book Launch Event, 3/12 in Brooklyn
Join me at “You Sure Know A Lot About Baseball For A Girl” on March 12. I’ll be celebrating the publication of my second novel, “A Whole New Ballgame” 7pm at WORD in Brooklyn, along with my guests Joan Walsh (Splash Hit, Salon.com), Taryn Cooper (of Gal for All Seasons), and Diane Firstman (Value Over Replacement Grit), with Kimberly Austin of Rock Book Show moderating. Peanuts and Cracker Jack will be served! Facebook RSVP encouraged, but not required. See you there!… [more]
Feb 13th, 2014
Have You Heard, Derek Jeter Is Retiring This Year?
It is okay to not like Derek Jeter.… [more]
Feb 6th, 2014
WOR, Ralph Kiner, Tradition & the Mets
When I read the Daily News article about the Mets’ radio broadcast transition over to WOR, and how Ed Coleman barely made it over and Howie Rose was taken over ‘grudgingly’ and that Josh Lewin wasn’t a sure thing, and how WOR didn’t want continuity, none of it made sense to me. A good baseball broadcast teams are a thing held in reverence. Fans of other teams with inferior broadcasters who play the Mets openly confess to enjoying being able to listen to our TV booth or our radio team. Even fans who hate their team’s broadcasters admit that it would feel odd if they were gone.… [more]
Feb 3rd, 2014
My New Novel: A WHOLE NEW BALLGAME
I’m proud and excited to announce the publication of my second novel, A WHOLE NEW BALLGAME. As you might have guessed based on the title and the cover, it has a baseball-related theme. A few years ago, an editor who had been following my blog contacted me to suggest that I write some kind of baseball-ish memoir. I wasn’t interested in writing memoir but I was interested in writing about why I loved baseball and how I got drawn into it. I started a short story and 12,000 words later realized that it was clearly headed somewhere else. It’s a story about baseball but it’s also about growing up and driving around and falling in love and taking chances and having your heart broken.… [more]
Sep 29th, 2013
Mike Piazza, New York Catcher
In my usual lament of all the things I missed because I came to baseball so late, the Mike Piazza years are definitely part of that recitation. I was only around for his last year with the team, but by the time the end of the season rolled around, I had figured out enough that I realized I needed to see his last game with the Mets. It was my first “this is an important baseball moment, I need to be there” decision for me, rolling up to the box office solo and picking up a seat in the upper deck.… [more]
Dec 23rd, 2012
Au revoir, R.A. Dickey
I know, I know: a new post on metsgrrl.com. It’s been a year of sadness and despair and disappointment and just plain nothing-ness on the baseball front. I went to Europe, I wrote a book, and did a lot of other things with my money besides spend it on the New York Mets. A terrible baseball ennui took hold of me in 2012 and very few things took me out of it. One of those things was R.A. Dickey. He was a reason I considered spending money on Mets tickets. He was a reason I sat and watched or listen to a game.… [more]
Aug 15th, 2012
Congratulations, Seattle and King Felix!
Karma sometimes pays off; my friends who are Mariners Charter seat holders happened to be at the game today, not wanting to miss a Felix start in the sunshine — with a camera, because he wanted to capture the fist pump. It was a good day to be there. … [more]
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