NotGraphs Baseball » Patrick Dubuque

Cistulli had never been more lucid in any act of his life as when he forgot about his writing and the pain of his writing and copied the articles off the server, ripped the images, locked and bar...

https://not.fangraphs.com/one-hundred-pageviews-of-solitude/

(Author’s note: This article was originally published on my personal (and now-defunct) website on May 26, 2011, which astute readers will fail to recognize as four days before my inaugural post...

https://not.fangraphs.com/the-box-score-of-a-wiffleball-game-played-by-the-children-at-my-elementary-school-in-the-minds-of-said-children/

I keep score at baseball games. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I desperately need some concrete evidence of my own existence, some flimsy bond of participation between myself as unneces...

https://not.fangraphs.com/semi-dangerous-idea-interpretive-scorekeeping/

The hour is late. The party is winding down: the lutist is tired, the half-empty champagne glasses that litter the end tables are flat. In some distant water closet, a man is weakly vomiting. The...

https://not.fangraphs.com/the-feast-of-jeff-the-fiery/

The Ironic Jersey Omnibus, facing impossible odds, continues its trek through the heartland of America, reaching the city of St. Louis. There it encounters a problem: the Cardinals. Being an Amer...

https://not.fangraphs.com/ironic-jersey-omnibus-st-louis-cardinals/

The other evening, I stood under the eaves of my house in the rain, holding a plastic spatula in one hand and my phone in the other, watching the water pool on my deck. The Mariners were losing t...

https://not.fangraphs.com/the-day-after/

Despite spending the entire 1976 season in the minors, a 39 year-old Diego Segui received a 1977 Topps card wearing a gigantic fake batting helmet. That helmet, and Diego Segui, are not the subje...

https://not.fangraphs.com/john-hatfield-threw-a-ball/

We all have our reasons for mourning the inevitable heat death of NotGraphs. Not the least of these (for the present author) is the opportunity it affords to buy random bags of baseball cards in ...

https://not.fangraphs.com/lets-open-a-bag-of-baseball-cards-amid-our-tears/

One of the problems with life in modern America is how difficult it is to know that you’re winning at it. In simpler times, it was enough to out-earn and out-consume our neighbors; now, most of...

https://not.fangraphs.com/eating-the-mariners-famous-mariner-dog/

I think it’s wonderful that the San Francisco Giants have made the first successful protest in the past 28 years of baseball. Too long have we been chained to the pedantic, tiresome facts that ...

https://not.fangraphs.com/games-i-wish-to-protest/