I hate the Colts

The Colts left Baltimore at night on March 29, 1984. Here’s the Baltimore Sun front page from the next day.

The Sun Front Page: March 30, 1984: Baltimore Colts are gone https://t.co/2doEjbuwBd pic.twitter.com/cu8OhTqZhh

— Baltimore Sun Arts (@baltsunarts) March 30, 2018

Like many others, I wish they had changed the name of the team and the uniforms and left the Colts legacy here. When the Patriots play the Colts, I call it “Cheaters vs. Deserters”.

I recommend ESPN’s 30 for 30 program on the Baltimore Colts marching band which stayed together after the team left town. Here’s the trailer. The Blu-ray also includes Bob Irsay’s outrageous drunken news conference.

Eagles and Scrabble

Eagles fan @drewtweetsnow fit every key player on Super Bowl team onto a Scrabble board.

He says it took him 3 hours. pic.twitter.com/jHPx9TL1cE

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) March 13, 2018

Entertaining baseball maps

Here's another fun one… Most hit by pitches by birth state pic.twitter.com/5C9sGpYF59

— Daren Willman (@darenw) February 25, 2018

Citizens Bank Park July 14, 2013

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The Phillies play here. It opened in 2004. The box score of the game.

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Here are three pennants which state the Orioles won the World Series in 1969, 1971, and 1979. They lost all three series.

The Oracle of Baseball

The Oracle of Baseball enables you to find the link between two players using the “six degrees” concept of who they played with.

Here’s how to connect Babe Ruth to Manny Machado, for example, through five other players.

Retrosheet also has cool baseball information – decades of box scores. Here‘s the box score for the first game I saw in person when the New York Yankees defeated the Kansas City Athletics in 1961. There were only 17,000 people at Yankee Stadium on a Sunday afternoon.