Matt Monagan

She swims with sharks -- and might be the best softball pitcher on the planet Georgina Corrick is a softball-hurling superstar. She was transcendent at the University of South Florida -- putting up a 113-32 record with a 1.04 ERA in five seasons. She's the school's all-time lea...

Georgina Corrick just won AUSL's Pitcher of the Year award, she's maybe the current best softball pitcher on Earth, she'll be leading the Talons this weekend in the championship.

But where she might feel most at home is under the sea.
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500-foot HRs? How about Atlanta’s famous 500-mile HR? Sluggers will be teeing off in the 40th annual Home Run Derby at Truist Park in Atlanta on Monday night. Big James Wood will be bringing his colossal power to the contest. The Big Dumper, Cal Raleigh,...

8 sluggers will be hammering dingers as far as they can tonight in Atlanta. But 70 years ago, Bob Montag hit the farthest homer in Georgia (and maybe all of pro baseball) history.

518 miles.
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500-foot HRs? How about Atlanta’s famous 500-mile HR? Sluggers will be teeing off in the 40th annual Home Run Derby at Truist Park in Atlanta on Monday night. Big James Wood will be bringing his colossal power to the contest. The Big Dumper, Cal Raleigh,...

8 sluggers will be crushing baseballs in the Home Run Derby in two days in Atlanta. But none of them will eclipse Atlanta’s longest home run, and maybe the longest home run ever: Bob Montag’s 518-mile dinger in 1954.
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What does the 'real' Jack Bauer think about Draft prospect Jack Bauer? The MLB Draft will be happening during next week's All-Star break from Sunday to Monday. If you're very much into baseball and know what pick your favorite team has, you'll know there are top potentia...

There's a 103 mph-throwing @MLB Draft prospect named Jack Bauer, after Kiefer Sutherland's "24" character.

I contacted Sutherland's reps, not expecting him to get back to me, but he did.

"I'm not the most avid fan, but now I've got something to root for"
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One of the coolest things from our conversation ... how giant an Expos fan his dad Donald Sutherland was:

What does the 'real' Jack Bauer think about Draft prospect Jack Bauer? The MLB Draft will be happening during next week's All-Star break from Sunday to Monday. If you're very much into baseball and know what pick your favorite team has, you'll know there are top potentia...

There's a 103 mph-throwing @MLB Draft prospect named Jack Bauer, after Kiefer Sutherland's "24" character.

I contacted Sutherland's reps, not expecting him to get back to me, but he did.

"I'm not the most avid fan, but now I've got something to root for"
www.mlb.com/news/mlb-dra...

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Her grandma was a Rockford Peach, now she's a star in the AUSL Aubrey Leach is one of the best softball players in the world. She played at the University of Tennessee from 2016-2019 -- finishing on Top 10 lists for career batting average, steals, on-base percent...

70 years ago, Wilma Ann Williams-Leach broke ground playing for the Rockford Peaches. Today, her granddaughter Aubrey Leach is breaking ground starring for the Blaze in the AUSL: www.mlb.com/news/aubrey-...

Her grandma was a Rockford Peach, now she's a star in the AUSL Aubrey Leach is one of the best softball players in the world. She played at the University of Tennessee from 2016-2019 -- finishing on Top 10 lists for career batting average, steals, on-base percent...

70 years ago, Wilma Ann Williams-Leach broke ground playing for the Rockford Peaches. Today, her granddaughter Aubrey Leach is breaking ground starring for the Blaze in the AUSL: www.mlb.com/news/aubrey-...

Why one of MLB's most jacked players watches Tom and Jerry cartoons Yandy Díaz is, in a word, strong. His workout routines have been featured in muscle magazines, he crushes broken-bat home runs and when you sit in front of him and, very carefully, ask him questions a...

Yandy Díaz -- MLB's most jacked player -- lifts hundreds of pounds and eats everything in sight. But there's one unexpected key to his routine

"When I’m working out, I always try to watch Tom and Jerry for like an hour. It clears my mind, it relaxes me."

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Why one of MLB's most jacked players watches Tom and Jerry cartoons Yandy Díaz is, in a word, strong. His workout routines have been featured in muscle magazines, he crushes broken-bat home runs and when you sit in front of him and, very carefully, ask him questions a...

Yandy Díaz -- MLB's most jacked player -- lifts hundreds of pounds and eats everything in sight. But there's one unexpected key to his routine

"When I’m working out, I always try to watch Tom and Jerry for like an hour. It clears my mind, it relaxes me."

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The tiny six-field, island paradise that boasts one pro ballplayer When you think of Bermuda -- a lush British Caribbean island off in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean -- you're likely not also thinking about baseball. Maybe your mind goes to its pink sand beaches, i...

Via @mattmonagan.bsky.social, profile of Adam Hall (2025 with Nashville Sounds, now Biloxi Shuckers) and his Bermudian upbringing #Brewers www.mlb.com/brewers/news...

There's 'over the top' -- and then there's this pitcher's delivery As a hitter, you try to get a good look at a new pitcher once they enter the game. You might stand just outside your dugout, pick up a bat and stare out toward the mound. Maybe you time his fastball. ...

"Everybody just sort of looks at each other in the other team's dugout and says, 'What ... what is that?'"

.@waynestbaseball's Ethan Getting just might have the wildest, sky-scraping delivery in the game.

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Pretty great to grow up in Waterbury CT and then one day have your name on the marquee of the legendary Palace Theater ("Sold Out," too!). It all ties into my harrowing, hopeful "illness memoir" on stem-cell replacement. You can see the first chapter at charlesmonagan.com. Publishers take note!

Great story. I must confess that I preferred MVP 2004 because of the superior experience in Home Run Derby mode, which was my favorite thing to play.

(Go ahead and yell at me.)

How MVP 2005 revolutionized baseball video games There are lots of things you could've been doing during the summer of 2005. Maybe you were lazing the days away at the beach. Maybe you were blasting the Black Eyed Peas' "Don't Phunk with My Heart" a...

"We wanted to make the best sports game at EA. It wasn't even the best baseball game, it was the best sports game."

20 years later, I talked to producers, gamers, the Dropkick Murphys about maybe the greatest sports video game ever. MVP Baseball 2005.
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We're hiring! If you're bilingual in English and Japanese and are excited by this job listing, please apply!

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The wild hobby of collecting Negro League cards A version of this story originally ran in Feb. 2022 There are a handful of extremely rare baseball cards, some that have gone down so far in pop-culture lore that even the most casual of baseball fans...

Y'all, I always thought there were no negro-league baseball cards except reprints produced later. But thanks to @mattmonagan.bsky.social, TIL there WERE contemporaneous cards in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, and now my mind is blown. www.mlb.com/news/the-lar...

The great @mattmonagan.bsky.social is talking a little WBC Qualifiers on the MORNING LINEUP PODCAST this morning. Get it here: open.spotify.com/episode/5nyB...

And below are the game times in EST for the tourney which starts tomorrow night in the US:

Negro Leagues royalty and a barnstorming star in Japan: The overlooked Rap Dixon How do most kids start playing baseball? Maybe their dad played? Maybe they saw a game and wanted to hit long home runs like their big, giant heroes out on the field? Maybe they just had nothing bette...

The first Black player to homer at Yankee Stadium. A streak of 14 consecutive hits. A .410 average against White MLB/MiLBers in 83 ABs.

A star on the '27 Japan barnstorming tour that helped usher in pro baseball in the country.

The legend of Rap Dixon.
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Oh to be young and at a Doors concert in a high school auditorium in 1967.
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Way back in 1993, a 20-year-old Ichiro was sent to play in the now defunct Hawaiian Winter League to change his swing -- which he developed using a coal shovel. Good thing he never did change it up. mlb.com/news/hawaiia...

The legend of Harry Doyle: 'Major League' director talks Uecker's classic character "In a way, there is no 'Major League' without Bob Uecker," Director David S. Ward told me in a phone call. The world became a sadder and much less funny place on Thursday when it was announced that Bo...

“In a way, there’s no ‘Major League’ without Bob Uecker.”

“Major League” director David S Ward talked about the joy, humor and improvisation Ueck brought to his iconic character Harry Doyle

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The legend of Harry Doyle: 'Major League' director talks Uecker's classic character "In a way, there is no 'Major League' without Bob Uecker," Director David S. Ward told me in a phone call. The world became a sadder and much less funny place on Thursday when it was announced that Bo...

“In a way, there’s no ‘Major League’ without Bob Uecker.”

“Major League” director David S Ward talked about the joy, humor and improvisation Ueck brought to his iconic character Harry Doyle

www.mlb.com/news/bob-uec...

That time San Diego nearly had a floating ballpark Famous Irish designer and architect Eileen Gray probably said it best way back in the early 20th century. "To create, one must first question everything." It's hard to know if the city council…

"The most daring concept in stadium building since Houston discovered the dome."

Back in the 1960s, San Diego nearly built a floating ballpark. I looked into the awesomeness and feasibility of the concept with the help of legendary stadium architect Janet Marie Smith.

That time San Diego nearly had a floating ballpark Famous Irish designer and architect Eileen Gray probably said it best way back in the early 20th century. "To create, one must first question everything." It's hard to know if the city council members...

I love weird baseball history, and so I really liked this from @mattmonagan.bsky.social about the wild premise San Diego had in the 1960s to build a ballpark in the middle of Mission Bay:

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From @hcrichardson.bsky.social Letters from an American, 1-5-25

The manager who got ejected ... then returned as the team mascot Managers being ejected? That's nothing new. Mascots being ejected? That's also, somehow, nothing new. But what about a manager being ejected and then returning as the mascot? And not just returning, b...

“I was out of my mind and I go let me have your suit.”

I talked to former Spokane Indians manager Tim Flannery about the wild time he was ejected, came back as the team mascot and inspired his team to a big win.

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Rickey Henderson, Baseball’s Flamboyant ‘Man of Steal,’ Dies at 65 (Gift Article) Widely regarded as the greatest leadoff hitter in baseball history, he was not just one of the game’s most exciting players but also one of its most eccentric.

Gift link to the typically excellent NYT obit. Many of the greatest athletes are lunatics, and Rickey Henderson was no different. It’s great. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/s...