La Vida Baseball, the leading multi-language Latino baseball lifestyle media company, today announced the launch of “The Year of 21,” a multi-platform content initiative created to inform, engage and educate fans worldwide about the life, the impact and the legacy of Roberto Clemente. In collaboration with a range of media ...
Read More »‘Players Week’ on SiriusXM’s MLB Network Radio
This week, February 8-12, will be “Players Week” on the MLB Network Radio channel on SiriusXM. Twenty-one current major league players are scheduled join SiriusXM hosts for special extended guest-hosting segments over the course of the week. MLB Network Radio is available nationwide on SiriusXM radios (channel 89 or 209) and on the ...
Read More »Strat-O-Matic Expands Partnership With Negro League Baseball Museum
As Black History Month begins, Strat-O-Matic (www.strat-o-matic.com), the leader in sports simulation games now celebrating its Diamond Anniversary, is proud to announce the renewal and expansion of its partnership with the Negro League Baseball Museum (NLBM) and President Bob Kendrick. Strat-O-Matic continues to augment its selection of popular Negro League ...
Read More »MLBPAA Teams With Icon Source For Marketing
Chris Ptacek The Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association (MLBPAA) has teamed up with the on-demand athlete marketplace, Icon Source, to give its members another “at bat” for a game that changes the lives of most in their income earning prime. The collaboration brings more than 150 former MLB players to ...
Read More »Diamond Anniversary For Strat-O-Matic As Sports Simulation Leader Celebrates 60th
Now sixty years after Hal Richman launched the first set of Strat-O-Matic (www.strat-o-matic.com) baseball cards, the market leader in sports simulation is set to celebrate its Diamond Anniversary (how appropriate!) with a full lineup of new items, including upgraded seasons, updated popular series including Hall of Fame and Negro League ...
Read More »SiriusXM Presents ‘Virtual’ Baseball Winter Meetings Coverage This Week
Bernard Gagnon The MLB Network Radio channel on SiriusXM will dedicate a week of coverage to baseball’s “Virtual Winter Meetings” happening today through December 18th. Baseball fans can tune in to 15 hours of live programming each weekday, delivering up-to-the-moment news from Major League Baseball’s offseason, interviews with executives and ...
Read More »Hall of Fame Collection Highlights Baseball’s Best, In The Best Light
It’s Hall of Fame debate time, that annual ritual of poring over the current ballot of eligible players and trying to think along with the roughly 400 or so BBWAA members as to who is in and who is out. And regardless of whether it’s from the writers or the ...
Read More »Topps Issues Fine Art Prints From Popular Project 2020 Cards
Now with more than 80% of its 400-card run issued since it began in March, Topps “Project 2020,” the ambitious effort by 20 commissioned popular artists across the world to re-imagine 20 iconic baseball cards from the past 70 years, moves to a new phase with today’s introduction of Fine ...
Read More »‘Stealing First’ A Quick Read Of A Breadth Of Baseball Stories
A big part of baseball fandom for many of its most fervent followers is it nearly endless trove of stories. And while many are known to more casual fans, the chance to dig a little deeper about less heralded players and feats keeps it interesting for those who have heard ...
Read More »Tampa Upends Los Angeles In Six Games In Strat-O-Matic’s 2020 World Series Simulation
Randy Arozarena (.320, 3 HR, 5 RBI), Joey Wendle (.348, 4 runs scored), Brandon Lowe (2 home runs, 5 RBI), and the tandem of Nick Anderson and Diego Castillo (10.1 IP, 0 runs, 15 K) helped Tampa Bay to a win over Los Angeles, four games to two, as Strat-O-Matic ...
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