Migrating over to Bluesky at @whyilikebaseball.bsky.social ! Publications director SABR since 2011. Typical polymath baseball nerd/comma jockey.
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Cecilia M. Tan WILBB retweeted
An Angels employee emailed me in ‘26, offering ticket packages b/c I previously bought tickets for LAD@LAA in ‘25.
I replied, refusing to buy any more LAA tickets as long as Moreno was owner.
Today, I received this follow-up email.
It’s as if they were liberated from a dictator.
Cecilia M. Tan WILBB retweeted
The @Yankees 2027 Associate for Baseball Operations is now accepting applications 👇🏼
teamworkonline.com/baseball-…
Cecilia M. Tan WILBB retweeted
If you can get to Billings, MT tonight, you could bear witness to baseball history. The Red Pocket Mobiles have lost 38 consecutive games and would set a new record for the longest losing streak in professional baseball history if they fall to the Billings Mustangs.
Cecilia M. Tan WILBB retweeted
After Chris wrote this, I shared a story:
In 2018 I was an inexperienced reporter--the only woman--covering Dbacks spring training. In the clubhouse Jazz saw I felt out of place & made a point to approach me to ask about my article & chat.
His bad rap in MIA was puzzling to me
If you want to know more about Jazz Chisholm Jr. and some of the comments he's dealt with in the baseball world, I wrote a profile on him last year.
It gets into race, being personable in a sport that largely doesn't celebrate that and more.
Free ⬇️
nytimes.com/athletic/6230899…
Cecilia M. Tan WILBB retweeted
Thank you Lake County Women's Coalition for recently hosting our own Dr. Cathy Headley, presenting "Tales From The Peach Orchard: Where Women's Baseball History Was Made." #BeyerStadium #CradleofBaseball #APlaceofTheirOwn
Cecilia M. Tan WILBB retweeted
Yes.
DYK: There were minor leagues prior to the creation of the farm system? And independent teams competing against affiliated teams into the '90s?
If you can coach it doesn't matter whether you got paid by the Lincoln Saltdogs or the Los Angeles Dodgers when you played.
Cecilia M. Tan WILBB retweeted
the #WPBL has offered so many women the opportunity to play pro — but alongside that is a lot that has yet to be remedied. my latest for Defector defector.com/the-new-womens-…
Cecilia M. Tan WILBB retweeted
“Anything you can do, I can do BETTER”- @KelsieWhitmore (probably) #WPBL
Cecilia M. Tan WILBB retweeted
“It sounds like a room deodorizer!”
The man who wrote & directed “Field of Dreams” HATED the title and was desperate to change it.
Good thing for us, he lost the fight.
A big part of why the movie endures is the title.
Here’s how it came to be.
mlb.com/news/how-field-of-dr…
Cecilia M. Tan WILBB retweeted
so when I interviewed Kevin Smith about MALLRATS this topic kinda came up but then it went in a direction I did NOT expect—
Cecilia M. Tan WILBB retweeted
theoretically, eye black is a utility product; realistically, it's an almost primitive battle cry from pro sports down to youth leagues. i wrote about the superstition, ritual, and big business of eye black at @FOS: frontofficesports.com/how-ey…
Cecilia M. Tan WILBB retweeted
Fun! Because let's consider the opposite side of the coin here...
The Red Sox have won nine straight series for the first time for the first time in 114 years, per Elias/Nightengale.
Naturally, these two teams will play each other this weekend, at Fenway. Absolutely incredible.
Cecilia M. Tan WILBB retweeted
Tonight, we held a celebration of New York’s legacy of pride & the 57th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn Uprising 🏳️🌈
The Yankees were thrilled to honor and welcome the recipients of the 8th annual Yankees-Stonewall Scholarship Initiative, which awards five $10,000 college scholarships to a graduating high school senior from each of the five boroughs of NYC! 👏
ALT The 2026 recipients of the Yankees-Stonewall Scholarship at Yankee Stadium tour Monument Park and visit the Stonewall Inn plaque.
ALT The 2026 recipients of the Yankees-Stonewall Scholarship, along with members of the NYC DOE, Stonewall Inn, and Yankees Senior Executives.
ALT The 2026 recipients of the Yankees-Stonewall Scholarship at Yankee Stadium.
ALT The 2026 recipients of the Yankees-Stonewall Scholarship at Yankee Stadium tour Monument Park.
Cecilia M. Tan WILBB retweeted
It's been three years since this happened. Urshela remains the only professional athlete I've personally encountered in 20+ years to do this. Happy retirement to a real one. thebiglead.com/former-yankee…
Cecilia M. Tan WILBB retweeted
For every girl who's ever dreamed of being a pro baseball player. 🫶
Join the First Pitch Club to be the first to know when tickets go on sale for the inaugural season of the Women's Pro Baseball League.
womensprobaseballleague.com/…
Cecilia M. Tan WILBB retweeted
The Hall of Fame remembers René Cárdenas, who passed away Sunday at the age of 96.
Beginning in 1958 when the Dodgers arrived on the West Coast, Cárdenas pioneered Spanish language baseball as a broadcast director and announcer for Los Angeles, Houston and Texas.
ALT Head and shoulders portrait of René Cárdenas wearing a suit and tie. (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum)