January 2025
This newsletter is a collection of things I have found in the last month that I enjoyed, found interesting, or simply wanted to share.
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Man of Steal
Joe Posnanski’s wonderful obituary, ‘Being Rickey’
My favorite Rickey Henderson story of the many hundreds happened when he came back to Oakland and was looking to assure his new manager, Tony La Russa, that he would be a team player. Up to that point, Rickey ran whenever he wanted to run, he had a perpetual green light, but he asked to be shown the signs and promised to follow them. So they showed him the steal sign, the hit-and-run sign, the bunt sign. And they told him that when a coach swiped his arms, that took off all signs.
Not long after, Henderson was on first, and the coach swiped his arms, signaling to Henderson that he was to stay. Rickey stole second anyway, and came around to score. The next time he reached first, the coach again swiped his arms, again signaling Henderson to stay. Rickey stole second again.
La Russa furiously cornered Henderson in the dugout and asked him why he wasn’t following the signs. Henderson looked puzzled.
“You said if he swipes his arms, that means take off sign,’” Henderson said.
La Russa nodded.
“Well, he swiped his arms,” Rickey said. “And Rickey took off.”
Links
- PBS Retro
- Barcodes Jamming
- The Cube Rule of Food Identification
- FIFA Puskas Awards 2024 - Nominees
- 52 things I learned in 2024
- How Honeycrisp Apples Went From Marvel to Mediocre
- Hand drawn VHS labels
- Maps of city roads
- The Neighborhoods by Rob Stephenson
- Hyper Realistic Pencil Drawings of Metallic Objects by Kohei Ohmori
- The Faux Scientific Taxonomy of Occlupanids (AKA Bread Clip), More on reddit
- One minute in a park
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Thanks for reading. Have a great month,
Clay
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A bit about me: I can be interested in anything, for better or worse. I love photography, travel, golf, and baseball. My latest pursuit is learning the guitar. I write a rad newsletter that I publish monthly.