I frequently keep track of the latest scuttlebutt in baseball, especially around the deadline and with the Phillies fading fast, and I keep reading about Brian Fuentes.

Monday, March 12, 2018. Is the 1990s Cub Pitcher Death Phenomenon Unusual? With the recent release of the February 2018 SABR Biographical Research Committee newsletter. It was revealed that a few deaths from years past slipped through the cracks. One of them was former lefty reliever D. Who last played in 2012, but whose 2016 death somehow evaded the notice of the baseball world. Another was former journeyman righty reliever Randy Veres.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013.

Friday, February 9, 2018. The Legacy of Jeff Fisher is Encapsulated in This Very Column; Sportswriters with Good Intentions Making Excuses for His Mediocrity. I have come back to vanquish my foe, Jeff Fisher. Apparently he is my foe. When I say Jeff Fi.

Fire Everybody in the Whole World! AKA The Most Known Unknown Sports Blog. In the obscurest way possible. Tuesday, October 28, 2008. Since Passive Voice and Archie did their own farewell posts, I figured I better do one as well.

Everyone? Monday, October 8, 2012. Mike Trout also had an amazing season.

Ancestrial Links for the Gaffney-Phelan Family. Ehr, Tix, Frost. Genealogical sorties into the past. In what is now Newburyport.

A few experts suggested the Arizona Cardinals stay home and not bother going to Carolina to take on the Panthers. The prevailing belief was the Card could throw like demons but not much else. Nor were they much of a defensive outfit. They have done all these things.

Thoughts on movies, music, art, life and other stuff that matters. Wednesday, September 14, 2016. Write searing essay on inadequacy of rape response. Print out copies, place in empty glass bottles, throw into ocean. Make sure everyone knows that, until homelessness is substantially reduced, your boycott of Fabergé eggs will continue unabated. Friday, August 19, 2016. Monday, May 2, 2016.

Welcome to the personal Web site for Keith Law. My blog on food, literature, and other non-baseball topics. Author of How to Learn Any Language. Head of the National Foreign Language Resource Center. Comparing over 60 major languages by grammar, script, and other variables. My method for using flash cards to build foreign language vocabulary. All content 2005-10 Keith Law.