For those of you not familiar with Seamheads and/or Baseball Digest Daily, I wanted to give you an idea of all that the baseball that's explored on this platform.  On top of the minor leagues, covered by Big League Futures, we are also proud to have Seamheads in the BDD family. 

Seamheads covers mainly the historical side of the game, but also offers more actual events analysis and opinions.  Today, Matt Sisson present an interview he had with Rob Neyer (you might have heard of him...).  Here's a long excerpt, but please read the rest in this Seamheads post.

(Matt Sisson) Rob, you have sort of a famed and unorthodox history in your evolution as a baseball writer. Can you talk a little of the path you took to becoming the writer you are today?

(Rob Neyer) Today the path seems like ancient history, as I've now been working for ESPN for more than 12 years. Before that, I: dropped out of college, roofed houses, worked for Bill James for four years, was the world's worst freelance writer for ten months, and worked for STATS, Inc. for two-and-a-half years.

(MS) Being known for your in-depth analysis of baseball statistics, what would you say remains to be the biggest statistical unknown with the data available today?

(RN) How to keep young pitchers healthy.

(MS) What are your top 5 favorite baseball websites?

(RN) Oh, that's not fair, because I'm going to offend whoever's No. 6. I do check Baseball Think Factory's Newsstand many times every day, and of course Baseball-Reference.com, but for my other recommendations I would just ask readers to check the links in my ESPN.com blog. And it's constantly a work in progress, as I'm discovering new blogs and bloggers all the time.

(MS) What kind of influence do you see sites like Baseball Prospectus, The Hardball Times, etc, having on the game?

(RN) We're still in the middle of that story, so it's awfully hard to say. But we know that various writers for those sites have actually been hired by major league teams, and it's reasonable to assume that they've played roles in significant, far-reaching front-office decisions. Again, though, it's too early to know for sure. I've said that in 20 years, every general manager in professional sports will have read (and probably been intoxicated by) Moneyball. Well, in 20 years nearly every general manager in baseball will have grown up reading BP and THT, too.

(MS) What record in baseball history would you say is the most unlikely to be broken?

(RN) Anything related to starting pitchers' workloads: starts, innings, complete games, wins, losses, etc.

(MS) Your newest book, Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Legends, is the third in the "big book" series. Can you tell the Seamheads.com readers a little about the book?

(RN) I would love to! When I worked for Bill James, he invented something he called the "Tracer," which essentially meant finding an old baseball story, then checking to see if it actually happened. Of all the things I did for Bill in my four years with him, researching those stories was my single favorite. So when I was casting about for a book idea a few years ago, I returned to those Tracers and thought I'd like to come with a book full of them. Which gave me an excuse to touch on all sorts of things throughout baseball history.
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Now, for the baseball history maniacs, there is "This Week in Baseball: 1903".  Here's a long excerpt:

This is the first of a weekly series in which I describe what was happening in Major League Baseball each week of a randomly chosen year. This week's article chronicles the goings on during the week of March 24-31, 1903.

March 24:

"Say wouldn't you like to go out this afternoon and see a lively game of baseball?" asks the Boston Globe. Shut up, you tantalizing bean eater!"—Denver Post

    * American League president Ban Johnson denies a report that the AL and NL have agreed to enact a "blacklist" rule, which would banish all future contract jumpers in addition to team owners who tempted said players to jump. "The blacklist has never been discussed between the leagues since the Cincinnati conference," Johnson told the Chicago Tribune. "At that time, as was announced then, we had a long discussion, and for a while it looked as if both (George) Davis and (Ed) Delahanty would be blacklisted, but we came to the conclusion it would not be just to the players unless we made a clean sweep of it and ruled out the whole crowd of double dealers, including (John T.) Brush and (John) McGraw."

Davis had spent most of his career with the New York Giants, splitting his time between center field and third base, before becoming the Giants' full-time shortstop in 1897. He became the best defensive shortstop in the league and was bettered at the plate by only Hughie Jennings and Bill Dahlen. Following the 1901 season, Davis jumped his contract to play for the Chicago White Sox and became the best shortstop in the American League, batting .299 and fielding at a league best .951 clip. But, after only one year in the AL, Davis wanted to return to the Giants. Unfortunately, the terms of the St. Nicolas Peace Pact, which brought an end to the player-raiding war between the leagues, stated that Davis was the property of the White Sox and would not be allowed to return to the National League. "Once an American League player, always an American League player; once a National League player, always a National League player," Johnson insisted.

Davis contended that his 1901 contract legally bound him to the Giants and he announced he'd be playing for the Giants in 1903 or he wouldn't be playing at all. He did, in fact, suit up for the Giants and appeared in four games before word of Davis' insolence reached the newly formed National Commission, composed of Johnson, National League president Harry Pulliam and Reds owner Garry Herrmann. Herrmann, the Commission's chairman, ruled that Davis was ineligible to play for the Giants and that he was legally bound to the White Sox. Davis refused to play for Chicago and took his case to court. He lost his case and sat out the rest of the '03 season, but returned to the White Sox in 1904 and played six more seasons for the Sox before calling it quits in 1909.

At the same time Davis jumped his contract, Delahanty jumped from the Philadelphia Phillies to the Washington Senators and became the AL's best hitter. Rather than blacklisting him, the National Commission allowed him to remain with Washington in 1903. Delahanty met with tragedy on July 2, however, when the drunk and disorderly slugger was banished from a train heading from Detroit to New York, then fell from the International Bridge and into the raging Niagra River below. His body was found a week later.

    * It's announced that the New York Highlanders (Yankees) will pay a rent of $6,000 for the right to play at Hilltop Park in 1903, and that it will increase incrementally for 10 years until it reaches $11,000 in the final year of the deal.

March 25:

    * The Boston Globe reports that the Americans (Red Sox) enjoyed some "fine batting practice" during a "scrub game," during which Patsy Dougherty goes 6-for-8 with a double and a triple. Boston manager Jimmy Collins announces that he would not be surprised if Dougherty won the AL batting title, "as he can lay them down as well as hit out, and runs like a grayhound [sic] to first."

Dougherty didn't win the batting title that year (nor in any other), but he was as good as advertised, finishing third in hitting behind Nap Lajoie and Sam Crawford with a .331 AVG and leading the league in hits, runs, at-bats, and plate appearances. He also stole 35 bases, which was good for third in the AL. He, too, was a contract jumper, having come to Boston from Cincinnati in September 1901. He batted .342 in his first season in Boston and finished third in the batting race that year as well. He was also involved in a controversial trade in 1904 that was engineered by Ban Johnson and designed to strengthen the New York club. New York received Dougherty in return for a little-known and little-used infielder named Bob Unglaub, who was in the hospital being treated for blood poisoning. Dougherty never again reached the heights he'd achieved in 1902-03, while Unglaub had a relatively undistinguished six-year career.

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