Just a few bits of news and amusement while wondering how you write about exciting players without mentioning this guy (and that's not even counting what he did in this other sport!) ...
• With the extension of Bud Selig's contract through 2012, Maury Brown says Selig's Hall of Fame plaque is a fait accompli. Agreed, and that was true before this week; the moment Bowie Kuhn was elected, the notion that Selig wouldn't someday be elected became unthinkable. Shoot, even I would vote for him.
• The Library of Congress has made a great number of baseball photographs available, circa 1911-1913. Great stuff, available for Web viewing, and best of all (for aspiring baseball authors and baseball bloggers) ... it's all in the public domain and available to anybody for the bargain price of zero.