Thursday, July 05

Baseball Weirdness: True Or Not?

by Sam Kemmis 11 months ago

It's Keep America Weird Week on Woot, and we ask: Is there anything weirder of more American than baseball? The game's 150-plus-years of history are positively packed with oddity, bizarreness, and good ol' fashioned incomprehensibility.

But how well do you know your weird baseball history? Below are six eldritch baseball tales. Three are true, and three are wholly fabricated. Can you separate baseball fact from baseball fiction? (Answers in the link at the bottom)

Thursday, June 14

Sean University: The Ball's In Your Court, Dads

by Sean Adams a year ago

Since it’s Dad Week on the Woot blog, today’s Sean Adams University of Business Management Development Leadership summer elective course will focus on new and exciting alternatives to the age-old father-son activity, tossing the ball around! Check it out!

Thursday, April 19

The Trivial Eye: Baseball Team Colors

by Jason Toon a year ago

If you're a baseball fan, you have no trouble identifying the cap emblems and jersey logos of Major League Baseball teams. But what about the team colors? Can you spot the subtle differences in the various shades of red and blue? Are you aware of the sometimes-esoteric third and fourth official colors of every team? I've used the "team color" info on Wikipedia, including the precise RGB codes, to put together these swatches for eight big-league teams. Can you name the teams that wear these colors?

Answers are here. Please post your guesses, speculations, or arguments below! But know this: the Trivial Eye is presented for public amusement and no prizes are offered other than that familiar feeling of aggravation that so much of your mind is occupied by useless trivia.