ONE SMALL STEP FOR BLOG, ONE, WELL, KINDA SMALL STEP TOO FOR BLOGKIND: For what appears (until proven false, at least) to be the first time, the Best American Sportswriting annual (admit it, you read a piece in this every time you're at Borders) has selected for inclusion, in its 2007 edition, an amateur blog post. The post in question, Bugs Bunny, Greatest Banned Player Ever, is funny even if you're not a baseball fan (though I suppose if you're neither a baseball nor a cartoon fan it might not be up your alley). It's an examination of the epic Gas House Gorillas-Tea Totallers match in the classic "Baseball Bugs" cartoon.
BAS has run pieces, presumably paid, from ESPN.com and Slate before, but this story was assuredly a labor of love for USSMariner.com, an always-insightful, sometimes-cranky blog run at not-inconsequential financial cost by a group of Seattle Mariners fans who are far smarter than the team's management. In full disclosure, the piece's author is only quasi-amateur -- he wrote for Baseball Prospectus and his first book, the The Cheater's Guide to Baseball, is coming out soon, but it's still nice to see BAS recognizing great writing no matter what the medium. Congratulations to DMZ for the honor and condolences to USS Mariner for the increased server load it will bring.
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