scott hatteberg

Via their Twitter feed, ESPN posted a video that was originally published on the feeds of Taiki Green and Adam K entitled "Baseball On Film". Since 9:00 a.m. yesterday, the ESPN re-tweet has already been viewed 870,000+ times. The version posted by ESPN is a shorter version of the nine-minute original that uses clips from virtually every notable baseball film ever made along with voiceovers from those movies interspersed atop a tremendous soundtrack that every baseball fan will recognize immediately. This piece of work is why the internet exists.

During the Yakima Bears first homestand of the 2012 N.W.L. season, you may have missed a few ex-Big Leaguers in the stands. Quinton McCracken, who had a stint with the Mariners in 2004, was on a scouting trip to watch how some of the Arizona Diamondbacks prospects were progressing here in Yakima. Sitting behind home plate, next to McCracken, for much of the series though was a 13-year veteran of M