HeyJaredEndnotes & Backstory
A eclectic look at history, culture and sports by Tim Wendel, a longtime writer-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University.
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Led Zeppelin I -- Cover art that rocked the world (opens the original)
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Remembering Tommy John (opens the original)
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When I was writing High Heat, my search for the fastest pitcher ever, I spent time with Nolan Ryan, Bob Feller, David Price, Steve Dalkowski, Randy Johnson and many others. But one of my favorite conversations was with Tommy John, who passed away earlier this week. Here’s a short except about how close his comeback came to ending before he had the chance to take the mound in a major-league game again.What many don’t realize is that time almost ran out on Tommy John. If anybody needed to go throu
Steps leading to new cover reveal (opens the original)
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The cover for IRISH FALLS, the stand-alone sequel to REBEL FALLS, is now official. Covers can be problematic between writer and publisher. If we don’t agree, the publisher usually has the final say. You hope it doesn’t come to that, but things have gotten contentious with a few of the 17 books I’ve written.Endnotes & Backstory is a reader-supp
Who's the fastest pitcher ever? It's far from an exact science (opens the original)
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The latest technology says that Jacob Misiorowski and Aroldis Chapman are in dead heat to be baseball’s top fireballer, the fastest of the fast. A pitch by Misiorowski of the Milwaukee Brewers was recently clocked at 105.5 mph – the top velocity recorded by a starting pitcher since Major League Baseball began such measurements in 2008. In comparison, Chapman, a longtime relief pitcher, threw a pitch 105.8 mph a few years ago.Sounds definitive and well-documented, right? But we cannot allow the l
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