The new Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2012 is out today. As usual, publisher Dave Studenmund and his staff have done a terrific job gathering provocative commentary on the baseball season just ended, and have stuffed the book with the fascinating and useful statistics and analysis that makes the Hardball Times website such an enjoyable hang-out for baseball fans.
Dave consented to allowing this year’s Annual to include an essay on some of the important ethics issues that surfaced during the season, and it bears my name as author. I’m proud to be part of such an excellent publication.
If you are a baseball fan, I recommend The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2012 heartily. You can order it, and many other nifty baseball books, here.
Now back to our regularly scheduled ethics alarms…
Ethics Alarms 
You allowed your name to be placed on an ethics column? Ethics, meet irony.
Well, you lost me that time. Too ironic for me…you did mean “ethics article”, right?
Essay? Column? Article? Essentially synonyms. I was more going for the point that you mentioned your name is on the ethics column (in the passive voice), but didn’t say anything about writing it.
It was a cheap shot at technically correct grammar that is inherently ambiguous.
Try to be unassuming, and this is the thanks I get!
Out of curiosity, is Julio Lugo’s exuberant acceptance of an obviously terrible call (and I’m a Braves fan) in that billion-inning game covered? I was a little surprised it didn’t show up here.
It isn’t, I was limited by space, and only five issues are covered in any detail. I have to admit, as a Red Sox fan, I was so shattered after the final day of the regular season that I didn’t start thinking about the Braves game until it was too late—I already get complaints for concentrating on baseball ethics too much. You’re right–it would have been a good topic to cover.
I accidentally discovered this, and wonder if you are following it. It’s about one particular player (Darvish) and about Nippon baseball business (“posting”) that I knew nothing about till now. Is there perhaps an ethics issue in this that you might want to post about? A Curt Flood-ish “respect for persons” issue, perhaps?
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=jp-passan_yu_darvish_posting_japan_111511