Six Degrees of Manny
August 10, 2008
One of the pleasures of the Sunday Boston Globe is reading the baseball notes, a long collection of short essays, stats, random facts, and other baseball detail. The format is a staple in major metropolitan newspapers, usually for the four major team sports (baseball, football, basketball, and hockey), but my memory tells me it was invented by Peter Gammons when he was the Globe’s baseball beat writer.
Today’s notes has a terrific graphic detailing the “six degrees of separation” from Manny Ramirez to each of the sluggers ahead of him on the all-time home run list. Unfortunately, they only shoveled into a GIF format, not even bothering to add links. They could have created something that was fun and instructive. Still, the details are cool—who knew, for instance, that Dave Winfield and Willie McCovey were once teammates?
Posted by Bill Trippe at August 10, 2008 2:44 PM
