Mostly baseball: HodgePodge for Apr. 4

​As a firm named after a baseball player and manager, you can imagine that MLB’s Opening Day is a pretty big deal around here. In honor of this young baseball season, we’ve got a few interesting baseball stories plus a couple interesting unrelated items.

Swing away

The story of jazz and baseball, two of America’s greatest contributions to the world of disposable time, have some common history. The Smithsonian tells the story through some rare footage of Duke Ellington playing ball.

Striking decisions

MLB umpires will use replay on certain calls, like home runs and force out, but not for calling balls and strikes. This New York Times opinion piece argues technology would do a better job at calling the strike zone.

Game on

Baseball fans take some technology, like stadium lights, for granted, but the story of how lights came to the majors is pretty interesting.

Ready player one

Baseball may be America’s pastime, but last year 71 million people watched other people play video games.

About a movie

Here are 21 things you might not have known about Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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