Baseball became part of my life in 1969, a perfect time to become a baseball fan. It was the first year the leagues split into divisions, so my baseball life encompasses that entire era. And of course, it was the year of miracle Mets.
In college, I discovered both Strat-O-Matic and Bill James, both helped me think anew about the game. Through the Abstracts, I started scoring games for Project Scoresheet and STATS, Inc. The latter led me to joining STATS in 1990 as their liason to ESPN, where I served for 10 years as the chief researcher for Baseball Tonight.
In 2001, I hosted Baseball Tonight Online for ESPN. When that was not renewed, I joined the blogging revolution and started Baseball Musings. I now blog full time and love every minute of it.
david :
started visiting your site about 2 months ago .
enjoy your work ,
and appreciate your efforts .
regards .
David,
Great site – discovered it last week. Nice to see someone who loves the game.
Was wondering if I could get my blog listed with your tremendous list? It’s a nostalgic, sandlot baseball blog with posts about memories of playing ball in the 50s and 60s.
I’m not trying to sell anything – just a few posts that most “old” kids can relate to if they grew up playing ball on the sandlots.
The website address is listed above.
Regards,
Rich Kenney
You’re a tremendous asset to the blogosphere David. Great work!
David…enjoy your work. We had 24 in, here in Great Barrington. Nice to see someone else in Western Mass enjoys baseball as much as I do. I actually have some Pinto’s in my family tree…originally from Fall River…
My dad is a longtime fan of all things to do with baseball and reads your blog. I love baseball too, and you and my dad inspired me to write my own blog as I travel with my family to visit 7 ballparks in 9 days. My goal is to visit all 30 over this summer and next.
I enjoy your musings…almost as much as I enjoyed the Mets’ 1969 championship, not to mention 1986, and, on a personal note, are you related to the Dave Pinto who I met in New York in the 1960s and 70s, and who would, if he’s still with us, be about 70 or so?
John LaVine
John LaVIne » No, no relation.
Daivd,
A great blog you have here with great writing and excellent design. I was wondering if there is any advice you could give to a fellow blogger?
RDG » My only advice is to write often. The more you write, the better you get.
I stumbled across this website today. I find it very impressive. I have also created a spreadsheet with percentage of base runners driven in. In mine I have subtracted out all those PAs in which the batters received a BB with runners on except for those cases with a bases-loaded situation. The difference in percentage for a few players I quickly checked was about 2%.
When I have time I am going to check yours against mine.
David:
I admire your work …truly superb.
Jack Magan
Chevy Chase, MD
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Hi David
Great site. I would really like to speak with you. I need to hire someone with a great knowledge of baseball and would appreciate your thoughts. Steven
Steve B » pinto@baseballmusings.com
Dear Mr.Pinto, great page with very interesting up to the minute baseball information. I wanted to introduce my self and my web page, like you with the 1969 miracle Mets, we share some in common. Miracles and Baseball. I would like for you to visit my site, I wanted to ask you if you would be interested in writing a piece on my site. Thanks Andy Castellanos.
Hello David, I was ding some deep beisbol diving, I’m pleased to see your active.
Geoffrey Gonzalez
Hi David. This site is amazing. So much to delve into and since I just discovered it, I’m going to have to spend a lot more time here. Good to learn about you and I definitely remember your work from Baseball Tonight, even though I just now learned it was you with all those stats 🙂
Just want to say I love that you are still doing this. I read your site regularly back when you were doing the podcast–2007-8 or so, but eventually got away from it. I just remembered it and came back after probably a decade break, and everything still feels the same (in a good way). Glad to see, and if you ever start doing the podcast again, I’d definitely listen.
Thank you, Chris. I may retire in a few years, and then I would probably have time for the podcast.