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There’s a new kid on the block, the result of a terrific website that literally outgrew itself. Jam-packed with over 400 audio clips and several thousand photo’s its popularity as an online baseball library continues to grow.

“Sounds of Baseball” is the dream of Steve Contursi, a teacher and non-apologetic baseball aficionado from Catskill, New York, and is the culmination of years of work on an archaic system of programming known as “coding”. It involved the ideas around what it could, should, and would be, and eventually ended up as an informative website that was like no other.

Most of the data on the website could be found somewhere else in the blogosphere, but it would have been a real challenge to find a website that contained all of this specific type of data in the same place.

This was and this is exactly what he did. Over time and with much patience, “Sounds” reached the level of top-rated baseball websites by the top search engines.

However, change was occurring fast in the internet world and with that came many challenges. A call was put out to the baseball community for someone to help with a transition to a more user-friendly website.

Along came Ronni Redmond of Santa Cruz, CA, a baseball blogger with a small amount of baseball knowledge, and not a lot of computer experience. But she wrote a decent blog, had an insatiable appetite for anything baseball and lots of chutzpah and opinions.

This is the new “Sounds of Baseball”. Its foundation is the original “Sounds” with a few little ditties thrown in and published in a Word Press format that’s much easier to maintain. The Site will be evolving as new material becomes available. Goodbye to coding and hello to the formation of an unlikely pairing of a fan of the New York Yankees and a fan of the SF Giants and all teams in-between.

We hope you’ll visit the site. So please grab a cup of coffee, pull up a chair, and turn up the volume.

This one’s for you!

“SOUNDSOFBASEBALL.COM“

Sounds of Baseball, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) Non Profit Corporation.

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Tagged baseball audio clips, baseball photos, catskill ny, harry carey, joe diaggio, lou gehrig, lou pinella, ronni redmond, santa cruz ca, steve contursi, TED WILLIAMS

‘Can’t Get Enough of a Good Thing!

Posted on February 7, 2015 | Leave a comment

A few weeks ago my son, while watching a Seattle Seahawks clip, said “I just can’t get enough of this stuff.” And that’s exactly how I felt while watching this interview with Madison Bumgarner. Like a lot of baseball fans who’ve been in a dry spell waiting for Spring Training, I’ve been craving some little tidbit, picture, video, or article about baseball, but especially about Bumgarner. He was in the face of the baseball world everywhere, non-stop for weeks and all of a sudden there was ………nothing!

So when I came upon this 10 minute interview I was in my element. This was ten minutes of Mad Bum responding candidly to questions we’ve all been wanting to ask about him, his family, his feelings, teammates and the game in general. Good Stuff.

And a special thanks to the KNBR staff for putting this together on You Tube so it can be shared with everyone. Spring training just around the corner folks …… See you soon!

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Tagged BASEBALL, KNBR, Madison Bumgarner, Seattle Seahawks, Spring training, YouTube

MLB SALARIES ~ DID THEY GET WHAT THEY PAID FOR?

Posted on October 31, 2014 | Leave a comment

Here’s a list of the 2014 salaries for the Major League Baseball teams. You can get a look at the individual player salaries from USA Today’s website. Individual rankings are interesting because you have to look past 65 players to get to the Royal’s top paid player, James Shields at #66. To find the highest paid “active” player on the Giants roster you’ll go to #29 for Tim Lineceum and further down to #89 for Buster Posey. But the real surprise was Madison Bumgarner who’s way down the list at #271. I’ll bet that’s going to change in the near future huh? Of course, you have to look at the total number of years in the individual contracts to see what the actual value is.

So the question is “Did they get what they paid for?” I’d say the Kansas City Royals management is feeling pretty good about themselves right now, ranking #18 out of 30 for highest salaries and still producing the top American League team in the nation.

RANK	TEAM	CURRENT	DIFF	AVG SALARY
1	Dodgers	$241,128,402	$ –	$7,778,335
2	Yankees	$208,830,659	$ –	$8,031,948
3	Phillies	$179,521,056	$ –	$5,791,001
4	Tigers	$163,078,526	$ –	$5,824,233
5	Red Sox	$154,380,395	$ –	$5,717,792
6	Giants	$148,239,158	$ –	$5,490,339
7	Nationals	$134,366,735	$ –	$4,798,811
8	Rangers	$132,491,596	$ –	$4,140,362
9	Blue Jays	$129,427,700	$ –	$4,793,618
10	Angels	$128,046,500	$ –	$4,415,396
11	Reds	$112,378,771	$ –	$3,405,417
12	Diamondbacks	$111,798,833	$ –	$3,726,627
13	Cardinals	$108,020,360	$ –	$3,857,870
14	Orioles	$105,084,121	$ –	$3,389,810
15	Brewers	$102,724,338	$ –	$3,804,605
16	Rockies	$99,579,071	$ –	$3,688,113
17	Braves	$97,855,673	$ –	$3,156,634
18	Royals	$90,481,500	$ –	$3,351,166
19	Padres	$89,881,695	$ –	$2,899,409
20	White Sox	$89,551,982	$ –	$3,316,740
21	Mariners	$89,539,642	$ –	$3,087,573
22	Twins	$84,912,500	$ –	$3,396,500
23	Mets	$84,281,011	$ –	$3,121,518
24	Indians	$82,500,800	$ –	$3,055,585
25	Rays	$82,035,490	$ –	$2,828,810
26	Pirates	$77,845,999	$ –	$2,883,185
27	Athletics	$77,220,900	$ –	$2,490,996
28	Cubs	$74,546,356	$ –	$2,662,369
29	Astros	$44,985,800	$ –	$1,606,635
30	Marlins	$41,836,900	$ –	$1,549,514

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Tagged BUSTER POSEY, james shields, Madison Bumgarner, mlb player salaries, MLB Salaries, mlb team salaries

Name Origins of all 30 Major League Baseball Teams

Posted on September 22, 2014 | Leave a comment

Cincinnati Red Stockings. 1st Professional Baseball Team

Cincinnati Red Stockings Photo Courtesy “www.todayifoundout.com” Daven Hiskey.

I “Stumbled” on this great post that lists the origins of all 30 Major League Baseball Teams. It appears the Boston Red Sox hold the oldest named team dating back to the 1860’s, popularized by the Cincinnati Red Stockings from 1867-1870 and used by Boston’s National League franchise from 1871-1876.

But the actual team name origin that’s with the same team is the San Francisco Giants, formerly the New York Giants, that dates back to 1885.

Read the original Post Stumbleupon.com, written by Scott Allen.

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DAN UGGLA’S BURYING THE HATCHET!

Posted on July 21, 2014 | Leave a comment

2nd Baseman Dan Uggla in action!

Is this the same DAN UGGLA that helped Jonathan Sanchez clear the dugouts during the 2010 playoffs with Atlanta? Oops! Sorry…..that was Chase Utley. I always get those guys mixed up. But it’s nice to see Danny’s burying the hatchet (Atlanta Braves lingo) in case this might have been an issue.

Here’s his stat’s from Wikipedia. Welcome to San Francisco Dan Uggla ~ after a hopefully short stint with the Fresno Grizzlies, that is :)).

MLB debut
Born: March 11, 1980 (age 34) Louisville, Kentucky
Bats: Right	Throws: Right
April 3, 2006 for the Florida Marlins
Career statistics (through July 15, 2014)
Batting average	.244
Hits	1,127
Home runs	233
Runs batted in	690
On-base percentage	.337
Teams
Florida Marlins (2006–2010) Atlanta Braves (2011–2014)
Career highlights and awards
3× All-Star (2006, 2008, 2012) NL Silver Slugger Award (2010) NL Home Run Derby Participant (2008) NL Player of the Month (August 2011) Miami Marlins all-time career home runleader