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Weekly Athletics Release Five – Monday, September 24, 2012
Women's Cross Country
Last week: Montevallo Falcon Classic – 6th Place
Next Meet: JSU Foothill Invitational (Oxford, Ala. – 10/5)
The North Georgia College & State University women's cross country team finished sixth as a team Saturday morning in their first 6K of the season at the University of Montevallo's Falcon Classic.
Emily Beusse recorded her fourth top-10 of the season as she finished sixth overall in a time of 23:41.
Emily Roemer was second on the team with a time of 25:51.
Meagan Anstett (26:16), Sallie Davis (26:20), Dottie Kellogg (26:54), Karley Barcus (27:07) and Alexia Miller (27:59) rounded out the scoring seven for the Saints.
Montevallo's Haley Evans claimed the individual crown in the 6K in a time of 23:20.72.
Clayton State won the team title with Columbus State second and the Falcons in third.
North Georgia will get a week off before next competing in the Jacksonville State University Foothill Invitational on Friday, Oct. 5 in Oxford, Ala.
Men's Golf
Last week: USCA/Kiawah Island Intercollegiate – 10th Place
Next Tournament: USCMyrtle Beach Intercollegiate (Myrtle Beach, S.C. – 10/1-2)
The North Georgia men's golf team finished 10th out of 19 teams at the Ninth-Annual USCA/Kiawah Island Intercollegiate last week down in Kiawah Island, S.C. The team played at the Cougar Point Golf Club and finished with a team-score of 603.
Sophomore Will Bracket led the way for the Saints in the two-day, 72 par tourament with a combined 147 (71, 76). The score placed him in a tie for 19th overall in the field while teammate Zach Caldwell carded a 148 (75, 73) to finish 23rd overall.
The North Georgia men will return to the Palmetto State next week for the Myrtle Beach Intercollegiate held at the Sea Trail Golf Resort in Myrtle Beach, S.C. The tournament will run from Monday, Oct. 1 through Tuesday, Oct. 2.
Women's Golf
Last week: Montevallo/Full Moon BBQ Invitational – 5th Place
This week: Lander Lady Bearcat Invitational (Hilton Head, S.C. – 9/29-30)
The women's golf team, led by senior Catalina Olarte and junior Casey Truelove, finished their second tournament of the year with a fifth-place finish in the Montevallo/Full Moon BBQ Invitational. The Saints carded a team score of 639.
Lander University claimed the team crown in the tournament with 610 to give them a four-stroke lead over Columbus State. The Cougars' Kimesha Anthony won the individual crown.
Olarte finished the tournament with a total stroke count of 154 (75, 79) to place her sixth overall while Truelove posted a pair of 80's to leave her tied for 15th with a 160. Abbey Gill finished in a tie for 19th with a two-round score of 161.
The women will be back out on the links this Saturday, Sept. 29 and Sunday, Sept. 30. The Saints will be competing in the Lander Lady Bearcat Invitational held at the Old South Golf Links in Hilton Head, S.C.
Mixed Rifle
Last week: Columbus State & Alabama Birmingham – 2nd Place
This week: Home – SEARC 1 (9/22-23)
The North Georgia College & State University mixed rifle team opened their NCAA rifle season this past weekend in Fort Benning, Ga. competing with nationally-ranked 16th Columbus State University and the University of Alabama-Birmingham. The team finished second behind CSU.
Led by freshman Casadie Bragg, the team set a new school record (2158) in the three-stance smallbore event. Bragg claimed the event with a solid 560 out of a possible 600.
Columbus State's Abbey Casey claimed the air rifle portion of the match with a strong 583 out of 600. Bragg once again led the Saints in the event with a fifth-place finish.
The Saints broke four of the school's six records in the match.
North Georgia will return to action this coming weekend, Saturday, Sept. 29 and Sunday, Sept. 30 as they host the season-opening air rifle tournament for the Southeastern Rifle Conference (SEARC) in the Colonel Hamilton range, on campus at the far (east) end of the Military Leadership Center, right across from Dairy Queen. At this tournament, Coach Kostecki makes her debut as the new Conference Director.
The events will be the first home matches on the new electronic scoring target system installed over the summer. Similar to targets used in the Olympics, and by most major collegiate teams, shots are scored instantly and displayed on the shooter's individual display screen. Larger spectator screens above each shooter allow spectators to see the shots and scores. A large screen in the range lobby allows spectators to see the targets and live rankings.
Matches start at 8:00 a.m. both days and spectators are welcome all day. Come see the Saints in action and see their upgraded range and targets.
Men's Soccer (3-3, 0-1 PBC)
Last week (1-0): at Lees-McRae (W, 2-1 OT)
This week: Away vs. Anderson (9/26 – 4:00 p.m.)
Home vs. Francis Marion (9/29 – 2:00 p.m.)
The men's soccer team overcame a late 1-0 deficit last week, bouncing back to defeat the Bobcats of Lees-McRae College 2-1 in overtime in their only game of the week.
With just 17 seconds remaining in the second period, Chris Bishop was able to knot the score at 1-1 off a cross from Amin El-Shami to send the game into overtime.
It took just seven more minutes of action for North Georgia's Jamie Gleeson to find the game-winner as he headed the ball into the net off a cross feed by Juan Hurtado .
The Saints will will be back in action on Wednesday, Sept. 26, hitting the road to play South Atlantic Conference foe Anderson University at 4:00 p.m. The men will then return home for their next Peach Belt Conference game on Saturday, Sept. 29. North Georgia will be taking on the Patriots of Francis Marion University in a 2:00 p.m. match at the North Georgia Soccer Field to kick off a two-game homestand.
Women's Soccer (7-1, 1-1 PBC – 5th in Nation by NSCAA)
Last week (0-1): vs. Georgia College (L, 3-2)
This week: Home vs. Pfeiffer (9/26 – 4:00 p.m.)
Away vs. #15 Armstrong Atlantic (9/29 – 1:00 p.m., PBC game)
The North Georgia College & State University women's soccer team ascended to new heights last week as the Saints were ranked fifth-nationally by the National Soccer Coaches of America Association (NSCAA)/Continental Tire NCAA Division II Women's National Poll.
The ranking of fifth sets a new program record in the NCAA Division II era for North Georgia. The 2011 Saints were ranked as high as 10th-nationally.
The Saints were also ranked first in the Southeast Region as they took advantage of the misfortune of several other teams in last week's top-10 including Peach Belt Conference rival No. 4 Columbus State University falling to then No. 24 Armstrong Atlantic State University 1-0. Columbus State fell to 18th-nationally this week while the Pirates of Armstrong Atlantic moved up to 15th.
Later in the week, PBC foe Georgia College dealt the Saints their first loss of the season. The Bobcats' Ashley Veilleux recorded a hat trick in the event as Georgia College led 2-0 heading into half time.
Following the intermission, the Saints went on a tear, scoring two goals in the span of seven minutes. Cicely Taliaferro netted the first goal just 43 seconds in the the second stanza before Abby Trevino scored the second goal seven minutes later. But it would not be enough despite the Saints out-shooting the Bobcats 32-14.
North Georgia will play one more home game to cap off their three-game homestand. The Saints will welcome out of conference foe Pfeiffer University to the North Georgia Soccer Field on Wednesday, Sept. 26 for a 4:00 p.m. match.
Following the home game, the women's soccer team will travel to Savannah, Ga. to take on 15th-ranked Armstrong Atlantic State in a top-20 showdown. The game on Saturday, Sept. 29 will start at 1:00 p.m.
Last week: Competed in the ITA Southeast Regional Championships
The men's and women's tennis teams competed in their second tournament of the early season this past weekend, participating in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Southeast Regional Championships. Both teams played some of the toughest competition they will face all season as the best of the region were in action Friday, Sept. 21 through Sunday, Sept. 23.
The men claimed three victories on Friday including one doubles by Mateus Camasmie and Felipe Friedrich to advance out of the Men's A Doubles "Round of 64."
Also on the men's side, Matheus Guida claimed two wins on Friday to advance into the Men's A Singles "Round of 32."
On Saturday, Camasmie and Friedrich were at it again, this time defeated the eighth-seeded duo of Marco Almorin and Olivier Simonet from Columbus State 8-3.
Rodrigo Magan claimed a 0-6, 6-3, 1-0 (6) win in the Men's A Single Consolation "Third Round" over Columbus State's Adi Malicbegovic while Friedrich defeated USC Aiken's Andey Quirk 6-1, 6-3 in the same round.
On the women's side, Cameron Williams went on to win the Women's A Singles finals of the back draw after falling to top-seeded Paola Cigui in the main draw's first round. Teammate Natalia Escobar made it to the quarterfinals of the backdraw.
Adalyn Hazelman defeated Lander University's Mello Renata 6-2, 7-6 to advance into the Round of 16 and went on to the semifinal round of the Women's B Singles backdraw.
In Women's B Doubles action, Escobar and Nela Handac defeated Limestone College's Julia Moreira and Ariel Svantesson 8-3 to advance out of the quarterfinals.
The North Georgia softball team will start their fall schedule this weekend with a pair of "Black and Blue" intrasquad games. The first will be Friday, Sept. 28 at 4:00 p.m. and the second will be Sunday, Sept. 30 at 3:00 p.m. Parents and fans are welcome to attend to see the Saints in action.
The Saints full fall schedule can be found online under the schedule tab.


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Just wanted to check in and report back to you about some of the Newman's Own Organic products that I have tried thus far. First, you should know that they are a super cool company and give tons of many to charity. And by tons, I mean like over 300 million dollars. Yeah, they are pretty awesome.
And just as a disclaimer: yes, they sent me the products for free. No, I am not required to say nice things about them.
But, how to do their products taste? Well, I already mentioned that these pretzels are awesome.
Seriously, you should go buy some. Like now.
Next up, we tried their Hint O' Mint Newman-O's.
I really enjoyed these. The taste/texture is very similar to that of an Oreo, but with a slight minty flavor. So, if you like Oreos you are sure to love these. While I wouldn't consider these healthy (darn it!), I do like that they are made with mostly organic ingredients and certainly believe they can be part of a nutritious diet.
The only chocolate I've tried so far is the 70% dark chocolate. It's smooth and has a nice flavor, something I would totally purchase. Perfect amount of darkness, without being too bitter. While I eat 90% chocolate sometimes, 70% or so is really my favorite. You people who eat 100% straight up are crazy…. but I love ya anyway :)
I'll be honest, I wasn't a huge fan of the Fig Newman's. But, I probably don't like Fig Newton's either so I'm not a very good judge. Everyone else who tried them seemed to enjoy them, so I'm sure they're wonderful, just not my cup of tea (I do love a good cup of tea!)
I loved the orange flavor in the Orange Chocolate Chip cookies. It's what set them apart from the average store-bought cookie, in my opinion. My mom's comment was "I don't usually buy store-bought cookies but if I was going to, I'd buy these." The only issue I have with them is that a serving is only four and the cookies are pretty small so if you're like me and have the self control of a monkey it would be easy to eat way more than a serving.
But, by far the favorite thing I've tried so far that Newman's sent me are these little guys.
Cinnamon Hermits. They're so chewy and soft and flavorful and delicious and I like that they're different from your regular ol' cookie. They actually taste homemade. Overall, I love them. Like, I might marry them if I could. Is marrying cookies legal? In California?
I think that's all that I've tried to far. In a few weeks, I'll report to you about the rest of the stuff and hopefully I'll eventually have a giveaway too!
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Sinology literally means the study of China and Chinese topics. Sinology may also refer more strictly to the study of classical language and literature, with a philological approach, perhaps in an American academic context. Its origin, says one recent survey, "may be traced to the examination which Chinese scholars made of their own civilization."[1]
In the context of area studies, the European and the American usages differ. In Europe, Sinology is usually known as Chinese Studies, whereas in the United States, Sinology is a subfield of Chinese Studies. The Australian scholar Geremie R. Barmé offers a "New Sinology," one which "emphasizes strong scholastic underpinnings in both the classical and modern Chinese language and studies, at the same time as encouraging an ecumenical attitude in relation to a rich variety of approaches and disciplines, whether they be mainly empirical or more theoretically inflected."[2]
Sino- is derived from Late Latin Sinae from the Greek Sinae from the Arabic Sin which in turn may derive from Qin (Ch'in), that is, the Qin Dynasty (Ch'in Dynasty).[3]
In East Asia, the studies of China-related subjects began early. In Japan, sinology was known as kangaku (漢学?) "Han Studies". In China, the studies of China-related subjects is known as "National Studies" (simplified Chinese: 国学; traditional Chinese: 國學; pinyin: Guóxué; Wade–Giles: Kuo2-hsüeh2), and sinology is translated as "Han Studies" (simplified Chinese: 汉学; traditional Chinese: 漢學; pinyin: Hànxué; Wade–Giles: Han4-hsüeh2). In the Western world, governments set up Asian language departments with pressure on academics to meet their diplomatic and commercial needs.[4]
Age of Enlightenment[edit]
In the West, some writers date the origins of sinology as far back as Benedict of Poland, Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta in the 13th and 14th century, but the systematic study of China began in the late 16th century, when Jesuit missionaries based at St. Paul's College, Macau, notably Matteo Ricci, introduced Christianity to China. The first Sinologist of Eastern Europe were Michał Boym (1612-1659) and Nicolae Milescu (1636–1708). Early sinological research often concentrated on the compatibility of Christianity with Chinese culture.
During the Age of Enlightenment, sinologists started to introduce Chinese philosophy, ethics, legal system, and aesthetics into the West. Though often unscientific and incomplete, their works inspired the development of Chinoiserie and a series of debates comparing Chinese and Western cultures. At that time, sinologists often described China as an enlightened kingdom, comparing it to Europe, which had just emerged from the Dark Ages. Among those European literati interested in China was Voltaire, who wrote the play L'orphelin de la Chine inspired by The Orphan of Zhao, Leibniz who penned his famous Novissima Sinica (News from China) and Giambattista Vico.
In France, the study of China and the Chinese language began with the patronage of Louis XIV. In 1711, he appointed a young Chinese, Arcadio Huang to catalog the royal collection of Chinese texts. Huang was assisted by Étienne Fourmont, who published an grammar of Chinese in 1742.
In 1732 a missionary priest of the Sacred Congregation "De propaganda fide" from the kingdom of Naples, Matteo Ripa (1692–1746), created in Naples the first Sinology School of the European Continent: the "Chinese Institute", the first nucleus of what would become today's Università degli studi di Napoli L'Orientale, or Naples Eastern University. Ripa had worked as a painter and copper-engraver at the Manchu court of the emperor Kangxi between 1711 and 1723. Ripa returned to Naples from China with four young Chinese Christians, all teachers of their native language and formed the Institute sanctioned by Pope Clement XII to teach Chinese to missionaries and thus advance the propagation of Christianity in China.
In 1814, a chair of Chinese and Manchu was founded at Collège de France. Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, who taught himself Chinese, filled the position, becoming the first professor of Chinese in Europe. By then the first Russian Sinologist, Nikita Bichurin, had been living in Beijing for ten years. Abel-Rémusat's counterparts in England and Germany were Samuel Kidd (1797–1843) and Wilhelm Schott (1807–1889) respectively, though the first important secular sinologists in these two countries were James Legge and Hans Georg Conon von der Gabelentz. Scholars like Legge often relied on the work of ethnic Chinese experts such as Wang Tao. From 1850 to 1980, European Sinologists particularly valued classical competence in Classical Chinese.[4] Secular scholars gradually came to outnumber missionaries, and in the 20th century sinology slowly gained a substantial presence in Western universities.
In modern history, sinology has seen its influence in politics, due to its role in think tanks. The divide between China (the People's Republic of China) and Taiwan (the Republic of China) has further added to the complexity of study.[5] Funding for Chinese studies may come from a variety of sources; one prominent source, especially for Taiwanese studies, is the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation.[6]
During the Cold War, China Watchers centered in Hong Kong, especially American government officials or journalists. Mutual distrust between the United States and China and the prohibition of travel between the countries meant they did not have access to press briefings or interviews. They therefore adopted techniques from Kremlinology, such as the close parsing of official announcements for hidden meanings, movements of officials reported in newspapers, and analysis of photographs of public appearances. But in the years since the opening of China, China watchers can live in China and take advantage of normal sources of information.
- Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême Orient
- Chinese Heritage Quarterly, China Heritage Project, Australian National University
- Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
- Journal of Asian Studies
- Journal Asiatique
- Late Imperial China
- Monumenta Serica
- Sino-Platonic Papers
- T'oung Pao
- Toho Gakuho
- Toyoshi Kenkyu
See also[edit]
- ^ Cf. p.4, Zurndorfer, China Bibliography
- ^ Barmé, Geremie R., On New Sinology, China Heritage Project, The Australian National University
- ^ American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 3rd edition 1992): 1686.
- ^ a b Hodge, Bob; Louie, Kam (2012). "How to Read Dragons". The Politics of Chinese Language and Culture. Psychology Press. p. 3.
- ^ Rosenthal, Elizabeth (May 1, 2001). "For China-Born U.S. Citizens, Visiting Homeland Has Risks". The New York Times.
- ^ Brown, Deborah (September–December 2004). "Organizations That Support Taiwan Studies: A Select Overview". Issues & Studies 40 (3/4): 281–314.
References and further reading[edit]
- Asato, Noriko, ed. (2013). "China". Handbook for Asian Studies Specialists: A Guide to Research Materials and Collection Building Tools. ABC-CLIO. pp. 25–134. ISBN 978-1-59884-843-4.
- Barrett, Timothy Hugh, Singular Listlessness: A Short History of Chinese Books and British Scholars (London: Wellsweep, 1989). 125p. "Published in its original form in F. Wood, ed., British Library Occasional papers, 10: Chinese studies [1988], p. 9-53.".
- Cayley, John & Ming Wilson ed., Europe Studies China: Papers from an International Conference on the History of European Sinology, London: Han-Shan Tang Books, 1995.
- Cole, James H. (2003). Twentieth Century China: An Annotated Bibliography of Reference Works in Chinese, Japanese, and Western Languages. M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-7656-0395-1.
- Honey, David B., Incense at the Altar: Pioneering Sinologists and the Development of Classical Chinese Philology, New Haven: American Oriental Society, 2001. (See also E.G. Pulleyblank's review of the work in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 122, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep., 2002), pp. 620–624, available through JSTOR).
- Mungello, David E., Curious Land: Jesuit Accommodation and the Origins of Sinology, Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, 1985; rpr. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1989 ISBN 0824812190.
- Yang Liansheng, Excursions in Sinology (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969).
- Yunshan Ye (2014). ALA Guide to Researching Modern China. American Library Association. ISBN 978-0-8389-1209-6.
- Zurndorfer, Harriet, "A Brief History of Chinese Studies and Sinology," in China Bibliography: A Research Guide to Reference Works About China Past and Present (Leiden: Brill Publishers, 1995. ISBN 90-04-10278-7; reprinted, University of Hawai'i Press, 1999 ISBN 0824822129), pp. 4–44.
External links[edit]
|Look up Sinology or Sinologist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- Sinology Wiki
- China Digital Times
- (Chinese) Guoxue
- Chinese Text Project
- Chinese Civilisation Centre - City University of Hong Kong
- Electronic Resources for Chinese Studies and East Asian Libraries
- Sinology Project, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- China Heritage Project - Australian National University
- Torbjörn Lodén,"Swedish Sinology: A Historical Perspective" (archived)
- "Internet Guide for Chinese Studies". Netherlands: Sinological Institute, Leiden University.
Library guides[edit]
- "Chinese Studies". Library Guides. USA: University of Chicago.
- "Chinese Studies". Research Guides. Harvard University Library.
- "Chinese Studies". Resources by Subject. USA: Indiana University Bloomington Libraries.
- "China and Inner Asia". Subject Guides. School of Oriental and African Studies Library, University of London.
- "Chinese Studies". Research Guides. USA: University of Michigan.
- Northwestern University Library. "Chinese Studies". LibGuides. Illinois, USA: Northwestern University.
- "China and Inner Asia". Oxford LibGuides. Oxford, UK: University of Oxford, Bodleian Libraries.
- University Libraries. "Research Resources for Chinese Studies". Research Guides. New Jersey: Rutgers University.
- "Area Studies". Subject Guides. National University of Singapore Libraries. (includes China)


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Serena obviously. I mean i dislike them both, but I prefer Serena anyday. Azarenka is just a sneaky ***** and frustrates the hell out of me.
@Midnight; yeah, she seemed too tense for my liking though. It's like once she hit 5-2 in the first set she just completely tightened up and that affected her till the start of the 3rd
It reminded me a lot of her semi against Petra in Aust to tell you the truth, except Vika stayed strong whereas Petra choked.
Very strong year at the slams, other than Wimbe but she fixed that up with her Olympic run. Still got 3 tournaments left, and i expect something BIG!
2013 will be Maria's year; the off season she needs to work on her out wide serve on the ad court so she can slam a few aces there, she relies way too much on the down the T on ad and out wide on Deuce for my liking. I was really surprised Vika wasn't leaning to that side more often.
Also moving forward, i really wanted her to slam a few right at Vika and fist pump aggressively and scream, that would be great.
Loving this emotion by the way, seeing Maria pumped is fantastic
I am disappointed but not sad. Maria should be proud of herself for getting so far in the tournament and for fighting so hard in the 3rd set. She had lots of chances in the second. Her serves let her down as usual during crucial moments. If only she can serve consistently like Serena she wouldn't be giving us so much grief watching her play live. I get so nervous watching her serve even when she's playing round 1!!.
I feel Maria is too spent to put up a fight against Serena tomorrow anyway so it is sort of a blessing to be spared another loss in a final. To beat Serena you need to be extra fit, sharp, and consistent.
I don't want to see Vika lifting the trophy so I will be rooting for Serena. For the sake of wta and tennis I hope they go to 3 sets and produce some great entertaining tennis. Sam gave her a run for her money last year.
Maria had a good chance to be No.1! If She could win US Open, she would be No.1 and ended year by No.1!! There are just few tournaments that WTA top players will play, I hope Maria wins them and comes back to No.1 again!Come on Maria!
There is one one thing that came out of this match. Maria didn't have to contract a stomach virus to use as an excuse for getting her pants thrashed off her in the Final, and she shouldn't have to cancel her Asian Tour which, incidentally, the Dark Side of the game never plays.
Notice how all these commentators got hold of a new set of statistics to play with... The three set match.....Maria has played 13. What they fail to tell you is that whenever Maria plays 2 or more in a Match...she ultimately looses the Tourny.
Did you notice Thomas and the Team. Who's idea was that to dress them all identical... and in short pants too. Look like a bunch of Gay Frat boys. Gay boys in Blue. I hope Maria doesn't make them dress like that.
The reality is that it does not matter whether you've played great but unfortunately it's all about results. Maria is simply having HUGE problem beating Serena and NOW Vika which pissed me off the most.
The only good news about this outcome from the US Open is that Maria has FINALLY reached the SF!!
IMO, she needs to work more on her physics.
Unfortunately Dr Bartoli is otherwise engaged. :P I'm joking but I'm not. What other coach is so focused on and adroit with the Physics?
All Saturday play delayed by rain.
I guess we just need to wait and see how she'll react on this lost. She really needs to step up. Yeah Vika is her new rivalry, her beast for the next 5 years.
LSH posts: Sunday (09 September) 11:00 Djokovic - Ferrer To Finish 2-5
Monday (10 September) 19:00 Williams - Azarenka
Could have, should have, would have but didn't. Stop living in the past, what's done is done and there is no use worrying about it.
There were only a few moments in 2012 that really mattered:
Those last forever. The rest are just history.
Maria lost but It's amazing that she got this far, honestly. I am very proud of her and now let's wait till the next tournament. Masha is the best. :) !!! HM


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A gripping saga: 11 tales of pitchers using spitters, sandpaper and scuffing
In the wake of allegations by Blue Jays broadcasters Dick Hayhurst and Jack Morris that Boston's Clay Buchholz applied a foreign substance to the baseball on Wednesday in Toronto, it's worth remembering that baseball lore is chockfull of colorful stories of pitchers (or position players) doctoring the baseball by various means. Saliva, sweat, scuffing, sandpaper, and substances such as Vaseline, K-Y Jelly, pine tar and glue have all been used in the years since Major League Baseball officially outlawed the spitball after the 1920 season. Most pitchers aren't choirboys; get any one talking long enough, and he'll probably own up to a bit of dabbling in the black arts, at least "in the bullpen" — nudge-nudge, wink-wink, say no more.
It isn't just the marginal ones who search for that extra something that will make the ball dart unpredictably, either. Many a good pitcher has been accused of doctoring the ball by a frustrated opponent (or an opponent's adjunct, as Dirk Hayhurst and Jack Morris served when accusing Buchholz). Some pitchers have even owned up to doing so. Only a few have been caught and drawn ejections or suspensions; in my Buchholz piece I listed 12 from the 1980-2012 range. What follows is a colorful but hardly comprehensive tour through the annals — accusations, admissions and the occasional action to eject or suspend — ordered roughly by chronology.
Preacher Roe: A late-blooming, wily lefty who became a mainstay of the Boys of Summer-era Brooklyn Dodgers staff, Roe confessed to using a "Beech-Nut slider" less than a year after retiring, in the pages of a 1955 Sports Illustrated article by Dick Young:
"One way I figured out to keep my fingers clean, was to wipe 'em on the visor of my baseball cap. It looked like I was adjusting it on my head. I always made certain the visor was kept clean. I even went to the trouble of brushing it off with a towel on the bench between innings.
"It didn't take long for some of the hitters to figure there was something going on between my spitter and the way I fingered the cap. That was just fine for me. I started using the gesture as a decoy. That was as good as the pitch itself. From then on, even when I wasn't going to throw a wet one, I'd go to my cap just to cross them up."
Whitey Ford: A Hall of Famer who pitched for 11 pennant-winning Yankees teams during his career (1950-1967), Ford was open to admitting to all kinds of shenanigans after his playing days were over. "I didn't cheat until later in my career when I needed something extra to survive," he told FoxSports' Hal McCoy last year. "I didn't cheat when I won the 25 games in 1961. I don't want anybody to get any ideas about taking away my Cy Young Award. And I didn't cheat in 1963 when I won 24 games. Well, maybe a little." Ford said he would use his wedding ring, his belt buckle or catcher Elston Howard's shinguard to scuff the ball, as well as a "gunk" composed of baby oil, turpentine and resin.
Art Fowler: Though he reputedly threw a spitball during his nine-year major league career (1954-1964, with a couple gaps), Fowler is more famous for his long tenure as Billy Martin's pitching coach at several stops, where he'd teach the tricks of the trade. Most famously, he's said to have taught the spitter to A's starters Mike Norris, Rick Langford, Steve McCatty, Matt Keough and Brian Kingman, a rotation that completed an amazing 94 of 159 starts in 1980, Martin's first year at the helm in Oakland. The team won 83 games, 29 more than the previous year, and their success drove opponents crazy.
"Rick Langford threw about 15 against us," said Yankees manager Gene Michael after one series. "We didn't see Mike Norris, but we know he throws it (the spitter) too. They all do, but Langford was the worst."
Gaylord Perry: The most famous post-ban spitballer, Perry won 314 games and struck out 3,534 batters (still eighth all-time), sometimes by applying a little something extra, sometimes by just letting a batter think he had. It was all part of an elaborate pre-pitch ritual in which he'd touch his cap and various parts of his uniform, as you can see in this video and this one. As Peter Gammons wrote in a 1989 SI article:
Perry has admitted to having used K-Y jelly, vaseline, saliva, fishing-line wax, resin, sweat and dirt to make baseballs do peculiar things. However, he may not have been as much of an outlaw as he led us to believe. Dave Duncan, who was Perry's catcher with the Cleveland Indians in 1974, a season in which Perry went 21-13, claims Perry threw only one spitter that year. "He had a great sinker and just kept up the act [his fidgeting on the mound] to make hitters believe he was loading up the ball." says Duncan. "So they focused on trying to catch him cheating instead of concentrating on how he was pitching them." Though opponents watched him closely. Perry was caught throwing an illegal pitch only once in his career.
Perry, who titled a mid-career autobiography Me and the Spitter, legendarily offered his services to Vaseline as a pitchman, the response to which was contained in a one-line postcard. "We soothe babies' asses, not baseballs." He didn't get busted until 1982, the 21st of his 22 seasons, when he was ejected after umpires found a slippery substance on the ball.
Don Sutton: Another Hall of Famer and 300-game winner and a contemporary of Perry's, Sutton was notorious for the ways in which he would deface baseballs. As Thomas Boswell wrote in "Salvation Through Salivation," a Washington Post column collected in the 1982 classic How Life Imitates the World Series, Sutton
"…has been accused of cutting, scuffing, sandpapering, and generally disfiguring balls in so many ways that he says, 'I ought to get a Black & Decker commercial out of it. The only fun I get now is hiding dirty notes in my uniform pockets for the umpires to find when they search me. I have a bet with [PGA golfer] Gary McCord that if I'm serched on national TV, I'll strip to my undershirt and jock.'"
Tommy John: Groundbreaking elbow surgery wasn't the only thing that enabled John to last 26 years in the majors. Boswell called him "the elegant Rhett Butler of outlaws" and wrote, "[T]he gentlemanly John can turn a tiny scratch into a double-play grounder. Asked how many pitches he has, John said, 'Four basic ones—fastball, curve, slider and change-up—plus eight illegal ones.'"
Mike Scott: A mediocrity for the first six years of his career with the Mets and Astros, Scott emerged as an ace with Houston in 1985, and he won the Cy Young the following year, nearly doubling his strikeout rate (from 5.6 per nine to 10.0) while helping his team make the playoffs. His dramatic transformation was said to owe to his learning to throw a split-fingered fastball, but the Mets, his opponents in the 1986 National League Championship Series, believed he had scuffed balls in his 14-strikeout series-opening shutout.
"New York manager Davey Johnson showed a group of reporters eight balls that were scuffed in exactly the same spot — a mark about the size of a 50-cent piece," said one newspaper article. Backed by home pate umpire Doug Harvey, Scott denied the allegations at the time, but in 2011 he came clean… sort of. "I've thrown balls that were scuffed but I haven't scuffed every ball that I've thrown," he said for an MLB Network special.
Joe Niekro: The less famous brother of Hall of Fame knuckleballer Phil Niekro, Joe won 221 games in 22 years himself, but he's remembered as much because he was caught red-handed in 1987, when he was pitching for the Twins in his the penultimate season of his career. Asked by home plate umpire Tim Tschida to empty his pockets, he tried to fling an an emery board and a piece of sandpaper away (see the 34-second mark of this video) but the umps found it immediately:
Niekro claimed he used the emery board to manicure his nails — a plausible alibi for a knuckleballer — and the sandpaper for his blisters, but he drew a 10-day suspension nonetheless.
Jay Howell: As the closer for the 1988 Dodgers, Howell was ejected in the eighth inning of Game 3 of the National League Championship Series against the Mets after pine tar was discovered on his glove; he claimed it was merely to improve his grip. After he was ejected, the Mets rallied for five runs and won the game to take a 2-1 series lead. Howell was suspended for three days (soon reduced to two), an action that even drew criticism from the Mets, who had earlier rallied to beat him in the 9th inning of Game 1. His suspension forced the Dodgers to use Orel Hershiser to close out Game 4 in the 12th inning, and they eventually won the series in seven before going on to upset the A's in the World Series.
Orel Hershiser: He may have looked like a choirboy, but after coming back from 1991 shoulder surgery, Hershiser drew suspicion that he was reaching back for something extra. Ironically, the most famous allegation came from Davey Johnson, who managed the Mets during the 1986 Scott and 1988 Howell controversies; he was piloting the Orioles in 1997 when they faced Hershiser's Indians in the ALCS. After the 39-year-old Hershiser shut out the Orioles for seven innings in Game 3. Johnson spoke up. From the Philadelphia Daily News:
"I know from my experience that Orel likes to put water on the back of his neck… He prefers to have the cover of the ball moist as opposed to dry, and he will get water wherever he can get it… He was going from his mouth right to the ball, and that's illegal. I wanted to point it out to them, and at least Orel was thinking about it."
Adding fuel to the fire, Indians teammate Chad Ogea agreed with Johnson after the game: "I've known Orel for three years and he cheats…He showed me how to cheat, but said I can't do it until I'm about 35." Hershiser laughed off the discussion and wasn't disciplined.
Kenny Rogers: The most famous recent allegations of such skullduggery came in Game 2 of the 2006 World Series between the Tigers and the Cardinals. TV cameras spotted a brown smudge on the thumb of Rogers' left (throwing) hand during the first inning (SI.com later unearthed photos of him with similar smudges from midseason and the ALCS). After umpires conferred before the start of the second inning, Rogers was ordered to clean his hand of the smudge, which was said to be some combination of dirt, rosin or pine tar. He did, and went on to pitch eight scoreless innings in a Detroit win. Said umpire supervisor Steve Palermo after the game:
"There was no formal request made about [Rogers] being inspected… There was a noticeable dirt mark on his pitching hand, and after the first inning, Alfonso Marquez, the home-plate umpire, asked him to remove the dirt so there wouldn't be any question about any controversy. And I think if you see the following innings, he pitched fine without the dirt."
After the game, Cardinals hitting coach Hal McRae accused Rogers of scuffing balls as well, telling USA Today, "We collected about five or six balls that are scuffed. He had to be using his fingernails or something."


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Who doesn't love a great story? In development, we have wonderful stories to tell. We tell stories about children going to school because of cash transfers in Tanzania and about women in Costa Rica who are empowered through their jewelry businesses. The World Bank recently sponsored a day of development storytelling. Armendáriz de Aghion and Morduch recount the following story of a microcredit borrower from Mexico:
"Consider the story of Mrs. Braulia Parra, who lives with a family of seven in a poor neighborhood in Monterrey, Mexico, in a home with cardboard walls and dirt floors. Illiterate and inexperienced in the workplace, Mrs. Parra took her first $150 loan from ADMIC, a local microlender. The loan allowed her to buy yarn and other sewing supplies to make handsewn decorations. Each week she sells about one hundred handmade baskets, dolls and mirrors, going door-to-door in her neighborhood. After ten loans, Mrs. Parra had earned enough to install a toilet in her modest home, as well as an outdoor shower. Building a second floor was next in her sights."
These stories inspire us, but we have to be careful. Stories are dangerous.
Stories are dangerous because they can be wrong. One program I am familiar with provided cash transfers to poor households. In the pilot, the government rolled out the program to a set of randomly selected treatment villages and compared them to a group of control villages. The program had myriad positive impacts (health, education, and much more!), but one area where the program did not have a clear impact was in housing materials. Yet when the researchers visited beneficiary villages and spoke to participants, they highlighted how they had improved their houses with the resources. The data showed that housing did indeed improve in participating villages: It just didn't improve any more there than in comparison villages. In other words, the program was not responsible for housing improvements. But people received resources and they improved their houses, so their story (when speaking to the donors, at least) was that these resources had led to home improvements. If my goal were to start a program to improve housing, and I focused on the stories I heard, I might say: This is a great way to improve housing! I would be mistaken. Rather, it's a great way to let households invest in whatever they most need, which turns out to be insurance and livestock rather than housing.
In the United States, moving anecdotes in which parents observe their children develop the symptoms of autism soon after vaccination led many people not to vaccinate their children long after the vaccination-autism link had been disproved. In both of these examples, through no ill will of the storytellers, there is potential for grave policy errors.
Stories are dangerous because they can be too simple. The economist Tyler Cowen gave a great talk (video; transcript) on stories where he explained that "narratives tend to be too simple. The point of a narrative is to strip it way … Most narratives you could present in a sentence or two."
Here are three of these kinds of stories: We lent this woman 20¢ to start her own bamboo stool business and she lifted herself out of poverty. We gave this child's family $3 per month and they were able to send her to school. We provided training and women now have their own businesses and more freedom.
What do these stories miss? They miss that reality is messy and complicated. These stories miss, perhaps, that only a small fraction of beneficiaries experienced these benefits, or that the program only worked in certain contexts, or that not all handsewn decoration producers are equally effective entrepreneurs.
The inspiring microcredit story above and others like it have played a major role in motivating the microfinance movement, whereas evidence from randomized trials in India and the Philippines tell a much more complex tale, where microcredit has some positive impacts (lower spending on alcohol and tobacco in India, better ability to cope with risk in the Philippines) but also some … non-positive impacts (no increase in consumption in India, slightly lower subjective well-being in the Philippines).
The Upside. At the same time, stories can flesh out what quantitative narratives miss. In an evaluation of conditional cash transfers in Tanzania, we observed that beneficiary households were purchasing more livestock, especially chickens. Only through stories told in focus groups did we understand that these were seen as small business opportunities (selling eggs and chicks).
Take Away. The philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote that one goal of education is to enlarge people's sympathy:
"It may only go so far as sympathy with suffering which is portrayed vividly and touchingly, as in a good novel; it may, on the other hand, go so far as to enable a man to be moved emotionally by statistics. This capacity for abstract sympathy is as rare as it is important."
Most of us aren't quite there yet: Vivid and touching tales move us more than statistics. So let's listen to some stories. Let's be moved. Then let's look at some hard data and rigorous analysis before we make any big decisions.
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This is a great point. We
This is a great point. We need better data, but the stories are a good way to make people more receptive to the conclusions of your data, through empathy, as you say. Thanks for sharing.
You are too kind to stories -
You are too kind to stories - and TED is a good example of that. At the start TED was a place where people came with insights they gathered based on data and turned them into a story. That's risky even in the best of circumstances as scientific consensus tends to change based on new evidence becoming available and retrofitting stories to reflect that is difficult.
However in TED as in life, stories soon became a way of doing away with the need for well-considered evidence and in recent years TED contributions are driven by form, not content. This produced a class of people who produce narrative for the sake of narrative. In our brave new post-modern world of false equivalency everything is an opinion so that it has become pretty much impossible to separate the woo from actual knowledge.
I agree with much of what you
I agree with much of what you say. Perhaps the challenge for those of us who work with statistical analysis is to come up with more compelling and creative ways to present data so that they can complete emotionally (as well as intellectually) with stories.
Thanks for this post. I take
Thanks for this post. I take a bit of issue with your equation of stories with anecdotes focus group data. It grew to a blog post. Hope it furthers a productive discussion. http://hlanthorn.com/2013/12/21/anecdotes-and-simple-observations-are-da...
Thanks for this thoughtful
Thanks for this thoughtful post, Heather. I certainly agree with your call for more thorough thinking through how to rigorously collect AND ANALYZE qualitative data, and - having organized a lot of original quantitative data collection - I'm not at all blind to the problems with quantitative data. And I certain don't privilege all quantitative analysis: I do mostly RCTs, in which I have significant confidence.
Perhaps one of the challenges is that few researchers (that I know) can effectively speak both the language of quantitative analysis and of qualitative analysis, and so there can be a tendency for each group to dismiss the other. Alternatively, the qualitative research is thrown in to complement the quantitative analysis. (I would say more than dressing up and humanizing: Also to interpret quantitative findings.) Perhaps a more productive, constructive model, would be a research team where you have a PI with expertise in quantitative analysis and a PI with expertise in qualitative analysis. As I look on some of my own recent mixed method experience, it's clear that if we have invested the same resources into our qualitative work as we did in the quantitative work, we may have gotten something much more substantive. But I'm - by training - a quantitative researcher.
I do feel like most of the issues that we have with quantitative data (e.g., people potentially lying, external validity) are just as likely in qualitative data, although I'm happy to be proven incorrect. Unfortunately the Lincoln & Guba reference you link to is Harvard-gated; it looks like a great contribution to the literature.
Thanks much for your response
Thanks much for your response - really like the mixed-PI team idea!
Will work on getting you the article...
Ignoring a good story is
Ignoring a good story is dangerous: We can qualify what constitutes a 'good story' - but insisting that stories be ignored and only statistics be looked at is quite extreme. As you say:
"What do these stories miss? They miss that reality is messy and complicated. These stories miss, perhaps, that only a small fraction of beneficiaries experienced these benefits, or that the program only worked in certain contexts, or that not all handsewn decoration producers are equally effective entrepreneurs"
But this is just bad story-telling. This is the story-telling of a politician or an ideologue and not that of a rigorous researcher. And to be honest, these stories probably do as badly as talking only about statistical average treatment effects.
Any researcher who dismisses stories is being too harsh and if stories = qualitative data, being this dismissive about them just demonstrates a lack of rigour. So let's not make decisions on stories alone. Let's also please not make decisions on statistics alone
Thank you for your thought. I
Thank you for your thought. I agree that these simple narratives are bad qualitative research; this post isn't intended as a critique of qualitative research, even though I draw a couple of examples from focus group work. I DO have a critique of the simple stories that are often used to characterize the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of development projects (or vaccinations). In fact, I would not characterize high-quality qualitative work as "stories" at all: Good qualitative work pulls out common themes across the experiences of many people. But development work is rife with simple narratives that people use to motivate scale-up or to claim success.
But let me reframe my plea: Let's listen to some stories. Let's be moved. Then let's look at some hard data and rigorous analysis (both quantitative AND qualitative) before we make any big decisions.


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Bill Dwyre
3:51 AM EDT, March 14, 2013
On a long day of tennis in the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells, fifth-seeded former Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic was among the casualties in matches that finished during daylight hours. She lost in a three-set battle, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, to Maria Kirilenko of Russia.
Kirilenko, seeded 15th and getting closer to a top-10 ranking, defeated No. 3 Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland in her previous match and said afterward, "I can compete, and as you can see, I can beat them."
Maria Sharapova joined Kirilenko in one semifinal with a late-night victory Wednesday.
Sharapova ousted Italy's Sara Errani, 7-6 (6), 6-2. Sharapova is seeded No. 3 and Errani was seeded No. 6.
On a long day of tennis, Sharapova's match, scheduled to start at 7 p.m., didn't get underway until 10:04 p.m. and finished at 12:05 a.m.
Errani fought the bigger, stronger Sharapova in a hard first set, then hit a shot well beyond the baseline on set point in the tiebreaker. She challenged the call and the Hawkeye camera showed that it missed by two feet.
Sharapova won the title in Indian Wells in 2006 and was runner-up to Victoria Azarenka last year.
Making their way into the men's quarterfinals Wednesday were third-seeded Scotsman Andy Murray, a 7-6 (4), 6-4 winner over Carlos Berlocq of Argentina; unseeded Kevin Anderson of South Africa, getting past 13th-seeded Giles Simon of France, 6-3, 1-6, 6-4; top-seeded Novak Djokovic of Serbia, who beat American Sam Querry, 6-0, 7-6 (6); eighth-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France, who defeated rising Canadian star Milos Raonic, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4; Czech Republic veteran Tomas Berdych, seeded sixth, taking 10th-seeded Frenchman Richard Gasquet, 6-1, 7-5, and seventh-seeded former U.S. Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina. He beat Tommy Haas, of Germany and Los Angeles, 6-1, 6-2.
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