Jon Weisman
@jonweisman.bsky.social
I work with the very nice people at the Dodgers. Author of Dodger books, with stops at LACMA, Variety and Showtime. Check out my new novel, The Catch! http://bit.ly/the-catch-kindle
Freedom does not bestow the right to use backward apostrophes.
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Freedom does not bestow the right to use backward apostrophes.
One day more.
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One Day More!
YouTube video by Johnny Storm
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November 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
One day more.
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The Dodgers won the entire 1963 World Series in eight hours and 17 minutes.
October 28, 2025 at 6:29 AM
The Dodgers won the entire 1963 World Series in eight hours and 17 minutes.
“GameDay seems to be broke. It keeps on saying the Dodger pitcher is hitting a home run.”
Diehards will understand.
Diehards will understand.
October 18, 2025 at 6:44 AM
“GameDay seems to be broke. It keeps on saying the Dodger pitcher is hitting a home run.”
Diehards will understand.
Diehards will understand.
This game is going so long, it’s going to be followed by Murder ……………. She Wrote, except on the West Coast.
October 11, 2025 at 4:10 AM
This game is going so long, it’s going to be followed by Murder ……………. She Wrote, except on the West Coast.
A low-key pleasure for me is the Geico ad where the guy says "I think I like sports now" in this very sweet way, only to get cut off -- and it's clear he'll never speak of that topic again.
October 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
A low-key pleasure for me is the Geico ad where the guy says "I think I like sports now" in this very sweet way, only to get cut off -- and it's clear he'll never speak of that topic again.
You’ve never seen cleaner dirt.
September 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
You’ve never seen cleaner dirt.
Clayton Kershaw threw 43,216 pitches in his 18 regular seasons. Stretched end to end, he threw 495 miles of baseball.
September 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Clayton Kershaw threw 43,216 pitches in his 18 regular seasons. Stretched end to end, he threw 495 miles of baseball.
This story just about made me cry. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...
Opinion | I Once Talked to Robert Redford About What Happens When We Die
www.nytimes.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
This story just about made me cry. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...
Ever since I saw Butch and Sundance for the first of about 20 times, Robert Redford has been one of my all-time actors. But for my mom, who went to junior high with him, and my father, who was Chairman of the Board of the Sundance Institute, he was a close friend for decades. This is a painful loss.
September 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Ever since I saw Butch and Sundance for the first of about 20 times, Robert Redford has been one of my all-time actors. But for my mom, who went to junior high with him, and my father, who was Chairman of the Board of the Sundance Institute, he was a close friend for decades. This is a painful loss.
This new story on the old Kerserzer rookie matchup is so good. www.nytimes.com/athletic/653...
Clayton Kershaw, Max Scherzer and a rookie-year meeting for the history books
One day in September, 17 years ago, two future Hall of Famers replaced two future Hall of Famers in a unique bit of baseball lore.
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August 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This new story on the old Kerserzer rookie matchup is so good. www.nytimes.com/athletic/653...
I rewatched Normal People this week, and good lord was that show amazing.
July 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I rewatched Normal People this week, and good lord was that show amazing.
There have been 1,313 players who have appeared in an MLB game this year, from Andrew Abbott to Yosver Zulueta. Alphabetically, All-Star Game starting pitchers Paul Skenes (1,073) and Tarik Skubal (1,074) are next to each other.
stathead.com/tiny/3nsc7
(Also, Abbott and Zulueta are both Reds.)
stathead.com/tiny/3nsc7
(Also, Abbott and Zulueta are both Reds.)
July 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
There have been 1,313 players who have appeared in an MLB game this year, from Andrew Abbott to Yosver Zulueta. Alphabetically, All-Star Game starting pitchers Paul Skenes (1,073) and Tarik Skubal (1,074) are next to each other.
stathead.com/tiny/3nsc7
(Also, Abbott and Zulueta are both Reds.)
stathead.com/tiny/3nsc7
(Also, Abbott and Zulueta are both Reds.)
Ah, sweet irony. @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Ah, sweet irony. @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
Fifty years ago, thanks to family friend Roy Neal (NBC aerospace correspondent), I was lucky enough to be at Johnson Space Center Mission Control to witness the end of the Apolloe-Soyuz mission. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/s...
A Handshake in Orbit 50 Years Ago Transformed the Space Race
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July 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Fifty years ago, thanks to family friend Roy Neal (NBC aerospace correspondent), I was lucky enough to be at Johnson Space Center Mission Control to witness the end of the Apolloe-Soyuz mission. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/s...
The incredible life and tragic death of the ‘Queen of Volleyball’
The incredible life and tragic death of the ‘Queen of Volleyball’
Flo Hyman, a women’s sports pioneer who rose to stardom at the 1984 Olympics, was felled by Marfan syndrome while playing in Japan two years later.
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July 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The incredible life and tragic death of the ‘Queen of Volleyball’
Squid Game Baby is like no other baby.
July 11, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Squid Game Baby is like no other baby.
From the Los Angeles Times - June 28, 1965.
Just who are the Beach Boys? Don’t ask the teenagers around your domicile or you’ll rate a contemptuous look. It would be like inquiring of the average adult, “Who’s Bing Crosby, Perry Como or Frank Sinatra?”
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Just who are the Beach Boys? Don’t ask the teenagers around your domicile or you’ll rate a contemptuous look. It would be like inquiring of the average adult, “Who’s Bing Crosby, Perry Como or Frank Sinatra?”
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Beach Boys ride crest of teen craze
In this 1965 interview — his first with the Los Angeles Times — Brian Wilson already showed a remarkably prescient grasp of the lifelong hold his music would have on fans.
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June 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
From the Los Angeles Times - June 28, 1965.
Just who are the Beach Boys? Don’t ask the teenagers around your domicile or you’ll rate a contemptuous look. It would be like inquiring of the average adult, “Who’s Bing Crosby, Perry Como or Frank Sinatra?”
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Just who are the Beach Boys? Don’t ask the teenagers around your domicile or you’ll rate a contemptuous look. It would be like inquiring of the average adult, “Who’s Bing Crosby, Perry Como or Frank Sinatra?”
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
With the help of family, I have determined the first Dodger game I can *remember* going to. Accoring to two sources, I called for Davey Lopes to hit a leadoff home run - and he did!
www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LA...
www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LA...
June 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
With the help of family, I have determined the first Dodger game I can *remember* going to. Accoring to two sources, I called for Davey Lopes to hit a leadoff home run - and he did!
www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LA...
www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LA...
This is an excellent and low-key important story.
My essay about the brilliant, pioneering & shockingly forgotten showrunner-pioneer Gertrude Berg, who invented the family sitcom (pre-Lucy!), then got eaten by the blacklist in the 1950s — a story with disturbing modern parallels
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Forgotten Inventor of the Sitcom
Gertrude Berg’s “The Goldbergs” was a bold, beloved portrait of a Jewish family. Then the blacklist obliterated her legacy.
www.newyorker.com
June 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is an excellent and low-key important story.
TCM is bringing it today.
June 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
TCM is bringing it today.
Summing up Margaret Houlihan as "libido-driven" utterly misses who the character was.
May 31, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Summing up Margaret Houlihan as "libido-driven" utterly misses who the character was.
There have been 14 NBA playoff games this year decided by 25 points or more. That's about one of every five games.
Ten playoff games have been decided by 30 points or more.
Ten playoff games have been decided by 30 points or more.
May 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
There have been 14 NBA playoff games this year decided by 25 points or more. That's about one of every five games.
Ten playoff games have been decided by 30 points or more.
Ten playoff games have been decided by 30 points or more.
Harrison Tyler, the grandson of 10th President John Tyler, has died, 163 years after his grandfather died and 235 years after his grandfather was born. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Harrison Tyler, preservationist and grandson of 10th president, dies at 96
He restored a Civil War fort and the Virginia home of his grandfather President John Tyler, who served from 1841 to 1845.
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May 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Harrison Tyler, the grandson of 10th President John Tyler, has died, 163 years after his grandfather died and 235 years after his grandfather was born. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...