Sometimes people write better than us. Each Thursday WoW gives you our favorite baseball links we've come across.- OMDQ goes in search of Wade Boggs at a Hannaford Supermarket in Nashua and ends up meeting the guy in the strangest of circumstances. No, not in the frozen pizza section. Bus Leagues Baseball.
- Sheryl Crow reminisces about meeting Willie McGee when she was a college student back in nineteen-dickety-five. This was before the advent of television, of course, and Sheryl had never met an African-American before. I'm implying that they're both old, do you get it? Riverfront Times.
- Tommy Craggs gives Tom Verducci the business and dregs up all of Verducci's old proclamations about the new, natural face of steroid-free baseball. Less than two years ago, it was Alex Rodriguez. That's some great reportin' there, boys. Deadspin.
- Kara Kovalchik keeps score of the good stuff that goes down behind the scenes at the ballpark. Did you know a good beer vendor can make up to $200 a game by helping jamooks get drunk? Thanks, beer guy! mental floss.
- Wezen-ball unearths a document from 1980 in which Commissioner Bowie Kuhn advocates for a "wild card DH". The concept is so outré I can't even begin to explain it to you; I'm glad the idea never happened. Tethering fans to their seats with wristbands, that's a concept I can get behind. wezen-ball.com.
- Babbo pastry chef Gina DePalma brings us everything you've always wanted to know about speck but were afraid to ask. Serious Eats.
The "wild card DH" is what Mark Sanford called his Argentine girlfriend.