Two Really Cool Websites

The first website is Flip Flop Fly Ball which has some amazing graphics on their site (H/T Rob Neyer). The Green Monster one is pretty awesome, but some of the best have little facts.

• If stolen bases were actually stolen, the stolen base leader for 2008, Colorado Rockies' Willy Taveras, would be charged with a Class 4 Felony under Colorado Law for stealing $6,119.32.
• One (discounted) Legends Box seat at the New Yankee Stadium (the most expensive seat in the league) would buy you 312.5 tickets in MLB's cheapest seat, the bleachers at Coors Field (and there would be just as many homeruns).
• Or, if the Yankees continued to retire numbers at their current pace, they would run out of double digit numbers by the year 2220.

So cool and I recommend you check out that site for more of those (hope to get some more on the blog from time to time).

 

The other website is Newseum which has 807 front pages from 71 countries. The one here is from Taiwan and although I don't know what they're saying, I know they're all about Michael Jackson today. The Calgary Sun has one of the more interesting ones today on Jack-O. The Press of Atlantic City (NJ) and the Opelika-Auburn News (AL) were two papers that gave equal footing to MJ and Farrah Fawcett, who has seemed to have gotten lost in all the Michael Jackson hysteria. And BILD, from Berlin, Germany has Michael Jackson AND boobies (obviously NSFW) on the front page. Non-sports related but pretty cool stuff.