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Developed by four former Major League Baseball employees, Coffee & Box Scores delivers a unique brand of baseball content, where the present connects to the past in a celebratory, fun and thought-provoking style.  Producing daily notes, essays and artwork, Coffee & Box Scores is made for baseball fans seeking creative and stimulating content.

Game Notes

Game Notes

Game Notes – 07/10/2025

Roger Schlueter | Friday, July 11, 2025 close
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In 1982, Expos teammates Andre Dawson and Al Oliver each finished the year with 67 extra-base hits.  The spotlight hasn’t been swiveled in their direction for any pure, numerical reason, but for where that number stood in relation to all the other extra-base hit figures produced by the NL’s batsmen:  […]

Game Notes

Game Notes – 07/09/2025

Roger Schlueter | Thursday, July 10, 2025 close
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Even with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig and Jimmie Foxx in its corner, the AL has played second fiddle to its older sibling when it comes to producing players to reach 400 total bases in a season, with the Junior Circuit having 12 to the NL’s 18.  From 1921 (when […]

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Game Notes – 07/08/2025

Roger Schlueter | Wednesday, July 9, 2025 close
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Since the NL and AL started tussling in the Midsummer Classic, 30 pitchers have been able to take a breath at the pause to the season and pridefully point to already owning at least 15 wins.  Bob Feller was the first to have this chance, way back in 1941 when […]

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Game Notes – 07/07/2025

Roger Schlueter | Tuesday, July 8, 2025 close
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Baseball Reference identifies 26 players as having a breadth and volume of skills and performance to have amassed – by the time all was said and done – at least 50.0 offensive WAR (oWAR) and at least 15.0 defensive WAR (dWAR).  There are some inner, inner-circle all-timers here, some “If […]

Recollections

Recollections

(Rein)stating the Obvious

Tim Ott | Sunday, May 18, 2025 close
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On Christmas mornings in the Ott household in the early 1980s, it was a common occurrence for me to unwrap the obviously book-shaped gift and see some form of the baseball record book staring back at me.   These volumes became my companion through the long winter months, and while […]

Recollections

Too Hot to Handle

Tim Ott | Wednesday, April 30, 2025 close
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With the month of April (already!) drawing to a close and the noise of small sample sizes fading into the background, it’s a good time to take stock of the Major League leaderboards and note the players who have excelled to this point of the season.   Some, like Aaron […]

Recollections

When Spring Bloomed in the Spa City

Tim Ott | Saturday, March 1, 2025 close
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With the cold weather still lingering in many parts of the country, winter-weary baseball fans can take comfort in knowing that the action ramping up across ballparks in Florida and Arizona heralds the arrival of spring.   But while the Grapefruit and Cactus League games have been an annual component […]

Recollections

The Boys of Winter

Tim Ott | Tuesday, February 4, 2025 close
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There’s a wonderful old commercial for Starting Lineup sports figures that features an unseen singer waxing about his childhood dream of becoming a big league baseball player, ending with the line, “And summer would go on forever.”   Coincidentally, around that time summer did linger past its usual expiration date – […]

Connections

Connections

Royalty

Roger Schlueter | Saturday, July 5, 2025 close
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120 years ago, a Reds center fielder named Cy Seymour emblazoned his 10th Major League season with a line so far beyond anything he’d accomplished before and anything he’d do in his final six years after this pinnacle:  a startling, awe-inspiring mountain flanked by short, rolling hills. In 1905, left-handed […]

Connections

Two Pair

Roger Schlueter | Saturday, June 28, 2025 close
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Yes, pace can be a dangerous navigator, a “The sign is pointing askew” proposition – blindly follow the arrow’s point toward the extrapolated destination and all sorts of problematic surprises might await, perhaps camouflaged by regressions to the mean or hiding behind rocky slumps or lying among Injured List stints.  […]

Connections

Clayton, the Giant(s) Slayer

Roger Schlueter | Saturday, June 21, 2025 close
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One week ago, Dodgers southpaw Clayton Kershaw layered in another rewrite to his work-in-progress Hall of Fame plaque – one more victory to expand his difference between career wins and losses to a plus 120; five more strikeouts to creep within a dozen punchouts of an even 3,000; yet another […]

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Hello, Wilson

Roger Schlueter | Saturday, June 14, 2025 close
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The Aaron Judge carnival of wonders, the thumping by Cal Raleigh and Kyle Schwarber, the walloping and run-scoring fusillade from Shohei Ohtani.  In a sense, the 2025 campaign has been largely consumed with the bombers, whether their explosions have been confined to four-baggers or just an integral part of the […]