Video: Kenyan Kids Recreate Game 6 of 1986 World Series

...hat tip to Brad Bortone of Bugs & Cranks

Best Baseball App for iPad is Pennant

A friend told me about the Pennant app for iPad today and I just had to share it. It is a history book of every single action that took place in baseball from 1950's to the present.

The app is an independent project that was put together that makes referencing any hit, win or seasonal occurrence available at your fingertips on your iPad. Pennant documents every game for pretty much any season in baseball's modern era and it does it in a very simple and easy to use interface.

You can see in this image above that I pulled up Game 6 of the 1986 World Series and I can jump to any inning to see who got a hit, made an error, or scored a run. As a blogger, this is a fantastic tool to reference memorable games and season stats. I think it will also be a nice argument settler when people's memories become fuzzy about what actually happened on what date.

The Pennant app is $4.99 in the iPad app store, so it's not your cheapest app, but it will be well worth it for any baseball enthusiast. For more details, read this write up on Pennant from Wired.com.

Gets By Buckner Ringtone

So I'm listening to Boomer & Carton on the way to work and Craig Carton starts talking about how he downloaded the 1986 "Gets by Buckner" ringtone off of Mets.com. The only thing is it's the Vin Scully call from TV not the Bob Murphy call from WFAN. He asked why he couldn't get the Bob Murphy call.

I called up the station and mentioned that since the Mets site is owned by MLB, they are only offerring the official MLB version of the call. The Bob Murphy call was on WFAN, an official team radio station, so MLB uses their official broadcast of the call to sell on their website.

I totally understand Craig Carton's beef with this and as a Mets Lifer of course we want the Bob Murphy call. The Vin Scully call of that play is great, but come on. You can't compete with the Murph.

So I figured it was my duty to all Mets Lifers to offer you an MP3 version of the 1986 Mets "Gets by Buckner" call by Bob Murphy. Craig Carton, if you still want the Bob Murphy version of the ringtone, here it is.

Click here to download the Bob Murphy call of the "Gets By Buckner" play from Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.