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One more baseball cover

St. Petersburg Times' preview cover featuring a great photo of B.J. Upton.

PDF: Download MLB_03302008_1_MLB_P.pdf

Promotion and a promo

Industry news: Big congrats to Jon Fisch, promoted to ASE for Presentation at The Seattle Times. Since joining the paper last year, Fisch has done a great job of coming up with original ideas and fostering communication.

Get the scoop via Charles Apple's blog.

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Battlestar Galactica fans know tonight is BIG! The show returns!

If you're a super nerd, you might be interested in some frakkin posters from ThinkGeek.com.

This "How to Spot a Cylon" poster is $20.
There is also a series of propaganda-style posters for $30.

Flashing leather in Denver

Here's a look at a baseball section in last Sunday's Denver Post. The focus was on players and their gloves.

Ingrid Muller worked on the cover and double truck, which tells stories of prep players, instructional league players and adult players.

Severiano Galván worked on this infographic page on gloves.

Download DenverPost_Gloves.pdf

Baseball 2008

Time for baseball, thank god, because my tournament picks are in the toilet.

There's a new ballpark in Washington.

Above, The Washington Times (Harrison Goodman).
Below, The Washington Post (Chris Rukan).

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Things get very "Hollow Man" at the Kansas City Star(.)
(Noah Musser, Lynn Nguyen and Alan Burchardt)

The Boston Globe focuses on managers (Brian Gross).

Seattle Times (me and Heather McKinnon) and South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Andrea Vigil and Paul Wallen).

Cleveland Plain Dealer (Ryan Powell) and Sarasota (Jennifer Borreson).

The LA Times did a section on the Dodgers' 50th anniversary in Los Angeles. Check out the online components here.

A few more:

• Darth Vader in Omaha (Tim Parks)
• Sweet Cabrera DT in Detroit (Ryan Ford)
• Shades of gray in Phoenix (Luke Knox)
• Fishing for the Padres at North County Times

Stop by tomorrow for a look at The Denver Post baseball section - "Glove, American Style" (or at least that was my fave headline).