I want to give praise to Flip Flop Fly Ball, one of my all-time favorite websites. The site’s creator, Craig Robinson, combines baseball and informational graphics in a really fun and interesting way.
From Robinson:
A love of baseball plus a love of visual representations equals Flip Flop Fly Ball.
Essentially, this site is what I’d have been doing when I was 12 years old had the Internet and Photoshop been available to me in the eighties. And had I grown up in the States. As it was, I grew up in England. And I came to baseball in my thirties whilst on a business trip to New York. I went to see the Yankees play the Twins. And that was it, really.
My name is Craig Robinson. Not the guy in Hot Tub Time Machine. Not President Obama’s brother-in-law. And not the short stop who played for the Braves, Giants, and Phillies in the 1970s, either. I am a bearded, myopic, Englishman who (for the time being, at least) lives in Mexico City.
I’ve never met the man, but he seems like a helluva guy. And way, way more ambitious and motivated than the rest of us.
For instance: See that image to the right?
It’s a screen grab of every infographic Robinson has made for Flip Flop Fly Ball. I can’t say that I’ve looked at each and every one, but some of my favorites include “Welcome to Bradenia” and “The Age of the Yankees Roster.”
Robinson also has a lot of other kooky baseball- and graphics-related projects.
I highly recommend checking out his work if you have two or three days to kill next week.
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