These pics of the greatest Mazzone in Oriole history should hook you.
Read More...Reader Bruce Menard recently clued me in regarding a chapter from fairly recent MLB history that I hadn’t been aware of. It involves a guy named Jay Mazzone, who worked as a batboy for the Orioles in the late 1960s. The unusual thing about Mazzone is that he’d lost his hands when he was two years old after his snow suit caught on fire, so he used metal hooks in lieu of fingers. This certainly made him an unusual sight on ...
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1. Jose Can Still Seabiscuit posted on October 11, 2012 at 09:05 AM # hit 0 | hit 0So far Passbook has underwhelmed. I think it's going to be pretty nifty eventually but right now there just aren't enough vendors on it. Also, I don't know how to find new vendors. The day I set it up it took me to an App Store page that listed all the apps that were compatible but I can no longer find that page. Like I said, it's entirely possible that this is an operator error situation on my part.
Even if that's the case, it's still Apple's fault, cause usability is supposedly their differentiator.
With Passbook some of it is just going to be a timing thing. As companies start to embrace it it will become more popular.
With MLB specifically I'd love to be able to load my tickets on my phone on an individual basis. If it's an "all or nothing" approach that doesn't work for me because I don't go to every single game.
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