Shoutouts to Bleacher Report’s All-Stars

A top 10 villain in baseball history

I want to use this space to send Shoutouts to some of the best stories Bleacher Report publishes.

Publishing more than 600 articles a day, it’s obviously impossible for me to find all the good stuff myself, so I’ve rounded up some spies to help me, and I’m hoping you’ll help me too. If you see a particularly strong piece on Bleacher Report, drop me a line with the link.

My only request: Don’t nominate your own piece. I can’t have hundreds of writers promoting their own work in my in box. I’m sure your work is great! Let someone else tell me about it.

Just to whet the palate, here are a few slideshows from last week that stood out from the crowd.

David Daniels wrote a slideshow of the
25 most important athletes in sports today that laid out his criteria in the first sentence, then offered solid reasoning, with facts and figures, to back up his 25 choices.

April Weiner’s offered a fun history lesson with her review of the 25 greatest performances in Stanley Cup history.

And she avoided the trap of promising “in history” and then delivering only the last 10 or 20 years. Let’s hear it for Newsy Lalonde!

Maybe my favorite slideshow last week was the 50 greatest villains in baseball history by Doug Mead.

I love the way Mead cast a wide net, including not just bad-boy players such as Barry Bonds and Ty Cobb, but also owners, commissioners and movie characters.

It’s a great list, but I have to admit, I can think of a couple of people who are missing.