Another sign that baseball season is right around the corner: The Monroe Doctrine emerges from it's off-season hibernation. Since a quarter of the league's owners are new this year, perhaps a brief introduction is appropriate.
"The Monroe Doctrine" was the name of the hard-copy CFCL newsletter produced by Co-Commissioner Rich Bentel back in the late-1980s and early 1990s. In those days, the newsletter was produced on a typewriter, photocopied, and distrbuted via snailmail with the weekly CFCL standings reports. It was named after one-time CFCL owner, Bob Monroe, who was the frequent and regular target of the newsletter's barbs and satires.
After a decade or more of inactivity, The Monroe Doctrine made a triumphant return last year, debuting in online form as part of the weekly CFCL reports posted on the website. With the shift to the blog format for CFCL reporting this year, the Doctrine takes another leap forward and is now a site of its own.
That's right - you'd never have believed it, but Rich has got a blog! The Monroe Doctrine makes its 2008 debut with some commentary on the Hall of Fame voting process. You can read this article, and browse through an entire archive of last year's posts, at the following address:
"The Monroe Doctrine" was the name of the hard-copy CFCL newsletter produced by Co-Commissioner Rich Bentel back in the late-1980s and early 1990s. In those days, the newsletter was produced on a typewriter, photocopied, and distrbuted via snailmail with the weekly CFCL standings reports. It was named after one-time CFCL owner, Bob Monroe, who was the frequent and regular target of the newsletter's barbs and satires.
After a decade or more of inactivity, The Monroe Doctrine made a triumphant return last year, debuting in online form as part of the weekly CFCL reports posted on the website. With the shift to the blog format for CFCL reporting this year, the Doctrine takes another leap forward and is now a site of its own.
That's right - you'd never have believed it, but Rich has got a blog! The Monroe Doctrine makes its 2008 debut with some commentary on the Hall of Fame voting process. You can read this article, and browse through an entire archive of last year's posts, at the following address:
The blog format is nice, since it lends itself nicely to providing feedback and disucssion via the comments. Welcome to the blogosphere, Rich!
The Monroe Doctrine will be available from this site via the links in the upper right, and I'll also post notes here and at the CFCL Internet Headquarters as Rich posts.
