Peter Abraham

If you're interested in good sportswriting (mostly about the Mets), Abraham's is a name you need to know.

He writes for the Journal News. Here are some of my recent favorites, if you haven't been reading:

Wigginton Still Humble (link) - a great look at the personality of our 3b.

Diaz Wants a Bat (link) - some words with and about one of our best hitting prospects.

In addition to writing chops, Peter also has good taste. Here's a link to his latest article. This one's about the Yankees and Mets blogosphere, and offers a little information about some of the bloggers' motivations and styles. Since Kyle wasn't interviewed for the story, I thought I'd let you know that he's twelve, a runaway, and taught himself to read by sneaking furtive glances at the labels on liquor bottles his hobo adoptive father would throw at him. His is a great and triumphant story and I could not begin to relate the innumerable heartwarming anecdotes, like how he found out that cats were indeed not female dogs, or the time baseball saved his life when he boiled one in a pot of his own tears and survived for months on the soup.

I'll close out this batch of sophomoric prattle by encouraging you to check out Peter's work and the blogs in his latest article. If you're coming here for the first time because of the story, thanks for stopping by. If you've got an opinion about something we've written, feel free to drop us a line. As Kyle would say, like an unguarded boxcar, we're always open.