Hello 👋 I’m Tom Stone.
Welcome to Now Taking the Field, a baseball email newsletter and blog that includes the in-season daily feature, The Baseball Buffet.
I’ve had a successful 25+ year career in corporate HR and learning and development, but have also been a long-time freelance baseball analyst and writer. I welcome connections on href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomrstone/">LinkedIn.
After writing for several years at a previous personal blog and href="https://seamheads.com/">Seamheads.com, I finally published my first baseball book with ACTA Sports in early 2019: Now Taking the Field: Baseball’s All-Time Dream Teams for All 30 Franchises (see the book also on href="https://www.amazon.com/Now-Taking-Field-Baseballs-Franchises/dp/0879466669">Amazon). I plan to write several more baseball books, but for now this email newsletter and blog is my primary baseball writing outlet.
The Baseball Buffet
Starting with the 2025 season, I significantly expanded my newsletter writing with a new, daily series called The Baseball Buffet. The goal is to provide the best daily dose of relevant baseball info in a smart-brevity format: headers, short bullets, getting to the point, with quick analysis and insights. Think of it like what baseball fans of a certain age would look forward to in their morning newspaper’s sports section each day! Included in each issue will be sections covering:
My Other Baseball Writing
Beyond the daily Baseball Buffet series, if you are new to my work at Now Taking the Field, consider taking a look at the archive for some of what you’ve missed, such as:
- All-Time Dream Teams for players born in each of the href="https://nowtakingthefield.beehiiv.com/archive?tags=US+State+Dream+Teams">50 US States, as well as various countries
- All-Time Dream Teams for players born in each of the href="https://nowtakingthefield.beehiiv.com/archive?tags=Month+Dream+Teams">12 months
- Unique player profiles called href="https://nowtakingthefield.beehiiv.com/archive?tags=Player+Profiles">“Best, Worst, Outliers, and Oddities”, on players such as Rickey Henderson, Dave Parker, Brooks Robinson, Joey Votto, Gaylord Perry, and more to come
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