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Over the past 5 or so years the baseball blogosphere has really evolved. Today, you look everywhere and everyone has a blog of some sort. Some of players now have blogs, the (Tampa Bay) heckler has a blog, even the print media have blogs . Let me take you back to an earlier time when the baseball bloggers were few and far between. However, there was one baseball blogger, who may have started it all. This person was lucky enough to grab the baseballblog name over on blogspot. You tuned into his blog monday thru friday and he did not disappoint. He was just a college kid that knew so much about baseball and analysis. It seemed somehow he found the time to perform extensive research in his blog posts that made his case that he was trying to prove seem overwhelming. If some writer wrote something stupid, he found a way to crush them with his keyboard and his thought out words. Take for example, one day in 2003 that the Atlanta columnist Terrence Moore made the mistake of saying something dumb about Andruw Jones:

Andruw Jones already is the greatest center fielder of all-time, and I don’t give a Willie Mays what anybody else thinks.”

The baseballblog writer who went by the name of Aaron just let him have it. Now, looking back at this feature about five years after he wrote it, the blogger was so right and worth the read. Well, this blogger. His name is Aaron Gleeman who would go on to found The Hardball Times. Over at THT, you did not get the same edge you did at Aarons’s Baseball Blog. I always thought this college student Aaron would go on to be a world famous sports writer at some big newspaper or at Sports Illustrated. He did make the big time as a writer at Rotoworld. But, I miss that sharp and unique writing from AaronGleeman that we were fortunate enough to read in those early days. For all those blogs out there now, we learned how to blog by reading Aaron’s early work.