Fra paolo

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fra paolo has been posting on Baseball Primer/Baseball Think Factory since 2002, having found the site in 2001, although it took him a while to settle on the nickname. He was born in a border city - Detroit - has American and Canadian relations, but couldn't decide which of those countries to live in so moved to London, England, as a compromise in 1982. (His mother was born in Hampshire and remains proudly English.) However, in September, 2008, he went to Waterloo, Ontario, to Wilfrid Laurier University, to study for an M.A. in History,with no plans to return to London.

He used to have an interest, intermittently acted upon, in applying sabermetric methods to cricket statistics; but the absence of anything resembling Retrosheet for cricket severly hampered his efforts. Cricketing Sabermetrics stands mute testimony to this interest.

He was a fan of the hometown Tigers until 1973, when he began to neglect them owing to his objection to the designated-hitter rule. (Even at the age of 12 he was a traditionalist.) He was a fan of the Expos, but can't really be called a fan of the Nationals, since the original location of the franchise in Montreal was a key part of its appeal. After the departure of the Expos at the end of 2004, he has wandered teamless in the wilderness. He follows the Tigers most closely, getting very excited in 2006. He feels intermittent attachments to the Blue Jays (whose first game he listened to via a radio station in Sarnia) and Reds (whom he used to listen to on WLW, the signal of which reached Detroit). His sympathies are also to some extent defined by his antipathies towards the Yankees, the Bewigged Satan and Jerry Reinsdorf.

He used to work in book and magazine publishing. He's also written some books about military history. His last project was published with the Imperial War Museum logo on it, which is pretty darn good. He's now hoping to move into academia, teaching history.

He is the only Primate known to be interested in early music (Bach and before, especially before). He used to sing such stuff at 11.30 AM mass at St Mary’s Church, Cadogan Street, Chelsea; he was the thinnest guy with the least hair in the bass section.

Gran jornada volh far per bon ostal ne lonc servir per recebre gen do. - Peire Vidal

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