Fra paolo
From Wiki Gonzalez
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 become a postgraduate student of history. He is still there, working on a PhD.
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 testimony to this interest. He periodically tries to revive his interest at Sabermetric Cricket.
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. Angry about the abusive attitude of some Washington baseball fans towards the miserable fans of Montréal baseball, he took a long time to follow the franchise to D.C., but in the end the Nationals won him over, especially after they got rid of Jim Bowden. He even blogs about the Nationals, when he can. He remains a fan of the Tigers for American League purposes.
He used to work in book and magazine publishing. He's also written some books about military history. His last project was published in association with the Imperial War Museum, which is pretty darn good. He's now hoping to move into academia, teaching history.
He is one of a very few Primates 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
Visit his blog, De Civitate Sabermetricarum, for the latest info.
