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Greg Spira

Edgy MD Dec 29 2011 02:01 PM

Sad news in the passing of baseball analyst and Baseball Prospectus contibutor Greg Spira. He won me when I realized that he outlined the "relative age effect" six months before super celebrity big-brain Malcolm Gladwell documented it in Outliers. He didn't discover it or anything, but still, he identified it as a thing before it became a thing.

G-Fafif Dec 29 2011 02:09 PM Re: Greg Spira

Very decent sort. Didn't know him well but we went to a few games together through the courtesy of mutual friend Matthew Silverman, and he was good company. Thorough researcher, as I learned when he wanted to touch base via phone one day for a Mets article he was doing and we wound up talking for close to three hours...three very enjoyable hours. His Miracle Has Landed piece carries a bit more poignancy now. Obviously a terrible, terrible shame.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 29 2011 02:44 PM Re: Greg Spira

I liked Greg a lot. Not just knowing him from baseball but one of the only people I knew who cared about what I do in my real job, he would call just to ask about supermarkets. Met him once to play mini golf at randalls island, and stood thru a monsoon rain delay at cf last summer. As a fan he was dour and very knowledgeable. He'd had health problems for as long as I knew him, but hadn't realized he was so bad.

Edgy MD Dec 30 2011 06:51 AM Re: Greg Spira

Hadn't known you both knew him so well. Now I'm doubly sorry. Triply.

Edgy MD Jan 09 2012 02:52 PM Re: Greg Spira

Tribute to Greg at MLB.com.