It’s hard to believe that it’s been 48 years since Henry Aaron hit his 714th home run at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, off the Reds’ Jack Billingham. Seems like it was about five minutes ago. […]
Thrown Out at Home – Claremont Review of Books
Bob Gibson lost his battle with pancreatic cancer Friday. One of baseball’s greatest pitchers and fiercest competitors is gone. He was unrelenting, unapologetic, mean, and fabulous on the field. There was not an ounce of […]
For 10 years, a group of college friends met at Randol Mill Park in Arlington, Texas to throw batting practice to each other. We did this at least once a year, and in the early […]
March 3, 2020 For those of you who are still hung up about stealing sings, here’s a different perspective, courtesy Larry Dierker and Birdie Tebbetts. [getty src=”659964510″ width=”400″ height=”594″ tld=”com”] Ed Bailey (L) and Birdie […]
Spring training has begun at last, and even that joyous occasion has been marred by the constant bleating and whining by so many about the Astros “cheating” their way to victory: “Altuve booed and hit […]
How dumb is dumb? Well, it gets dumber all the time. Ali Thanawalla has a bylined story on NBC Sports Bay Area, via Andrew Baggarly, that reveals longtime Giants coach Ron Wotus is no longer […]
Some things — plenty of them, actually — are more important than baseball. This is one of them. The breakfast bar at Frisch’s Big Boy is one of my favorite places. It’s not exactly doctor-approved, […]
August 1, 2019 I just read an article on Larry Brown Sports that related Bob Gibson’s thoughts about hitters who crowd the plate (“it’s your plate, not his!”) and the Cubs’ Anthony Rizzo in particular. […]
As a six-year old living in Baltimore, the Orioles were the first baseball team I followed. The 1961 season was the first one where I started paying attention to the games. And what a year […]
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