Hi friends. Here's how I see baseball on this Thursday, May 6.John Means went from being a boy nobody wanted after graduating high school to hurling the first no-hitter by an Oriole since jim Palmerdid it in 1969. With 6 runs scored by the O's, Means saw 27 and retired them ...

Hi friends. Here's how I see baseball on this Wednesday, May 5. There hadn't been a minor league baseball game since September of 2019. Now, though diminished and deformed, like the prodigal son of old, minor league baseball is back. 40 teams are gone, and they'll be ...

  Hi all.  Here’s how I see baseball on this Wednesday, February 3.  You won’t know this man’s name, so you may well ask why I write his obituary in a forum where I have said farewell to Berra, Kaline, Aaron and other Hall of Famers.  This time, I’m saying good-bye to a ...

  Hi friends.  Here’s how I see baseball on this Saturday morning, January 23.  The baseball world lost its 10th Hall of Famer in 9 months when Henry Aaron passed away yesterday morning, at the age of 86. This has been an unprecedented series of losses for the sport and its fans.      ...

Hi all. Here's how I see baseballon this Wednesday, January 20, 2021. As the nation inaugurates a new president, and as the Blue Jays prepare to welcome George Springer into the fold, it has become necessary to writeyet another obituary for a lost Hall of Famer. Former outstanding pitcherand commentator ...

  Hi friends.  Here’s how I see baseball on this Friday, January 8.  I might say “Here we go again.”  7 Hall of Famers died in 2020, and one has passed away as 2021 dawns.  Former Dodgers’ manager Tommy Lasorda died last night.     Nobody would remember Lasorda, a native of Norristown, PA ...

  There’s a very grim new meaning for the term “Magnificent 7” in 2020, at least if you’re a baseball fan. The original “Magnificent 7” was a 1960 Western movie that later migrated to TV.  The movie was remade in 2016.  The earlier movie had a fairly memorable theme for a few decades. ...

Hi friends. Here's how I see baseball on this Thursday, December 3. Since 1994, AA baseball has been played just outside Trenton, New Jersey. At first, the Tigers played there for a year before moving their AA operation to Jacksonville. Then the Red Sox took over until they could ...

Hi all. Here's how I see baseball as we approach the 2020 World Series. As long as this year's playoffs have gone on, the question isn't "Who let the dogs out," as it was 20 years ago. The question is, "Who has the most left?" The series, destined to ...

Hi friends. Here's how I see baseball on this Thursday, October 1. Nothing has been normal about the year 2020 or its baseball season, but two of yesterday's 8 games brought back all that ever was great about this game. The Braves and Reds locked horns in an old-fashioned pitching ...