Hi all. With no baseball to report on, I'm just glad not to be writing an obituary for Vin Scully. The Dodgers' legend was released from a hospital after falling on his head one day last week. There's an obituary to be written just the same. It's not a ...

Hi friends. While I Didn't Start This Blog to Write the Obits, it is once more necessary for me to write one. It was just hard luck that Yogi Berra passed on within weeks of the first edition of this blog. In the years since, I've said goodbye to such men ...

Hi friends. For the second time in a couple of weeks, I would use a black border on this blog if I had one. Last month it was the Toy Cannon, Jimmy Wynn. With this site temporarily unavailable then, Only my legion of Facebook followers read about his passing. ...

Hi friends. After a long silence, this site is back! When the majors andm inors return, I'll be here to write their new stories. The best thing to happen since this site went down was an agreement between the players and the owners not_ to strike in 2021. That was my ...

Hi all. Here's how I see baseball on this Thursday, January 2. Two days ago, I found out that Don Larsen had been put in hospice. Shortly after 9 last night, I was informed the oldest living man to pitch a perfect game had passed away at age 90. ...

Hi friends. Here's how I see baseball on this Friday, the 13th. It's been an interesting week. Just for starters, Ken "Hawk" Harrelson was chosen to receive the Ford C. Frick award in Cooperstown next summer. To add to the fun, both New York teams made moves to buttress ...

 Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on Wednesday, December 4.  As I write this just after 4 PM in the east, today has featured more moving pitchers than you'll see in a multiplex! lol  Zach Wheeler is no longer a Met, the former Oriole Dylan Bundy is heading across the continent while Cole Hamels comes east and ...

  In the last century and a half, thieves were made into folk heroes--the James Brothers, (Frank and Jesse), Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd to name just a few. Songs were written about all of the above. In our century, the most notorious thieves belong to baseball teams. Rather than stealing ...

  That time of year has come around again. 8 men have been nominated. Only one will carry off the Ford C. Frick award for excellence in baseball broadcasting. The first time the award was granted, it went to both Mel Allen and Red Barber in 1978. Two score years ...

 Hi all.  While the Yankees have extended closer Aroldis Chapman and told Juan Encarnacion to go peddle his papers, I wanted to write a theme about a player I read about as a boy in amazement.  I had no way of knowing I would meet him twice late in his life, and if possible come ...