This is the kind of event that should have stopped the presses. Facebook and Twitter should be blowing up with this. I found out from an unusual source, a man who doesn't care a fig for baseball. I was astonished not to have seen the news about Albert Pujols tying Willie ...

Hi friends. Here's how I see baseball on this Sunday, September 13. A quiet Sunday suddenly became interesting when I got the word. The Cubs' Alec Mills had a no-hitter on through 7 innings. I signed on in time for the last of the 8th. It was ...

Hi all. It doesn't seem fair that, so soon after writing hail and farewell to Tom Seaver, another Hall of Famer should join the angels. Lou Brock did so yesterday, at age 81. Nothing happens for the first time twice. 1971 was my year of discovery, the year ...

Hi all. Anybody here ever felt their duty was to lift a 500-pound concrete block with their bare hands? Friends, that's the job I've been putting off since I heard that Tom Seaver had passed away. He left this world Monday morning after a long illness, though the word wasn't released ...

The White Sox pitcher Lucas Giolito has probably taken some ribbing because his last name sounds like the Italian or Spanish word for "ice cream"-gelado or helado. Early in his career, his pitches were meatballs and his ERA was over 6.0. Last night, he became "The Emperror of Ice Cream." A ...

Hi friends. Here's how I see baseball on this Saturday, August 8. If you followed last night's game between the Tigers and Pirates in Pittsburgh via Twitter, you could be forgiven for thinking whoever was tweeting had been into the Iron City. If you've never been to Pittsburgh, I.C. is a ...

Hi friends. As this most unusual season gets off to an uneven start, like a car which can't quite get itself out of neutral, a name from the game's past is in the news because of his death. You mostly know the name of John McNamara as the manager of ...

Hi friends. Last summer, I wrote a 10-part series of themes on great All-Star games. Some were by request, some were games of my own choosing. One went unrequested at that time, so no theme for it has been written. For the benefit of members of my ...

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 ...