It’s a 3-story building in a small village some 200 miles north of New York City. Even with a GPS, you make so many turns on county roads, you may wonder if your GPS is throwing curve balls. Since 1939, it’s been a destination for the best baseball players, managers, writers, broadcasters and generations ...
Hello again … Hello … Hello?
A new baseball season opens tomorrow. I hope 2023 will give me material to write about and bring this blog back after a prolonged silence. During that time, I began a podcast called "The Baseball Lifer." A new episode comes out every Frida and you can get it wherever you get ...
Honor Among Thieves: Maury Wills Dead at 89
Honor Among Thieves: Maury Wills Dead at 89 We’ve always heard there is no honor among thieves. There may be few exceptions. One of those exceptionally honorable thieves, a man few catchers could stop if he meant to steal second was Maury Wills, who passed away on September 19 at age 89. When Maurice ...
How Do You Say Good-bye to an Icon? Vin Scully Passes Away at 94
This was a piece I knew would have to be written one day, but I’m probably not the only writer who wasn’t prepared to write it just now. It became inevitable last night when, right before bedtime I read that Vin Scully had passed away, at age 94. He spent 67 of ...
Earth Only had one Angell; Roger Angell Called to a Higher League at 101
It isn’t always wise to open up Facebook. It’s bad enough that you can open it and find something ridiculously stupid. That’s bad enough. Last night, in the midst of the NCAA Division 3 baseball regionals, I opened Facebook … and found my favorite baseball writer of them all, Roger ...
After a Wasted Winter, we got … nothing
Hi friends. Here's how I see basebal lon this Friday, April 8. Yes, I'm back after a prolonged absence following the last World Series. We fans survived a 99-day lockout. The people who work at spring training ball parks had to survive a shortened spring training-the one month out ...
Sports 2021-The Year in Review as I See It
Sports As we stumble across the finish line for the year 2021, I’m sure some of us are wondering if we’re stuck in the movie “Groundhog Day,” where Bill Murray had to live the same day over and over until he figured out how to be a better person. As 2021 ends, ...
You Don’t Know Me; Cleveland’s Graney is 2022 Ford Frick Winner
It happens every December, and at the end of July or the beginning of August, a new Ford Frick award winner takes his place in Cooperstown. Under the relatively new rules, this year was the year for a pioneer to be enshrined. The former voice of the Indians, Jack Graney was ...
Braves’ Great Win Comes at a Cruel Price; Morton’s Broken Leg Puts Series in Doubt
Hi friends. Here’s how I see baseball on this Wednesday, October 27, the day after game 1 of the World Series. The third inning of last night’s game was, with a nod to Mr. Dickens, the best of times and the worst of times. The top half provided the offensive push that led ...
An End to Half a Century of Pain; Ray Fosse Dead at 74
Hi friends. Here’s how I see baseball on this Thursday, October 14, the morning of game 5 of the NLDS. Late tonight, (needlessly late since they’re the only game in town), the Dodgers and Giants will play for the right to face the Braves in the upcoming NLCS. Before focusing on that game, a ...