It Only Took 100 Years; 5 Women Broadcast Major League Baseball game    The longer you are a baseball fan, the more you discover how slowly the game adopts changes, especially positive changes.  100 years ago, on August 5, 1921, the first baseball game was broadcast on KDKA radio in Pittsburgh.  Regular broadcasts began ...

There’s an exciting sport that’s been played since this past February where fans are starting to be welcomed back.   By the time you’re reading this, regional playoffs will have begun.  The game would be nearly unrecognizable to fans and players of major league baseball, but baseball it is.  Strict major league purists sneer at college ...

  Hi friends.  Here’s how I see baseball on this Wednesday, May 19.  Somebody in MLB should have thought of this.  Following Spencer Turnbull’s no-hitter late last night, 5 9-inning no-hitters have been thrown, and the season isn’t two months old.  As if that wasn’t bad enough, last night’s hero led the American League in ...

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. ...