The news that the Mets are just a physical away from signing Chris Young has me smiling. It’s just that I think he’s a good signing in this offseason of frugal living — a low-cost starting pitcher who has the…
The Simpsons snuck another slight baseball reference into Sunday night’s show that I just caught while watching it on DVR this afternoon. In the above image, tacked to the wall behind Comic Book Guy, is an issue of the Radioactive…
Didn’t get a chance to post anything today and won’t have a chance tomorrow, because I’ll be with the family at the Acela Club for Mom’s birthday. Here’s hoping for a rubber-game win. But in the meantime, check out this…
My wife has been on a nostalgia kick lately (not sure if I was any influence there) and has been going through all her old copies of Sassy magazine. I’m willing to bet that few, if any, readers of this…
Happened to be browsing through the games available for purchase at Baseball’s Best on iTunes and noticed these Mets-related gems: Game 5 of the 1969 World Series Game 3 of the 1986 NLCS Game 6 of the 1986 NLCS Game…
After reading this Larry Dierker column about former Red Sox pitcher Frank Sullivan, I came across this piece that recounts the day Sullivan and some teammates — but not all — sat for Norman Rockwell as models for his painting…
Happened to find myself watching the video for Will Smith’s — ahem, sorry — the Fresh Prince’s … OK, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince’s “Summertime” today. Not only does that song take me back to 1991 (DAMN!), but…
A coworker of mine has what might be described as a throwback blog called Cladrite Radio and today he wrote about a somewhat recent posting of the full-day audio archives from Sept. 21, 1939, of WJSV in Washington, D.C. I…
When I began this blog several years ago as a means to continue to write about baseball after I left sportswriting, I had no plans to use it as a money-making venture. And I still don’t; I simply do it…