Yogi remembers George
I forgot to take my camera to the Yogi Berra Museum yesterday for the Hall of Famer’s comments on the passing of George Steinbrenner, but it didn’t matter — there were so many TV cameras there that I didn’t have…
I forgot to take my camera to the Yogi Berra Museum yesterday for the Hall of Famer’s comments on the passing of George Steinbrenner, but it didn’t matter — there were so many TV cameras there that I didn’t have…
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…
11:29 p.m. update — The Daily Show interview was great, of course, and Jon Stewart’s New Jersey roots made it unique, when Stewart mentioned Mays’ days with the Trenton Giants in 1950. Back when the Trenton Thunder came along in…
Rob Neyer on ESPN.com and Pat Andriola on The Hardball Times speculate that Mike Piazza will one day sport a Mets cap when he’s inevitably inducted into the Hall of Fame. Their reasoning is based mostly on statistics and legacy,…
Sixty-three-point-four. That’s the magic number, 63.4 percent. Top that, and your chances of gaining access to a club many of us could only dream of entering are greatly improved. Seventy is even better. Seventy is a nice, round number, and…
Love this photo of former teammates Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan at the 1972 All-Star Game in Atlanta. The pic comes from the outstanding Steve’s Baseball Photography Pages, which I’ve casually browsed through before but had not fully investigated. This…
I’ve been watching MLB Network here and there, both at work and at home, and I really should start keeping it on in the background or as my default channel for idle loafing. (“Idle loafing” — not oxymoronic, just hyper-loaf-like.)…
Like most of baseball, I went about my day last Monday as I normally would. I didn’t take any time out of my day to visit MLB.com and listen to the coverage of the Hall of Fame from Cooperstown, the…
I’m lazy. Or busy. Or both. In any case, I need to gear up for spring training and get back to some posting. But I’m taking the easy way out right now. I want to get something up before the…