Watching history from New Hampshire
Johan, in April My father called during the seventh inning. I was up in New Hampshire, sitting in the living room of my college roommate’s lakehouse after the four of us — my wife, Bryan, his partner and me —…
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Halfway point on a 1969 Mets photo
1969 Mets reunion 2.0 Nearly one year ago (Jan. 30, to be exact), I got the first autograph on this photo. This weekend, I added two more to reach the halfway point. First, on Saturday, I drove up to White…
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Jim Qualls vs. Tom Seaver
Part of my 2011 Christmas haul I finally watched the recent episode of Studio 42 with Bob Costas in which he sat down with Tom Seaver up in Cooperstown to talk about Tom Terrific’s career. There was some great stuff…
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Someone like Jose
OK, so Jose Reyes’ departure snapped me out of my (unintended) blogging hiatus. I found it in myself to read more posts on Reyes from some other blogs over the past two days. I always appreciate good writing, even when…
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Parting shot
Until next year … Summer time has come and gone, and everybody’s home again Closing down for the season, I found the last of the souvenirs — Billy Joel, “Famous Last Words” I took this shot after the final game…
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Thanks, Carlos
It was a pleasure watching you. Looking forward to another postseason tear.
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The Gooden billboard!
I knew someone had to have a shot of it. That someone is a guy by the name of Matt Weber, and the photo was posted on a blog called peripherybaseball. Many thanks. This brings back a lot of memories.
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Picture this: Saturday night Dodgers-Mets
Before we get too much further from last Saturday, here are some shots from batting practice and the game against the Dodgers. I won tickets and field access for batting practice in a contest via the team’s Twitter account. The…
