I’m on my way out of town for the weekend, so I won’t make it out to the Lakewood BlueClaws final four home games. The team is accepting donations to help those affected by Hurricane Katrina, so keep that in mind if you head to the ballpark.
The Trenton Thunder are helping as well, accepting donations as well as setting aside a portion of each playoff ticket sold to give to the relief effort.
You can also help via the Red Cross.
Shad Whiteley delivers a pitch. Second in a series. July 11, 1999 The Pittsfield (Mass.) Mets were in town Tuesday, so the Staten Island Yankees billed it as the “Subway Series of Tomorrow.” But how many of these players will…
Way to go, Rick Porcello! The Jersey guy had a chance to pick up a little gift in exchange for a couple of digits, but he chose a different route instead. Torii Hunter asked his new teammate for No. 48,…
This is the first of a series of columns I wrote for the Asbury Park Press in the summer of 1999. I’ve left the original headlines and text, but have updated some of the photos included with each post. July…
The Advertiser-News, a weekly paper in Sussex County, has a follow-up article to the departure of the Sussex Skyhawks (a tip of the ol’ hat to Ballpark Biz). Those on the ballpark side of things are saying all the right…
A quick memory of Johnny Podres, who died over the weekend at 75: Summer of 2001, I’m driving down to Lakewood, N.J., to cover the BlueClaws in a game that night. On the Garden State Parkway, I pass a Cadillac…
Something inspired me this summer to take a look at the nicknames of the 160 affiliated minor league teams to see what the most popular format was for naming affiliates. What lies behind identities like the 66ers, the Bees or…