Recognizing the trailblazer
Jackie Robinson Day
Jackie Robinson Day
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.)…
Fontenot flop The vacation got off to a glorious start. Our flight arrived in Phoenix half an hour early and we got our rental car and headed over to HoHoKam Park in Mesa (with a pit stop at In-n-Out Burger…
Doubleday autumn A lot of blogs have been posting photos of warmth — spring training, summer games, general reminders that baseball is nearly back. This is one of the shots (a Droid shot, no less, using one of the camera…
A mural at the entrance to the Sandcastle Things are not looking good in Atlantic City. In some ways, that’s true of many aspects of the Boardwalk Empire (great show, by the way), but it’s especially true of the old…
“First in war, first in peace, and last in the American League.” That’s what they used to say about the old Washington Senators, the hapless bunch of baseball men who couldn’t do much in two separate attempts at playing baseball…
Soon, Casey and I will be riding the rails out to Flushing for another Mets opener (and a Mr. Met bobblehead!). In celebration of baseball coming back to Queens for the season, I’ve pulled some photos from past openers. I…