When Niekro pitched to Boggs
I never got to see Phil Niekro pitch during his career, even though he pitched for five-plus seasons after I went to my first baseball game. But in 2017, I got to watch him throw batting practice to fellow Hall…
I never got to see Phil Niekro pitch during his career, even though he pitched for five-plus seasons after I went to my first baseball game. But in 2017, I got to watch him throw batting practice to fellow Hall…
The Hall of Fame this year unveiled a new initiative called “Starting Nine,” essentially a scavenger hunt for fans of each team when they visit the museum this year. The staff at the Hall selected nine artifacts from each franchise…
Is there anything that can tell more about an American summer than, say, the smell of the wooden bleachers in a small town baseball park, that resinous, sultry and exciting smell of old dry wood? — Thomas Wolfe
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…
Matt and me and Nolan I first went to Cooperstown in 1988, when my family stopped over for a night in August on our way to Boston and Maine for our regular summer vacation. The second trip came in 1992,…
It’s Hall of Fame weekend, an event I’ve been to once and hope to get to again soon. The first visit was in 1992, for Tom Seaver’s induction. I’m too young to remember all but a little of Seaver’s career….
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…