My year on the disabled list
As a kid, I played baseball from sometime in maybe the second grade through my junior year of high school. When I wasn’t good enough to make varsity before my senior year and realized that I would be practicing every…
As a kid, I played baseball from sometime in maybe the second grade through my junior year of high school. When I wasn’t good enough to make varsity before my senior year and realized that I would be practicing every…
Donnie Baseball stands in Didn’t get around to today’s slideshow as early as I have the past two weeks, so no attempt at a soundtrack today and no particular reason for choosing this set. This was a late-August game between…
Cobb Field by trimworksconst on Flickr As I have shown with Tiger Stadium, I’m always a bit saddened when a historic ballpark becomes obsolete and the only viable option for teams that want to remain relevant in their communities is…
Mark McGwire at Wrigley Field, May 1, 1998 I graduated from college in 1998, so that was a special summer for me, too. I set up my spring semester schedule to only have classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. My friends…
Juan Gonzalez Tonight I’m posting what I hope will be the first in a weekly — or at least bi-weekly — feature wherein I go back to my film negatives and scan in photos I’ve taken since I got my…
Here we are in another year — and another chance for me to make promises about being a better updater of this blog, of trying harder to use this space as an outlet for my thoughts and ideas on the…
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 don’t often read in bed anymore, another lost pastime swallowed up into the sensory overload brought on by digital cable and sleep timers on the TV. But tonight, as I spread out in the center of our queen-size bed,…
As I sit here watching the Mets and Pirates (and the Yankees and Red Sox … OK, and the Rockies and Cardinals and the Brewers and Astros), I look at the batter’s boxes and remember how bad public fields are….