Category Archives: beisbol
Poets Priests And Politicians
Sting turned sixty this month; one day before Dave Winfield did. I’m not sure how much they followed each others careers, but I followed both closely as a tween then teen. I got my first radio around 1980. It was … Continue reading
Filed under baseball, beisbol, Music, Uncategorized
Media Play
I haven’t written much about baseball lately. Truth be told, I haven’t watched much since the Red Sox collapsed. Maybe I will write a post-mortem on their season, but what can I add that hasn’t already been said? I have … Continue reading
More about the Leaders of the Free World (and baseball!)
I visited the FDR Home in Hyde Park with my wife and mother-in-law a couple of months ago. It was right after the Bowash earthquake of 2011 and right before Hurricane Irene (why don’t they name earthquakes, too?) I picked … Continue reading
Filed under baseball, beisbol, Dead Presidents
Harry Dalton for the Hall of Fame?
I have piece over at Baseball Past and Present about Harry Dalton’s Cooperstown credentials. I feel it is rather timely, seeing how the Brewers are trying to make the World Series and he was their GM 29 years ago when … Continue reading
No Fear
Baseball games are like fingerprints. No two are exactly alike. Baseball games can also be like ancestors. They live on in memories even more than twenty years. It isn’t always what happened, but who did it. Seems like yesterday, but … Continue reading
The End of Baseball Blogging and the Last Blogger
Steve Treder makes a good point in this BTF thread that went political soon after it started: There is something, though, to the notion that “it used to be better,” and it’s this: there was a time when we could … Continue reading
Filed under Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, baseball, beisbol
Greenies – An Appeal to Readers
Does anyone here know how teams and players acquired greenies back in the Sixties? Who were the suppliers? I’m sure this was discussed in the steroids threads at BBTF, but I didn’t follow those too closely.
If Imitation Is Homage, The Wall Street Journal Loves Me
Six Degrees of Jack McKeon I didn’t write anything about Jack McKeon, but this fits the style of some of my work going back to the Mike Morgan piece I wrote ten years ago.
Calling Nate Silver
Quinnipiac University has two polls about baseball fandom out this week. One from Pennsylvania and the other from Connecticut. Overall, most Keystone staters prefer the Phillies, but that might be because they are in the most populous part of the … Continue reading
Week 2 Thoughts
Not a good week so far. The Red Sox did take two against the Yankees. The rest of the news wasn’t as good. When he was on the team, I thought that Manny Ramirez made the Red Sox more interesting. … Continue reading
Filed under baseball, beisbol, Maranvillains
