baseball
November 4, 2009
- My newest piece is up at The Broad Street Review: Here's the link: http://www.broadstreetreview.com/index.php/main/article/my_ball_team_my_sisterAnd here're the opening paragraphs: My father and two of my uncles sat at the breakfast room table, the radio between them. I lay on the floor, rigid with tension, the linoleum cold as clay under my back. When Dick Sisler homered, I was so happy. I ...
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October 29, 2009
- Sex, Baseball and a Good Curry One item of news I spotted today was... "Fan denies sex-for-tickets gambit".With the baseball “World Series” starting... yesterday and NO--- I still have not worked out how it can be a "World Series" where only American teams and a token Canadian team take part. According to the news... A mother-of-two has been charged with offering ...
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October 28, 2009
- THE PROJECT There are many baseball fans, when asked who the “best pitcher in baseball” is, respond “Nolan Ryan.” Throughout the late 1970s, 1980s and into the early 1990s, the idea that Ryan was the best of all pitchers was a pervasive concept. The truth is, Ryan was the most dominant pitcher, but not the best. However, it was in that dominance, that spectacular style of power and ...
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October 19, 2009
- Sad news from California has darkened the dappled-blue, fall Tennessee sky, 2,000 miles away. There was a foreboding tone in middle-brother Theo’s voice-mail message this morning. “I have news,” he stated. “It’s something I don’t want to tell you in a phone message or an email. Please call me back.” “Hi, Dad,” was my sister-in-law Cyndi’s answer. “No, it’s ...
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October 11, 2009
- Fall from grace “There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usages of man’s life; ‘Know Thyself,’ and ‘Nothing too much’: and upon these all other precepts depend.” - Plutarch, Greek philosopher “A man’s got to know his limitations.” - Clint Eastwood as “Dirty Harry” Callahan, Magnum Force “All glory ...
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October 10, 2009
- "CAN'T TELL THE PLAYERS WITHOUT A PROGRAM" Scorecards, box scores and programs over the years reflect the obvious changes not just in baseball, but in America. Early programs advertised "base ball contests" as if the carnival were coming to town. In 1897, the Brooklyn Bridegrooms featured a St. Pauli Girl-style maiden holding a bottle of malt, which was "What ...
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October 9, 2009
- The heroes “You can’t compare Joe to me.” - Willie Mays's assessment of Joe DiMaggio It starts with the center fielders. In the 1950s there were three: Mickey Mantle of the Yankees, Willie Mays of the Giants, and Duke Snider of the Dodgers. These three Hall of Famers embodied their respective championship teams, and were compared endlessly by fans of each during a time ...
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October 6, 2009
- After the Pentecost: July 10 – July 16, 1969 On July 10, 1966, the New York Mets lost to Pittsburgh, 9-4, to become the first team in Major League history to lose 500 games in their first five seasons. The New Testament tells us that after Christ’s death and Resurrection, there was a period of time in which The Word was slowly spread in Jerusalem, the Jewish countryside, then ...
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September 17, 2009
- I was going to write, as is quite often the case, the best blog ever. But something changed that, because this blog I could not make up. This blog I couldn’t think of on my own. In fact this blog that you are reading now has to do something with an actual event that some of you may have saw on TV. Steve Monfortos caught a ball that Jason Werth, a right fielder from the Philadelphia Phillies, ...
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August 28, 2009
- http://www.tcm-ca.com/reviews/3165.htmlSharing a new review of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." Given the current climate of social discontent, I was pretty darn prophetic with my novel, if I do say so myself. Now if only I could apply this skill to determining the Lotto numbers, lol.
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