With the opening of Spring training this week, here’s something that will warm your heart—and may even bring a tear to your eye!…
Happy Presidents’ Day! Let’s Recall President Eisenhower’s “Baseball Secret!”
“Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.” -Dwight Eisenhower
Remembering Tim McCarver
Yesterday, the baseball world was saddened to learn of the passing of Tim McCarver. We’re grateful to contributor Steve Falco for his remembrance of this fine ballplayer who, after his playing days, was selected for the broadcasting wing of the Hall of Fame…
On Being Obsessed with the Brooklyn Dodgers!
I’ve got a real treat for everyone today. Michael Tymn returns and shares with us reminisces from his early years as a Dodger fan in the late 1940s, seventy-five years ago….
1942 Baseball Game Halted by… a Prison Break??
There was a game played in 1942 at the Folsom Correctional Facility in California that was halted because of a prison break! That has to be a first!…
“Where Have You Gone VINCE DiMaggio?” Remembering the Old Oakland Oaks
Where have you gone VINCE DiMaggio? Today we welcome Michale Tymn with an interesting first-hand account from his youth as an Oakland Oaks fan in the 1940s.
THE SHOT HEARD ‘ROUND THE WORLD (THAT ALMOST WASN’T)
Today we welcome back Bill Schaefer with an interesting account of the 1951 game between the Dodgers and Phillies that necessitated the three-game playoff series between the Dodgers and Giants…