Here we go again. Baseball has been hit with another scandal, undoubtedly the biggest since the so-called Steroid Era…
New Blog Topic: BASEBALL’S INJURY EPIDEMIC
Unlike many of today’s players, yesterday’s sluggers, including Ted Williams, were not musclebound. But they still did pretty well…
New Blog Topic: WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO HITTING?
Editor’s Note: If you’re concerned about the trend today’s game is on, I urge you to read Bill Gutman’s blog post today. What Bill has uncovered in his research is unsettling and a cause for concern for all of us who love the game…
New Blog Topic: CURT FLOOD AND THE HALL OF FAME
On numbers alone, former Cardinals outfielder Curt Flood does not belong in the Hall of Fame. It’s true that Flood was an excellent ballplayer…
New Blog Topic: WHO’S THE GREATEST?
As the great Willie Mays celebrated his 90th birthday last Thursday, the tributes and accolades rolled in from everywhere…
New Blog Topic: HERE COMES THE HOME RUN DERBY
The one would almost be funny if it wasn’t so frightening…
New Blog Topic: STRIKEOUTS CONTINUE TO SKYROCKET
It’s really an open secret, one that Major League Baseball seems to ignore. But for how long?…
New Blog Topic: BRING ON A KNUCKLEBALLER
Please note: As we compose new blog entries, we will now send each one out […]
New Blog Topic: MLB EXPERIMENTING WITH MORE RULE CHANGES
Well, they’re at it again. While Major League baseball continues to be fixated on speeding up the game, they’re also finally taking heed about the lack of action…
New Blog Topic: WILL WE EVER SEE THE RETURN OF THE ROUTE-GOING ACE
Just recently, I wrote about baseball’s attempt to limit the length of extra-inning games by implementing the rather un-baseball-like rule of putting a runner on second base to begin the tenth inning..
New Blog Topic: WHAT DOES MLB HAVE AGAINST EXTRA-INNING GAMES
When we were kids we always got excited when a ballgame went into extra innings. And why not?…
New Blog Topic: THE .400 HITTER – GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
It’s one of baseball’s magical, yet elusive numbers. So elusive that it hasn’t been achieved in 80 years, not since the great Ted Williams finished the 1941 season with a .406 batting average…
New Blog Topic: BECOMING A BASEBALL FAN IN THE 1950s
All longtime baseball fans have vivid memories of how it all started, whether it be collecting baseball cards, watching games on television, playing ball with your friends,
New Blog Topic: ARE THE HITTERS BEGINNING TO LOOK DIFFERENTLY AT THE SHIFT
There has been a lot of talk about the shift in baseball this spring, including here in these pages. Some feel it should be banned, others vote for modifying it,
New Blog Topic: MLB EXPERIMENTING WITH MORE RULE CHANGES
Well, they’re at it again. While Major League Baseball continues to be fixated on speeding up the game, they’re also finally taking heed about the lack of action caused by fewer balls being put in play during a ballgame…
New Blog Topic: HAPPY FELTON’S KNOTHOLE GANG
Once upon a time, many years ago, there was a pre-game baseball show that actually brought young baseball players of Little League age to the ballpark…
New Blog Topic: HIGH VELOCITY PITCHING – BLESSING OR CURSE
Just recently, a friend forwarded me a story that appeared in the Washington Post back in May of 2019…
New Blog Topic: SOME VERY STRANGE BASEBALL RULES
For as long as most of us can remember, the basic rules of baseball haven’t really changed much since we discovered the game…
New Blog Topic: WHERE HAVE ALL THE GREAT BASEBALL NICKNAMES GONE?
Here we see “Double-X” teasing “The Splendid Splinter” about his scrawny biceps. There was a time when many baseball players had colorful nicknames that followed them their entire careers. Some of them weren’t exactly flattering, but they stuck.
New Blog Topic: WHAT GAME ARE WE WATCHING?
For longtime baseball fans like us, the game has always meant a great deal and we’ve been watching it for as long as we can remember…
New Blog Topic: THE MUSIC OF BASEBALL, PART TWO
It started when I wrote a blog about baseball’s National Anthem, “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” I followed it with another blog, highlighting the Music of Baseball, four classic tunes about our great game…
New Blog Topic: MLB CONTINUES TO POISON REAL BASEBALL
As Yogi would say, it’s deja view all over again. Another season is arriving and we will be presented with a game that is called baseball, but one that is increasingly foreign to longtime fans…
New Blog Topic: Records that Will Never Be Broken
To most longtime fans, baseball is still the greatest game every invented. Not only do we relish what happens between the lines, but we’ve always loved the numbers – the stats and the records…
New Blog Topic: MLB VS. THE PLAYERS’ ASSOCIATION
I don’t think any of you will dispute the fact that baseball today is just as much – or maybe more – about the money as it is about the game on the field…
Fun With Old Baseball Ads, Part Two
As promised, here’s Part Two of my feature on “Old Baseball Ads.” We had a lot of fun with Part One, with some of the readers sending me ads that they found themselves….