Kipling knew that both triumph and disaster fade. Look no further than baseball history to see how quickly the public forgets. From 1921–1924, the then-New York Giants won four pennants in a row and won the World Series twice, defeating the “Babe Ruth” Yankees twice. Ross Youngs was the fearless leader of these teams. What do Giants’ fans know of him today?
There’s a difference between a team that has its act together and a team that is currently starring in a blooper reel. One manager is planning a menu. The other is trying to remember where he parked.
Read moreAaron is still the real king. Aaron Judge is the real single-season home-run-record-holder. Make no mistake. Aaron knew it and said so when he was alive. Judge can’t or won’t say where his rightful place in the record books is. But, the announcers and networks are telling you something different. You are being sold something here, and it’s not the truth.
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…one fan held a loft a sign that read, “This is Heaven.” It…was.
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On July 18, the museum hosted “Play Ball!” which featured discussions with former San Francisco Giants and Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker and a slew of other Major League players and scouts. In addition to Baker, Leon Lee, Leron Lee, Matt Walbeck, Greg Orr, and Paul Cogan shared stories and anecdotes from their careers in baseball.
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The manager sets the tone. Boone’s carefree approach is reflected in the team’s performance on the field. He has mastered the art of looking unbothered while his team invents new ways to blow games.
Read moreMLB may have finally evolved the All-Star Game to the point where it no longer knows what it is for. The ceremony is lavish, the staging immaculate, the production values high enough to make an emperor blush. But beneath the glitter, the game itself can feel like an afterthought, a moving backdrop for the spectacle that surrounds it. P.T. Barnum would have admired the scale. I’m not sure he would have loved the baseball.
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No announcers or brightly-colored anythings or disgraced former ballplayers intruded on that, which was nice. But, the fact they were really close to being able to should be taken into account by Netflix. This is the first year of a three-year contract to broadcast the event.
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I remember racing home to see the 1968 game and watching Don Drysdale pitch three innings of one-hit baseball. The Great Juan Marichal followed that up with two innings of high-leg-kick mastery. And 1976, during his unforgettable Cinderella season, Mark “The Bird” Fidrych earned the start for the American League All-Stars—a moment that captured the rise of a pitcher unlike anything baseball had seen before or since. It felt real. It was real.
Read moreSome of the voting was on point. Some was a Canadian conspiracy. A couple of the finalists do not have the stats to be there. Several of the second place finishers also did not deserve the votes they received.
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