Book Review: “Sacramento Baseball”
Sacramento Baseball: a book about a lot of things you didn’t know, and a couple of easily-skippable things you could probably do without. Photo by Bob Moffitt
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Spring Training: When The Melancholy Of Winter Starts To Turn Into Hope
Your team didn’t win last year. But hope is alive, at least for the next 60 days that your boys could win it all this year. Photo by David Dehetre
Read moreNext Up For Bonds/Clemens Apologists: Andy Pettitte For HOF In 2019!
Which new lame excuse will emerge for allowing players who cheated the game into a hall that is supposed to celebrate all that is good about the game? Photo by Bruce Fingerhood via Flickr
Read more“Holy Crabby Patty!” Harmon Killebrew And SpongeBob SquarePants Share A Place In History In Minnesota
The red chair commemorates the 522-foot homer that Harmon Killebrew hit off the Angels’ Lew Burdette on June 3, 1967. Though it now overlooks the “Log Chute” ride at Mall of America’s amusement park, the chair is said to be mounted at the spot where Killebrew’s homer landed in the second deck of the Minnesota Twins’ old Metropolitan Stadium. Edited Photo by Randon Lane
Read moreWho’s Following In The Footsteps Of The Likes Of Dick Enberg? Anyone? Anyone At All?
Dick Enberg, 2015 Ford C. Frick award-winner, is dead at the age of 82. Photo courtesy mlb.com
Read moreIs No Deal a Good Deal for SF Giants?
The Giants didn’t get Stanton, but they haven’t traded away any hall-of-famers yet, either #horacestoneham. Photo by d-deee via flickr
Read moreAlan Trammell Was Already In My Hall Of Fame
Alan Trammell was one of the best players of his generation. The author was a teenager when he got to spend five days with him in 1984. Photo by Roger Dewitt via Flickr
Read moreAaron Freaking Boone Might Be The Right Man To Lead The Yankees If Given A Chance
His 2003 ALCS Game 7 heroics are stamped forever in Yankee lore. Will management give Aaron Boone a chance to bring more titles to the Bronx? Photo by Ben Mortimer via Flickr
Read moreThe Murray Brothers’ Extra Innings Is A Perfect Introduction To Minor League Baseball
The Murray brothers have their own baseball show and our reviewer says they know just what to do with it. Photo by Facebook
Read moreJoe Morgan Is Right About Cheaters Being Kept Out Of the Hall Of Fame
Twenty years ago, Joe Morgan thought something was wrong with baseball. The ball -he could only guess- was “juiced. Today, he knows it was some of the players who were “juiced” and he doesn’t want them in the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Photo by Miguel Ugaide.
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