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For me, baseball in the early 1980’s was a mixed bag. I still had some affinity to the New York Yankees (especially pitcher Ron Guidry and slugger Reggie Jackson), but I also liked the power of the Pittsburgh Pirates (heck, Willie Stargell could knock any pitch over the center field wall with ease). But how…

Pete Rose, the most prolific hitter in Major League Baseball history, passed away earlier this week. He was 83. The man nicknamed “Charlie Hustle” played the game with an unmatched intensity. He would sprint to first base after drawing a walk at the plate. He once ran full-speed around the bases in an All-Star Game…

I used to be a New York Yankees fan way back in the day. And by “back in the day,” I mean the late 1970’s. Radio station 3WD in Schenectady would broadcast Yankees games on the radio, and I would enjoy listening to Bill White and Frank Messer and Phil Rizzuto call games. Even when…

Background. Last Saturday, I had a wonderful Date Night. Lunch at the Cheesecake Factory – spoiler alert: they sell lots of cheesecakes – then an afternoon of gambling at Rivers Casino. And surprisingly, both of us left with more money than we brought (she hit 5-of-a-kind on a Joker Poker machine and had no idea…

News came last night that David Ortiz, the Boston Red Sox home run hero, is now a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. He will join six other players that were selected from a veteran’s committee – including Jim Kaat, Buck O’Neill and Minnie Minoso – as Hall of Famers at the next induction…

Right now, baseball is involved in a strange scandal. There are pitchers who are using a combination of suntan lotion, rosin and something called Spider Tack, which allows them to pitch fastballs and sliders with incredibly high spin rates, pitches that can flummox even the most skilled batters. It hearkens back to the days of…

My friend Matt wanted to know if I was interested in doing a baseball game this weekend, as his beloved Chicago White Sox were playing in Yankee Stadium. I looked up Yankee Stadium’s new seating plan. Yankee Stadium is one of several baseball fields that offers vaccinated and non-vaccinated sections. Well, since Matt and I…

It started out as a feel-good story – the Houston Astros, whose hometown was battered and bashed by Hurricane Harvey earlier that year, finally won their first World Series championship. Yesterday, Major League Baseball suspended Astros General Manager Jeff Luhnow and manager AJ Hinch for the entire 2020 season for their actions – or inactions…