by Ron Sokol | Jan 12, 2019 | Baseball History, Beautiful baseball, Uncategorized
This image was posted on a baseball face book site. Looks like the folks in the stands are quite well dressed. Did you know that in 1927 there was 70,000 at the Yankees’ opening game? It was a day game, of course. Baseball used to be played only in the...
by Ron Sokol | Jan 9, 2019 | Baseball History, Baseballs
We know baseball is quirky. Superstitions. Rituals. Hand signals. But to this day there’s a certain kind of mud rubbed on the baseballs used in major league games? And no one is to know the location of where the mud can be found? The only thing that seems a...
by Ron Sokol | Jan 5, 2019 | Analysis, Baseball History, Columns, Uncategorized
Field manager. Not General Manager. The one in the dug out, who saunters onto the field at times. Does things behind the scenes. Figures out who is playing, and at what position, and who pitches to whom and for how long. Walks the line-up card to the Umps, most of...
