BASEBALL, AND WHAT REALLY COUNTS

If you’re a bit like me, it aggravates you no end if the manager takes the pitcher out, puts in a reliever, who then blows the game all together.  Or, there are runners on first and third, one out, the hitter just needs a sacrifice fly, or even a soft grounder,...

WINE AND BASEBALL – GLOVE AND BALL

Baseball has a lot in common with wine.  Baseball and wine are like crackers and cheese — very simpatico.   For example,  you go to a wine tasting, and you choose from a variety offered.  A number of different types of wines are evaluated.  Each has some...

OK, I AM MAKING A PITCH HERE

Stamina – the ability to endure, to keep going, to get a second maybe even a third wind. Nolan Ryan once threw 235 pitches in a game for the then-California Angels.  It was not all that long ago, 1974.  That was early in his career, and he went on to pitch for 27...

NOW THAT’S REALLY ODD!

Baseball has so many uniquenesses.  Here are just a few in case you’re at the ball park, or watching on the telly, or at a cocktail party and want to impress or at least amuse with your vast array of knowledge: Virgil “Fire” Trucks pitched in 1952...

ABSOLUTE PROOF OF BASEBALL PURITY

In our judicial system, for a civil claim, you have a burden of proof to demonstrate the case by a preponderance of the evidence.  This means “more likely than not”, or roughly 51/49 in your favor.  In many states 9 out of 12 jurors is satisfactory for you...