by Ron Sokol | Aug 31, 2019 | Baseball History, Beautiful baseball
Let me take your down cuz I’m going to… Wrigley Field…. Everything is real, and baseball to get up about. Wrigley Field for ever… Yes, I paraphrased a famous song, but it is so hard to know all what to say about Wrigley Field. At the end of...
by Ron Sokol | Aug 28, 2019 | Statistics, Umpires
Technology and Major League Baseball are waltzing together. The radar gun. Instant replay Pitch graphics. Doppler radar. Every single MLB stadium is equipped with triangulated tracing cameras that follow the ball from the pitcher’s hand until it crosses home...
by Ron Sokol | Aug 25, 2019 | Analysis, Baseball History, Insight
Thank you to Skip Collinge who posted this on Say What!! Baseball Oddities and let me borrow it here. My reply to this: Amen! I was so looking forward to the Yankee Series this weekend. Dodgers- Yankees is all about history and tradition. Look at these pictures-...
by Ron Sokol | Aug 24, 2019 | Beautiful baseball, Eternal Baseball, Inspiration
He’s not classically good looking. He isn’t exactly charismatic. He is kind of built like a gnome (no offense to him or gnomes). I mean, his nick name is Funky. He came up to the majors in 2015 with the Oakland Athletics, and in 45 games hit all of...
by Ron Sokol | Aug 21, 2019 | Baseball History, Beautiful baseball
“War, good God, what is it good for? Absolutely nuthin! Say it again…” Now, that’s a well-known song from awhile ago. Given all the complaints I am hearing and reading, and the analyses, that very refrain could apply to the great (or once)...