by Ron Sokol | May 22, 2018 | Babe Ruth, Baseball History, Beautiful baseball, Columns, Eternal Baseball, Fans, Lou Gehrig, MLB, Nicknames, Yankees
Why do you think they moved his locker to the Hall of Fame? I mean, a locker? Isn’t that a set-up for a one-liner? Irony is defined in Wikipedia as “the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous...
by Ron Sokol | Apr 24, 2018 | Babe Ruth, Baseball History, Columns, Eternal Baseball, Fans, Hot dogs, Immigrants, Lou Gehrig, MLB
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! Babe Ruth’s parents were German immigrants. Joe Dimaggio...
by Ron Sokol | Apr 10, 2018 | Babe Ruth, Baseball History, Beautiful baseball, Columns, Eternal Baseball, Fans, Hot dogs, Immigrants, Jose Altuve, Lou Gehrig, MLB, Nicknames, Photos
Can I pull you aside, for just a tiny bit? Would you sit on the bench and let me, please, if you would, share something with you? It may well be that you agree. Here goes: I think baseball is beautiful. When you go to the park, it is a kind of worship. There is...
by Ron Sokol | Mar 20, 2018 | Babe Ruth, Baseball History, Beautiful baseball, Columns, Fans, Immigrants, Lou Gehrig, MLB, Yankees
A Yankee is someone who lives in the United States, or is from the U.S., and particularly an inhabitant of New England or one of the northern states. Well that’s what it says…. Yankee Doodle Dandy is a musical film from the early 1940s about George M....
by Ron Sokol | Jan 9, 2018 | Babe Ruth, Baseball History, Beautiful baseball, Christy Wallace, Columns, MLB
As if Babe Ruth was not in and of himself large enough, charismatic enough, and colorful enough to promote his own self. As if….. “Wait a second folks. Don’t forget the help provided by Christy Walsh. He was huge in the Babe’s...
