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 | Mar 18, 2018 | Baseball History, Beautiful baseball, Eternal Baseball, Fans, MLB, Poems
When you were born I promised to hit a home run and make you proud have you stand up and cheer and applaud as I did you When you started to grow I showed you how to pitch catch field slug that ball a mile a country mile And you were incredibly polite but you knew you...
by Ron Sokol | Mar 14, 2018 | Baseball History, Bobbleheads, Columns, Eternal Baseball, MLB
And now a quote concerning the all important history of the bobblehead: “Bobblehead is a collectable doll… which has a characteristically oversized head that is connected to the body with a spring or wire and when the head is lightly tapped it would...
by Ron Sokol | Mar 11, 2018 | Baseball History, Fans, Nicknames, Quotations, Superstitions
After Don Larsen struck out Dale Mitchell to pitch a perfect game in the 1956 World Series, Yankee catcher Yogi Berra jumped into Larsen’s arms with great joy. We all know Yogi sure came up with some remarkable quotes… but it was a reporter, not Yogi, who...
by Ron Sokol | Mar 10, 2018 | Baseball History, Fans, MLB, Photos
by Ron Sokol | Mar 7, 2018 | Baseball History, Columns, Fans, MLB, Pete Rose
IT’S TIME I could swear I heard this somewhere: “To err is human to forgive, divine…” I could swear I’ve heard that! But, if we are going to get particularly solemn, here is a quote from 1 John 1:9: “If we confess our sins, he is...
