by Ron Sokol | Nov 5, 2019 | Baseball History, Beautiful baseball, Insight
50 is the new 30. Well, try telling that to my pitching arm… Truth is, age is part mental. You can feel very young, act young, and have a ton of energy, at an advanced age. Getting old is fine. Age brings wisdom, a greater astuteness, and a pride of self....
by Ron Sokol | Nov 1, 2019 | Baseball History
Babe: Incredible, the Washington D.C. team won the world series! Lou: No way… how long that’s been, over a hundred years? Babe: Yep. Lou: You sure they’re the D.C. team. Don’t they play in Baltimore? Babe: Louie, they’re the Nationals,...
by Ron Sokol | Oct 16, 2019 | Baseball History, Beautiful baseball
Goats get a bad rap. The general consensus is they are not all that bright, male and female typically have beards, they chew on tin cans (really?), most have horns, and they will not ever win a beauty contest. Frankly I am sympathetic. No goat ever did me any...
by Ron Sokol | Oct 8, 2019 | Baseball History
The best things in life are free, but you can give them to the birds and bees, I want money… Love that song. Thought of it when I read a brief news flash: Babe Ruth’s top salary was $80,000 in 1930 and 1931, which, adjusted for inflation, is the equivalent...
by Ron Sokol | Sep 7, 2019 | Baseball History, Beautiful baseball, Eternal Baseball
The Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants are historical rivals. There is a level of actual enmity between the two. After all, one team is from Northern California, you know, wine country, the beautiful City by by the Bay, stunning cliffs along the ocean,...
