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 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 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)...
by Ron Sokol | Aug 10, 2019 | Baseball History, Humor
Let me ask: Do you keep lists? Would you have a list that tells you where to find the list you were working on the other day? Is that called “listing”? Are you checking your list twice, or is that just for Santa to do? Major league baseball has lists,...
by Ron Sokol | Aug 3, 2019 | Baseball History, Humor, Pitchers
You come out of the bull pen, you may be asked to get the team out of a jam. Or you may be asked to keep it close, or keep the team ahead. You may indeed be the closer, who is such a key, critical part of the equation. And, the situation you walk, jog or skip into...
by Ron Sokol | Aug 1, 2019 | Analysis, Baseball History
Is it like being told you are going to be stationed overseas? Perhaps in a place where there’s a risk of harm to your person? And, you don’t really know even when you’ll be back? Or, worse yet, if? Reminds you of a divorce? “Ok, pack your...
