by Ron Sokol | Feb 13, 2021 | Baseballs
The reports are MLB is going to take some steps so the baseball this season is a bit deader – doesn’t fly out of the park so much, or something along those lines. Wait a second. Hold on. Whoahhhhhhhh! You can’t throw a spit ball. You sure can’t...
by Ron Sokol | Jul 17, 2019 | Baseballs
In this unusual piece, our intrepid reporter managed to get an exclusive interview with a baseball, freshly made, and at a major league park. The ball is very unique because it is able to communicate, has a voice, and did not roll away. Following is the verbatim,...
by Ron Sokol | Jul 10, 2019 | Baseballs, Beautiful baseball
Fred is a good friend, many years, turning 60 years young in just a short while. Has been to countless baseball games, countless, but never managed to get a ball. That changed this past Sunday. I happened to take a quick break beginning of the fourth inning, to get...
by Ron Sokol | Jan 9, 2019 | Baseball History, Baseballs
We know baseball is quirky. Superstitions. Rituals. Hand signals. But to this day there’s a certain kind of mud rubbed on the baseballs used in major league games? And no one is to know the location of where the mud can be found? The only thing that seems a...
by Ron Sokol | Dec 19, 2018 | Baseball History, Baseballs, Columns, Insight, Uncategorized
If I named my son Homer, it would not be after the Greek writer. It would be in honor of baseball. After all, I do not want to call him “Round Tripper”… or for that matter, “Dinger”. Homers are good. A ball so well struck it leaves the...
by Ron Sokol | Aug 31, 2018 | Baseball History, Baseballs, Columns, Eternal Baseball, Pitchers
The philosopher Thomas Hobbes said life outside society would be “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”. He was not, I repeat, not speaking about the life of a major league baseball, although an argument could be made he was thinking outside the box,...