by Ron Sokol | Mar 30, 2018 | Baseball History, Beautiful baseball, Dodgers, Fans, MLB, Photos
Anticipation, excitement, gladness. This team that fell just one game short last year, is back, largely intact. So much in the air, and wonderful weather. Kirk Gibson, whose remarkable, historic, hollywood-story home run in 1988, throws out the first ball. We see...
by Ron Sokol | Mar 25, 2018 | Baseball History, Beautiful baseball, Classical music, Columns, Superstitions
Someone said you know the season is about to begin and there’s a baseball spirit who sets the table who spruces the whole place up and puts the bats there the balls the mitts the uniforms chalks the lines just right gets the umps focused and keen and who opens...
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 | Feb 28, 2018 | Baseball History, Beautiful baseball, Columns, Fans, MLB
“High fly ball…. She’s a way out there…. she’s gonnnnnnne!” Well, not literally. Chances are someone has that unique souvenier: The ball. A part of the actual game, being played right then and there by the major league players. ...
by Ron Sokol | Feb 21, 2018 | Baseball History, Beautiful baseball, Christy Wallace, Columns, Dodgers, Fans, MLB
“Hey, what’s with that picture you sent? I wasn’t hibernating. I didn’t just slumber. Nor did I crawl into a cave, sleep, and live off my fat… Did you?” “No way! I spent plenty of time getting into really good shape. I...
