by Ron Sokol | Mar 27, 2019 | Baseball History, Beautiful baseball, Humor, Pitchers, Uncategorized
The games lasts 3 hours, at least. Four balls. Four balls until you walk. Not run… walk. Guys come in from the bull pen, so let’s all pause. And, it takes three strikes to get rid of a batter. In the mean time how many foul balls will he hit before he...
by Ron Sokol | Mar 23, 2019 | Beautiful baseball, Columns, Eternal Baseball, Family, Immigrants, Uncategorized
Hi, this is Khayyir. I am 10. You are my favorite player. I went to a game and you hit two home runs and made a really good catch in the outfield. My dad, and my mom, like you too. They always say “Mike Trout is a good man, that is a good man…”...
by Ron Sokol | Feb 24, 2019 | Baseball History, Beautiful baseball, Fans, Uncategorized
Look, if you’ve been buried in snow. Or work. Or, well, you just miss the “crack of the bat”. Whatever it is, you see opening day of the baseball season almost at hand and you long to be there. Maybe you play hooky from work. Last year, 2018,...
by Ron Sokol | Feb 13, 2019 | Beautiful baseball
All of us dream. We dream as kids. We dream as adults. I think that dreaming, day dreaming mind you, can be a very good thing. I want to say “Tell me what you are dreaming and I think you are on your way to becoming just that…” My earliest dreams...
by Ron Sokol | Feb 2, 2019 | Beautiful baseball, Poems, Uncategorized
So you stand near the track and look out rooting for that horse “Come on baby!” Or you stand in front of the large window as the plane lands and then the passengers come through the walk way there she is! There! Or you know it’s the holidays and...
by Ron Sokol | Jan 12, 2019 | Baseball History, Beautiful baseball, Uncategorized
This image was posted on a baseball face book site. Looks like the folks in the stands are quite well dressed. Did you know that in 1927 there was 70,000 at the Yankees’ opening game? It was a day game, of course. Baseball used to be played only in the...
