by Ron Sokol | Jun 15, 2019 | Eternal Baseball
In our judicial system, for a civil claim, you have a burden of proof to demonstrate the case by a preponderance of the evidence. This means “more likely than not”, or roughly 51/49 in your favor. In many states 9 out of 12 jurors is satisfactory for you...
by Ron Sokol | Jun 8, 2019 | Eternal Baseball, Inspiration, Uncategorized
Over 200 years ago, a gentleman named Francis Scott Key wrote a poem “The Defence of Fort McHenry”. We know it today as the Star Spangled Banner. In time a bit of a joke has arisen: “What are the last two words of the National Anthem?”...
by Ron Sokol | Apr 18, 2019 | Beautiful baseball, Columns, Eternal Baseball, Uncategorized
Do you have a place you go, or hang out, where you “take five”? I would guess most who go to a baseball game, sit in their seats, browse around a bit, get food, go to the restroom, stretch, but largely stay put, right? That works, but at times I find...
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 | Nov 4, 2018 | Baseball History, Beautiful baseball, Columns, Eternal Baseball, Uncategorized
“Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” So said the poet Dylan Thomas. Well ok. There’s also: “You know the night time, is the right time to be with 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,...
