by Ron Sokol | Oct 25, 2019 | Beautiful baseball, Fans, Fun, Inspiration
I. TIME TO GO HOME They were nice, polite. Didn’t bother me until they were about to turn off the lights. “Sir, would love to have you stay over, but it isn’t allowed…” I did not have much to go home to, and being at the ball park is more...
by Ron Sokol | Jul 8, 2019 | Fans, Humor
Talk about fake news! I keep hearing and reading that baseball’s popularity is on the down swing. A number of teams are struggling for suitable fan attendance, the pundits insist. Well, those naysayers are very dogged, but not dogged enough. Here is proof...
by Ron Sokol | Apr 27, 2019 | Baseball History, Beautiful baseball, Fans, Humor, Insight, Silly
“He was so inspired” “How inspired was he?” “He was so inspired he created the sun, the moon, the planets, the stars, oceans, plants, air, music, space, colors, animals, humans, insects, fish, rocks, mountains, prairies, ice, the...
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 | Oct 16, 2018 | Columns, Fans, Insight, Inspiration
Forlorn: Pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely. “forlorn figures at bus stops” Woebegon; doleful. The definition of forlorn includes figures at bus stops? Woebegone? That sounds like the trade name for an anti-depressant. Well, have you seen how...
by Ron Sokol | Sep 14, 2018 | Baseball History, Fans, Videos
Ah, the ceremonial first pitch; one of the baseball’s rituals… The ball originally was thrown from the grandstand, but that changed after President Reagan threw the first pitch from the field. Often today the pitch is done from in front of the...