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DEAR MIKE TROUT, from your friend Khayyir (or, another reason to like baseball)

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…”...

BASEBALL MATTERS

by Ron Sokol | Aug 13, 2018 | Baseball History, Columns, Eternal Baseball, Immigrants, MLB

Mom and dad both kept stuff in a wooden chest, tucked away for us. “Kids, open this when the time comes.  Sort through it.  Relive what you can.  Enjoy what you can.  Discard what you will…”., mom repeated on a number of occasions, with that cadence...

ETERNAL BASEBALL

by Ron Sokol | Jul 24, 2018 | Babe Ruth, Baseball History, Beautiful baseball, Columns, Eternal Baseball, Fans, Immigrants, Lou Gehrig, MLB, Tommy Lasorda

“Is there baseball in heaven?” he asks. She replies, demurely, “I ain’t goin’ otherwise!” Fans are often referred to as “the faithful”.  Many consider their ballpark of choice to be a Cathedral, Temple, or similar place...

SIZE MATTERS? YEAH, RIGHT!!!!

by Ron Sokol | Jun 2, 2018 | Astros, Columns, Fans, Immigrants, Jose Altuve, MLB

Baseball takes too long. Get a pitch clock! Just do 7 innings! We don’t need 162 games. Come on! It’s way too many! Reduce it to 3, not 4 balls! Don’t let them spend so much time conferencing on the mound! Bottom line, speed it up already! Ok….  Ok…I get it. Good...

BASEBALL, THE GREAT SOJOURN

by Ron Sokol | Apr 24, 2018 | Babe Ruth, Baseball History, Columns, Eternal Baseball, Fans, Hot dogs, Immigrants, Lou Gehrig, MLB

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!  Babe Ruth’s parents were German immigrants.  Joe Dimaggio...

THE INVENTION OF BASEBALL (or Sticks and Stones May be Fun!)

by Ron Sokol | Apr 17, 2018 | Baseball History, Beautiful baseball, Columns, Eternal Baseball, Immigrants, MLB

Possibly the most revered baseball historian of all time, Harold Seymour, stated very clearly: “To ascertain who invented baseball would be equivalent to trying to locate the discoverer of fire.” Still, there is curiosity and the desire to know. We all...
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