by Ron Sokol | Mar 27, 2018 | Baseball History, Columns, MLB
Whoever came up with the Batman super hero, complete with cape, probably was not a baseball fan. Batman should be just that — a man and a bat. He doesn’t dwell in a cave. He comes up from the dug out, swings a time or two, pivots his neck from side to...
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 | Mar 14, 2018 | Baseball History, Bobbleheads, Columns, Eternal Baseball, MLB
And now a quote concerning the all important history of the bobblehead: “Bobblehead is a collectable doll… which has a characteristically oversized head that is connected to the body with a spring or wire and when the head is lightly tapped it would...
by Ron Sokol | Mar 10, 2018 | Baseball History, Fans, MLB, Photos
by Ron Sokol | Mar 7, 2018 | Baseball History, Columns, Fans, MLB, Pete Rose
IT’S TIME I could swear I heard this somewhere: “To err is human to forgive, divine…” I could swear I’ve heard that! But, if we are going to get particularly solemn, here is a quote from 1 John 1:9: “If we confess our sins, he is...
