by Ron Sokol | Dec 3, 2018 | Poems, Uncategorized
It’s your birthday and I wanted to get you something for all you have done for me (and a few others) But you act like you don’t know me You whispered in my ear for years And when I was younger you were speaking to me even sometimes as I lay in bed and fell...
by Ron Sokol | Oct 27, 2018 | Beautiful baseball, Poems, Uncategorized
Just a damn game come on! A ball pitcher a hitter catcher come on get real it ain’t life it ain’t death it don’t add up too much Fans come and go cheer boo eat exhort despair it’s all silly It don’t add up too much History is made you...
by Ron Sokol | Oct 13, 2018 | Baseball History, Beautiful baseball, Photos, Poems, World Series
The poems that have been written, the sighs of admiration, the amazement, the admiration. Leaves turn colors. We know this signals that Fall is here, and in a little while Winter sits with us. During Autumn we experience the awe of the change of seasons, and the...
by Ron Sokol | Aug 20, 2018 | Christy Wallace, Columns, Poems
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again. A baseball hitter might relate to this little poem. A baseball hitter, that is, in a slump. Speaking of...
by Ron Sokol | Aug 17, 2018 | Poems, Videos
A thing of beauty? It’s relative, right? If it is against you, well, that’s not good! Way back on July 12, 1920, under the title “That Double Play Again”, a poem was published in the New York Evening Mail. It became known as...
by Ron Sokol | Aug 4, 2018 | Baseball History, Beautiful baseball, Classical music, Eternal Baseball, Fans, MLB, Poems, Videos
Our intrepid research team (ok, yes, that would be me) has discovered that the kiss cam dates from California in the 1980s when big screens became part of the baseball parks and well… the rest is history… or her story… or well…. See, baseball...
