by Ron Sokol | Mar 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
by Ron Sokol | Jul 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
Four photos at the ball park the other evening, over the course of a few innings. The game was of interest, don’t get me wrong, but I kept looking at the sky. Not sure just what I was looking for out there, but my buddy next to me was talking, and I don’t...
by Ron Sokol | Jun 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
Stamina – the ability to endure, to keep going, to get a second maybe even a third wind. Nolan Ryan once threw 235 pitches in a game for the then-California Angels. It was not all that long ago, 1974. That was early in his career, and he went on to pitch for 27...
by Ron Sokol | Jun 12, 2019 | Baseball History, Uncategorized
So there’s a famous book “You Can’t Go Home Again”, written by Thomas Wolfe but published after his death. Maybe that explains the title. The Beatles sang a very touching song “Two of Us”, which originally was called “On Our...
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 | May 26, 2019 | Humor, Uncategorized
Did you say he flipped you off? You didn’t say that! Well this link speaks for itself… https://www.mlb.com/cut4/clayton-kershaw-s-son-bat-flips-against-him