by Ron Sokol | Mar 20, 2019 | Fun, Humor, Uncategorized
With the season on the horizon, some of us have donned boxing gloves (ok, not really, baseball mitts), but we’re ready. We are REDDDDDDD DEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! Just in case anyone asks what’s such a big deal about baseball, that slow, yawner, boring game...
by Ron Sokol | Mar 13, 2019 | Babe Ruth, Uncategorized
Julia Ruth Stevens died recently at the great age of 102 (which is less than one seventh of the home runs hit by her adoptive father George Herman Ruth). Babe married his second wife, actress and model Claire Merritt Hodgson in 1929, and adopted Julia thereafter. She...
by Ron Sokol | Mar 9, 2019 | Pitchers, Uncategorized
Ulnar collateral ligament reconstructions, also known as Tommy John surgery. The first was in 1974, thank you to the remarkable Dr. Franklin Jobe whose patient was indeed Tommy John. When Dr. Jobe did the surgery back then, he projected about a 1 in 100 chance of...
by Ron Sokol | Mar 5, 2019 | Poems, Uncategorized
Could be a girl you know In fact may just be. Could be anyone’s kid you know probably is. Gotta watch as the kid takes swings stands ready to hit that pitch to maybe you know well make you stand up and shout wildly like a crazed person. But, when did being a...
by Ron Sokol | Feb 26, 2019 | Spring Training, Uncategorized
Drabble by Kevin Fagan for February 25, 2019
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,...
