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Ron Sokol, longtime columnist, author, and baseball aficionado, tries to keep the hits coming every week. Follow Ron on Twitter at @kindredblue1.
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SOME VINTAGE VIN SCULLY, THE LYRICAL POET OF BASEBALL
KINDRED BLUE RECENT BLOGS
All Those Distractions
Some times I take my eye off the ball.... game. Last night, Dodger Stadium (April 21, 2018) against the Nats. And a good friend of mine wrote a note that is so true. In baseball the whole game can change with just "one guy" all of a sudden turning the...
A LITTLE BASEBALL QUIZ
1. What was Yogi Berra's real name? 2. Harry Arthur Lavegetto is better known as? 3. Who is reported to be the tallest major league baseball player of all time? 4. Who umpired more major league games than anyone else? 5. For 2018 which is the highest...
THE INVENTION OF BASEBALL (or Sticks and Stones May be Fun!)
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...
BEAUTIFUL BASEBALL
Can I pull you aside, for just a tiny bit? Would you sit on the bench and let me, please, if you would, share something with you? It may well be that you agree. Here goes: I think baseball is beautiful. When you go to the park, it is a kind of...
REVIEW MISTER BLUE
A few years ago, ok quite a long time ago, our son's baseball team was in the play-offs. It was a big deal locally. We were one run down with two outs, the last inning, and our son up on deck just feeling his oats. The hitter before him topped a soft...
LOVELY EASTER IN THE PARK
Gotta love the ground crew (no foolin, although it was April's fools day). The sky rounded the bases gradually into night. Quite a big crowd, wow - all ready to cheer and hoot and hollar! But when it came down to it, the most important person was this...
OPENING DAY – IMAGES
Anticipation, excitement, gladness. This team that fell just one game short last year, is back, largely intact. So much in the air, and wonderful weather. Kirk Gibson, whose remarkable, historic, hollywood-story home run in 1988, throws out the first...
THAT’S REALLY GOOD MITT!
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...
THE TABLE IS SET
Someone said you know the season is about to begin and there's a baseball spirit who sets the table who spruces the whole place up and puts the bats there the balls the mitts the uniforms chalks the lines just right gets the umps focused and keen and who...
PINSTRIPES AND 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....
Baseball Poem
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...
WHEN IT’S OK TO BOBBLE
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...
WE GOT QUOTES!
After Don Larsen struck out Dale Mitchell to pitch a perfect game in the 1956 World Series, Yankee catcher Yogi Berra jumped into Larsen's arms with great joy. We all know Yogi sure came up with some remarkable quotes... but it was a reporter, not Yogi,...
