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SOME VINTAGE VIN SCULLY, THE LYRICAL POET OF BASEBALL
KINDRED BLUE RECENT BLOGS
SALUTE!
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?" "Play Ball!" History says the...
COMIC STRIPS THAT PLAY BALL (or, so I’m a relic, so what)
"Who in their right mind gets the newspaper delivered anymore?" "I do...." "Oh, then you probably still like baseball too." "Well, yeah!" "Man, incredible, you are a true relic. Have they offered you a spot in the Smithsonian?" "Aren't you nice... For the record,...
SOMEONE SAID THERE’S A BASEBALL SPIRIT
Somebody said 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 who opens the gates and says: "Come on in everybody they're...
SO STRONG YET BROKEN
Awhile back I wrote an article here about Lou Gehrig entitled The Irony of the Iron Horse. The man who played in more consecutive games than anyone has a disease named after him that gradually dismantles and removes people from earth (in physical form anyway). Bill...
WHAT A RASCAL
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
WHO?
The incomparable Abbot and Costello routine starts with Who.... he's on first. "Who are you? Who who, who who...." The Who, the rock group, asked that very question in one of their well known songs. Baseball in fact is a Who's Who. One of the aspects of the great...
NAME THAT IMAGE
Would call this one: Never Gets Old. Cody Bellinger signing autographs for some future major leaguers. A while ago... early days of televising baseball. Even the image is black and white. Call this one: No lights, one camera, action! Confucius got nothin on this...
IT’S JUST A GAME, RIGHT?
It's just baseball. A game. Not life or death, by any means. Why then does it bring tears, at times? Just last year a possibly washed up major league player, who was sitting at home thinking his career may be done, was still being pushed by his dad to keep at it....
Baseballism
SHOEBOX TREASURES
Imagine a story on a small piece of cardboard, with a photo. A couple inches by a couple inches, maybe. And you spend quite a bit of time looking at it, front and back. You look at it many, many times. It is possible -- I don't think it can be denied -- that baseball...
THE PICTURE SAYS IT ALL
I write a lot here - of all the items I have posted on Facebook to date, this is the one that received the most likes, the most shares, and the most comments. And yes it is indeed just a photo. A picture of a time.
SAP, JUST PURE SAP
"No offense, but that's more syrup than I put on my waffle this morning..." That remark is one of my favorite comments about a column that posted on this web site. I am sappy. I don't want to be sappy, but it rhymes with happy, so I guess that's ok. And I admit, I...
AND GOD CREATED BASEBALL
"He was so inspired" "How inspired was he?" "He was so inspired he created the sun, the moon, the planets, the stars, oceans, plants, air, music, space, colors, animals, humans, insects, fish, rocks, mountains, prairies, ice, the sun, and baseball." "Wait -- wait a...
DO WE PUNISH JOY?
"CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES... COME ON!" -- Kool & the Gang When something goes well in the ball game, we might high five, fist pump, jump up, hug, yelp with delight, do a dance, I mean, there are a lot of options. But, wait a second... the bat flip is controversial? A...