KINDRED MUSINGS
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We all have a window we look out from. Some times we meander. This place here is intended to serve as a hearth, or a park, a gathering place whether you are alone or with one or more others.
Ron Sokol, longtime newspaper columnist, blogger and author, welcomes any and all civilized as well as creative comments and remarks from you.
THE IRONY OF THE IRON HORSE
Why do you think they moved his locker to the Hall of Fame? I mean, a locker? Isn’t that a set-up for a one-liner? Irony is defined in Wikipedia as “the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for...
TO B (unt) OR NOT TO B (unt)
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous strike outs. Or to take bat against a ball ... Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. And enterprise of great pitch and moment. With this regard their currents turn...
BASEBALL, THE GREAT SOJOURN
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! Babe Ruth’s parents were German immigrants. Joe...
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...
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...
October 24, 2017
On April 28, 1989, let it be known that I actually walked above the ground. There are several witnesses, one being my mom but you will have to reach her upstairs, quote unquote, since she has since gone to the dugout in the sky. Hopefully, there is...
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