Having now hit five home runs in his last five post-season games, I think we can no longer resist the inevitable: Daniel Murphy of the New York Mets should run for Speaker of the House. Murphy, a native of Jacksonville, Florida, is a Christian conservative and could unite the warring factions of the Republican party. He might […]
Category: Baseball
The Dark Knight Rises: Mets Win Game 1
The teams of tomorrow opened their 7-game National League Championship Series tonight and the New York Mets prevailed with a 4-2 win over the Chicago Cubs thanks to a spectacular start by Matt Harvey, who out-dueled post-season veteran Jon Lester, who owns two World Series rings with the Boston Red Sox. Harvey has been such a lightning […]
The Mets Lay Down Murphy’s Law to Beat LA!!
One year ago the New York Mets and Chicago Cubs lost more games than they won. In 2015, starting Saturday night, they will meet for the National League Championship Series to determine which team will represent the league in the World Series. Thursday night the Mets edged the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-2 with a gritty […]
The Slide and the Aftermath
On Saturday night at the start of the 7th inning, trailing 2-1 to the New York Mets, the Los Angeles Dodgers were facing the daunting prospect of being down two games to none in a best of five series. But then pinch-hitter Chase Utley delivered a base hit and a slide/tackle at 2nd base that may […]
The 7th inning and Clayton Kershaw
What a fun night for fans of the New York Mets last night, especially those of us who live in Los Angeles and had the opportunity to attend Game 1 of the National League Division Series against the Dodgers. You could not have asked for a better pitching match-up: the Dodgers’ started 3-time Cy Young […]
A Tribute to the Hall of Fame Class of 2015
Every year, in a small upstate New York town named Cooperstown, there is a magical day, usually in the glowing sunshine, in which legends of the sport of baseball are bestowed with the game’s greatest honor, induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Well, not every year. Two years ago, despite the […]
Is Adrian Beltre a future Hall of Famer?
This weekend, within a span of about 17 hours, Major League Baseball’s 400 home run club welcomed two new members. On Friday night, Texas Rangers 3rd baseman Adrian Beltre belted his 400th career long ball. Then on Saturday afternoon, in a fairly hefty drizzling rain, Detroit Tigers 1st baseman Miguel Cabrera slugged #400 of his brilliant career. Both blasts […]
The decline of African-Americans in Major League Baseball
What has happened to all of the great African-American players in Major League Baseball? A few weeks ago, on April 15th, as they do every year, all 30 major league teams celebrated the anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color line in 1947. Every player on every team wore Robinson’s #42 to honor this civil […]
Baseball’s Opening Day: Today and 30 Years Ago
It’s always one of my very favorite days of the year: Opening Day for Major League Baseball. For many in the colder parts of the USA, it’s a line of demarcation between winter and spring. For fans of the grand old game, the anticipation towards Opening Day is not unlike a young child waking up […]
Minnie Minoso 1925-2015
It is one of the strange quirks of the universe that one city would lose two of its sports pioneers, two of its ambassadors and two of its most beloved figures in the span of less than six weeks. On January 23rd of this year, the city of Chicago and baseball fans around the globe […]