Trick-or-treat!
Posted: October 31, 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Baseball, Halloween Leave a commentHappy Halloween from the Baseball Attic!!
3 championships in 5 years is undeniably impressive
Posted: October 30, 2014 Filed under: 21st Century | Tags: Baseball, Kansas City Royals, San Francisco Giants, World Series Leave a commentCongratulations to the San Francisco Giants on yet another World Series victory. It was an amazing series, even if it did end in heartbreak for the Royals and their fans. And kudos to Madison Bumgarner on such an amazing performance throughout the series.
This day in baseball: A Subway Series, before the subways
Posted: October 29, 2014 Filed under: 19th Century, This day in baseball | Tags: American Association, Baseball, Brooklyn Bridegrooms, history, National League, New York Giants, Washington Park, World Series Leave a commentThe deciding game of the 1889 World’s Championship Series was played on October 29th, featuring the New York Giants of the National League and the Brooklyn Bridegrooms of the American Association. The Giants won the best-of-eleven series, 6 games to 3. As the annual competition between the champions of the National League and the American Association, this series proved to be the precursor to the modern World Series.
This day in baseball
Posted: October 27, 2014 Filed under: 20th Century, This day in baseball | Tags: Baseball, history, Joe DiMaggio, Major League Baseball, Marilyn Monroe, MLB, movies, New York Yankees, sports 3 CommentsOn October 27, 1954, the high-profile marriage between Yankee superstar Joe DiMaggio and actress Marilyn Monroe ended in divorce. Monroe filed on the grounds of mental cruelty, a mere 274 days after the wedding.
Quote of the day
Posted: October 23, 2014 Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: Baseball, Branch Rickey, quotes 2 CommentsA great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance
~Branch Rickey
“October,” by Hester Jewell Dawson
Posted: October 22, 2014 Filed under: Pop culture | Tags: Baseball, Hester Jewell Dawson, poetry Leave a commentHere’s a piece that was first published in 1986 in Stone Country. I haven’t been able to figure out whether Stone Country is a newspaper, magazine, journal, or what, but that’s not nearly as important as the poem itself.
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the high fly ball,
arches out above left field,
hangs there in the sky
outblazing the sun
while fifty thousand heads swings and cry
“Over the wall! Over the wall!”
then hold, fixed and dumb
as the ball drops
down and down, a dead bird
into a waiting glove
and there you have it: the song,
the flight, the perilous whisper of truth
or of love or possibly of faith
then the descent
and the end of the game