Quote of the day
He’s got power enough to hit home-runs in any park, including Yellowstone.
~Manager Sparky Anderson, on Willie Stargell

He’s got power enough to hit home-runs in any park, including Yellowstone.
~Manager Sparky Anderson, on Willie Stargell

Today marks 20 days until Opening Day! While we continue to wait patiently, the Baseball Hall of Fame has created this fun page of baseball stats and facts that revolve around π. Read up and enjoy some pi(e), and regular season baseball will be here before we know it!

I love this rendition of the national anthem, performed by Carlos Santana and his son Salvador prior to Game 4 of the 2014 World Series.
As far as sleeping goes, you’re up and ready to go at six in the morning. Spring training was always a combination of relaxing and working, and I missed that quite a bit. I missed being around the ball field. A baseball. A bat. The smell of the uniform, you might say. Talking baseball. Seeing opponents as well as the Cubs.
~Lou Boudreau

The post of Commissioner of Baseball was offered to J. Edgar Hoover in March of 1951. However, in spite of being a fan of the game, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation turned down the job. Several owners had been dissatisfied with the direction of Commissioner A.B. “Happy” Chandler and hoped Hoover would bring the type of leadership they were looking for. Hoover opted, instead, to stay with the FBI until his death in 1972. Chandler would remain baseball commissioner until July 1951, and was eventually replaced by Ford Frick.

I have the days numbered on my calendar. Maybe if I stare at it hard enough, they’ll go by faster?

If you’re like me, you make an effort to keep an eye on your health and overall well-being. (Well, most of the time. I do have my eat-all-the-junk-food-in-sight days, too.) When it comes to ballpark food, obviously, the healthiest (and cheapest) option is to not touch the stuff. But I’ve had those days when I’ve gone straight from work to the stadium with no chance to snag a healthy, pre-game meal. Fortunately, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center was good enough to create this infographic to help us make better choices when faced with this dilemma.

Baseball is a good thing. Always was, always will be.
~Stephen King

Marvin Miller was elected as the first full-time executive director of the Major League Players’ Association by the player representatives on March 5, 1966. Miller, who had served as assistant to the President of United Steelworkers, led the MLBPA until 1982, and under his direction, the players’ union became one of the strongest unions in the United States.

Just one month until Opening Day. Who else is excited?
