Opening Day is a month away
Posted: February 28, 2019 Filed under: 21st Century | Tags: Baseball, Major League Baseball, MLB, Opening Day, sports Leave a commentMore precisely, we have 28 days to go! Four weeks from today, baseball season will officially get underway.
This day in baseball: Olerud’s surgery
Posted: February 27, 2019 Filed under: 20th Century, This day in baseball | Tags: Baseball, John Olerud, Major League Baseball, MLB, sports, Toronto Blue Jays, Washington State University 2 CommentsAfter collapsing on January 11th following a workout, John Olerud underwent brain surgery for the removal of an aneurysm on February 27, 1989. Olerud, a left-handed first baseman at Washington State University, went on to be the Blue Jays’ third round pick in the June Amateur Draft.
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Quote of the day
Posted: February 26, 2019 Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: Andy Van Slyke, Baseball, humor, quotes, sports Leave a commentI have an Alka Seltzer bat. You know, plop plop fizz fizz. When the pitcher sees me walking up there they say, ‘Oh what a relief it is.’
~Andy Van Slyke
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“Baseball on the Block,” by John McCutcheon
Posted: February 25, 2019 Filed under: Pop culture | Tags: Baseball, John McCutcheon, music, sports Leave a commentFor me, growing up, it was baseball in the backyard, but this song does make me miss those games.
This day in baseball: Boggs’s arbitration case
Posted: February 23, 2019 Filed under: 20th Century, This day in baseball | Tags: Baseball, Boston Red Sox, Major League Baseball, MLB, sports, Wade Boggs Leave a commentIn spite of losing his arbitration case on February 23, 1986, third baseman Wade Boggs was still awarded $1.35 million, which was the highest amount ever awarded as a result of the process. The amount was a half million less than the $1.85 million Boggs was seeking from the Boston Red Sox.
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Need a new bat
Posted: February 22, 2019 Filed under: Pop culture | Tags: Baseball, Bil Keane, comics, Family Circus, humor, Jeff Keane, sports 3 CommentsAha! So that was my problem. Man, as pricey as bats are, you’d think they’d engineer them better.
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Quote of the day
Posted: February 21, 2019 Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: Baseball, David James Duncan, quotes, sports Leave a commentBaseball is not life. It is a fiction, a metaphor. And a ballplayer is a man who agrees to uphold that metaphor as though lives were at stake.
~David James Duncan
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