Happy Holidays!
December 25, 2025
Wishing everyone a wonderful and peaceful holiday season!
Tag: Baseball
“Opening Day,” by Cinzia
December 19, 2025
This piece is making me yearn for spring and baseball. Just 96 days remain until Opening Day 2026!
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Out on the diamond
a great place to play
I could watch those boys
hitting and running all day
Grab a seat in the bleachers
and shout out “Hooray”
out on the diamond
a great place to play
The shortstop looks restless
he flies to the bag
the catcher throws down
and he puts down the tag
the runner hears “out”
as they put him away
out on the diamond
a great place to play
The pitcher’s a lefty
and throws a mean curve
that last one was filthy
just watch that thing swerve
the three hitter K’d
slams his bat on the plate
out on the diamond
he swung it too late
The innings were short
but the game was a treat
as we watch the away team
go home in defeat
the best gem of April
is opening day
out on the diamond
the best place to play
Quote of the day
December 11, 2025
Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
~Walter Alston
Jeff Kent elected to Hall of Fame
December 8, 2025
Congratulations to Jeff Kent on his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame! Kent will be inducted on Sunday, July 26, 2026.
Baseball 🤝 Ice skating
December 7, 2025
I once wrote about baseball being played on ice during the 1860s for a brief spell. If you’d like to see what that might look like today, this team of ice skaters put on a brief demonstration of “biceball” in the modern world:
This day in baseball: Glavine signs with the Mets
December 5, 2025
Free agent Tom Glavine signed a three-year deal with the New York Mets on December 5, 2002 worth $35 million, with an option for an additional year that could increase the value of the contract to $42.5 million. The southpaw hurler would log his 300th career win with the team in 2007.
Quote of the day
November 30, 2025
We don’t have rings on our fingers. So I need to be better. Period.
~Bobby Witt, Jr.
Happy Thanksgiving!
November 27, 2025
To all my American readers, I hope you all have a restful holiday surrounded by people you love.
This day in baseball: Commissioner Landis dies
November 25, 2025
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis died on November 25, 1944 at Chicago’s St. Luke’s Hospital, just five days after his 78th birthday. Two weeks after his death, Landis was voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame by a special committee vote. This made him just the second person to have the five-year waiting period waived, after Lou Gehrig.
Quote of the day
November 8, 2025
[H]e’s like a mythical character to me, because it’s such a long time ago and he was God to baseball. I shouldn’t be compared to him, at least not right now.
~Shohei Ohtani on Babe Ruth
