Tag: baseball
member name: herbert l.
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February 19, 2009 04:46 PM EST --
As leadoff batter, Stanky steps into the batter’s box at the start of a game, and just as the pitcher begins his windup, Stanky throws up his hand, steps out of the batter’s box, asks for a time out. . . .
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March 06, 2008 02:55 PM EST --
(Continued from Way Things Used To Be 2)
MARBLE SEASON
Part 3
Of all the kids Blue Book called 'shopkeeper types,' the one I remember best was Cedric. He was two years older than . . .
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February 28, 2009 04:44 PM EST --
Eddie Stanky was quoted as saying that if it meant being safe on a close play, he’d spike his own mother. I’m not certain he ever really said that. Or if he did say it, whether he truly would have spiked . . .
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May 14, 2009 02:29 PM EDT --
During baseball’s golden years, the season ran from mid-April to the end of September and each team played symmetrical twenty-two game series against all seven other teams in its league, eleven at the . . .
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June 06, 2009 03:15 PM EDT --
Charles O. Finley abandoned Kansas City in 1968 and moved his Athletics to Oakland where their fortunes, but not their attendance, quickly improved. (They were replaced by the Kansas City Royals, . . .
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June 17, 2009 07:42 PM EDT --
I love the game of baseball, be it sandlot, Little League, minor league, women’s softball, or best of all, Big League. At the same time, I do not love the business of baseball or the way the new . . .
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June 04, 2009 01:01 AM EDT --
During baseball’s golden years, the teams were owned by men who treasured the game and dabbled at the business. In the 1950s the teams got bought by corporations whose executives treasured the business . . .
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February 07, 2009 07:08 PM EST --
After nine years making enemies of Giant fans as manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Leo Durocher replaced Mel Ott as manager of the New York Giants halfway through the 1948 season. To rub the . . .
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March 08, 2009 04:24 PM EDT --
Eddie Stanky and Alvin Dark complemented one another in the field, just as they did at bat and on the bases. In 1950, with them at second and shortstop, the Giants executed 181 double plays in 154 games, . . .
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May 04, 2009 12:51 PM EDT --
When I saw my first Major League game, baseball was known as “America’s Favorite Game,” and “The National Pastime.” The year was 1940 and there were sixteen Major League teams, all in the Northeast and . . .
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May 25, 2009 08:12 PM EDT --
After the Giants and Dodgers abandoned New York City and moved to California in 1958, the changes in Major League baseball accelerated. In 1961 the original Washington Senators moved to Minneapolis, took . . .
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March 27, 2009 01:32 AM EDT --
Baseball record books are filled with statistics on home runs, runs batted in, earned run averages, etc. but there’s nothing in them on the intangible factors of the game. For example--in . . .
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February 11, 2008 04:50 PM EST --
What started me writing was watching things disappear. The flowers on the dining table disappeared fast; the rubber plant on the radiator cover, more slowly. The gaunt woman in the black bonnet and . . .
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