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With no baseball season in sight… Try these documentaries
Reviews of Screwball, No-No, the Battered Bastards and more Continue reading
Segregating Baseball: Little Giants and White Stockings
The 1887 exhibition game that defined race relations in baseball. Continue reading
One and Done: The Newark Peppers
A relocated team in an outlaw league playing in a city never considered major league. Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, History, Sports
Tagged baseball, Bill McKechnie, Edd Roush, Federal League, Harrison Park, Harry Sinclair, MLB, New Jersey, Newark, Newark Peppers, Rupert Mills
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A Few Curious Bits of Baseball History
Play Ball exhibit at History Colorado Center Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Uncategorized
Tagged Babe Ruth, baseball, Brooklyn Dodgers, Colorado Rockies, Coors Field, Denver, Denver Bears, Denver Zephyurs, Dizzy Dean, history, History Colorado, Jackie Robinson, Joe DiMaggio, Kansas City Monarchs, MLB, muiseums, Nellie Fox, New York Giants, Stan Musial, Willie Mays
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A Baseball Fan’s Retirement Guide
There must be a lot of people retired, retiring and starting to see retirement on the horizon because there is no shortage of folks ready to offer retirement “counseling.” Most of it is financial or healthcare related. I’m going to … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Sports
Tagged baseball, minor league, MLB, retirement, sports, stadiums
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A Baseball Fan Memoir Chapter 5 – Money Changes Everything
Between 1991 and 2014 the cost of bringing a family of four to the ballpark for a major league baseball game increased 168%. That is based on a statistic called the Fan Cost Index which includes four average price tickets, … Continue reading
A Baseball Fan Memoir Chapter 4 – New Places, New Faces
I spent the 50’s in New York’s iconic and since demolished ballparks. The 60’s were all about Shea. And I started the 70’s drinking beer with my buddies at the “Mistake by the Lake.” In the 80’s and 90’s, largely … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Sports
Tagged Baltimore Orioles, baseball, Camden Yards, Metrodome, Minnesota Twins, MLB, sports, stadiums
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A Baseball Fan Memoir Chapter 3 – On the Banks of the Cuyahoga
As the decade of the 70’s began, I was a college student in Northeast Ohio. I had some time on my hands, a friend or two with cars, and an on-campus job that yielded a couple of dollars. That was … Continue reading
A Baseball Fan Memoir Chapter 2 – Coming of Age
As the 1960’s started I was a 10-year old in 5th grade. At the end of the decade I was in my freshman year of college. In 1960, the New York Mets existed only as a business plan on the … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Sports
Tagged 60's, baseball, history, MLB, New York Mets, sports, stadiums, World's Fair
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A Baseball Fan Memoir Chapter 1 – Childhood Heroes
The first seven years of my life coincided with the heyday of New York baseball. The Dodgers were in Brooklyn, the Giants in Upper Manhattan and across the river the Yankees were in the Bronx. All three won a World … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Sports
Tagged 50's, baseball, Brooklyn Dodgers, Ebbets Field, history, MLB, New York Giants, New York Yankees, Polo Grounds, sports, Yankee Stadium
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