Written by Eliot Asinof and John SaylesDirected by John Sayles The game of baseball back around 1919 was quite a bit different from the game we know now. There were the aesthetic […]
Book Review: Iron Horse, Lou Gehrig in His Time by Ray Robinson – Simply Baseball’s Greatest Player
One player I admired throughout my life was Lou Gehrig. This is despite my distaste for all things New York Yankee as he was one stalwart who seemed to share the same […]
Book Review: One Pitch Away by Mike Sowell – What Happened During & After the 1986 Baseball Season
Being a New York Mets fan, the 1986 baseball season was the ultimate high in my life. I say that even having had three children, that’s how much of a fanatic I […]
2021 Road Trip Day 4: Tinley Park, IL to Waterloo, IA – Geocaching, Star Trek, and Baseball
So many places to see, so little time…. Initially, my outline had me staying in Davenport, IA overnight. I didn’t make it that far, so I still had to get through all […]
Movie Review: A League of Their Own – There’s No Crying In Baseball…..
Written by Kim Wilson, Kelly Candaele, Lowell Ganz, and Babaloo MandelDirected by Penny Marshall Having watched movies such as Far From Heaven and Mona Lisa Smile lately, it was very refreshing to […]
Book Review: The Pitcher’s Mom by Heather Choate Davis – Overcoming Challenges in a Baseball Journey
This came up as suggested reading in my Kindle Unlimited account. I was anticipating a story of a mother shadowing her son’s career as a professional baseball player, from the early years […]
Movie Review: For Love of the Game – Capturing the Spirit of Baseball
Written by Michael Shaara and Dana StevensDirected by Sam Raimi I’ve been a baseball fan all my life, and a diehard Mets fan all that time. There are few films about baseball […]
Book Review – Doc: A Memoir by Dwight Gooden and Ellis Henican – A Mets Fan’s Reflection on Dwight Gooden’s Struggles
I’ve been a Mets fan for as long as I can remember. I have a vague memory of watching a baseball game very young, on my parents’ black and white television in […]
Tom Seaver 1944-2020
Our heroes are slowly dying. I guess I’m at that age where that’s starting to happen. There have been a few deaths over the years that have left me stunned; people who […]
Corona Virus Diaries – July 24, 2020
We had our first Corona Virus death in the county on Wednesday. All we know was it was a male under 60 years old and not connected to a nursing home. Our […]
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