Author Archive for David Allan
David is a fellow Bleacher Creature, you can find his work there by following this link. He has also written for RBI Magazine and a few other places as well.
Rollie’s Follies: An Interview with Hall of Famer Rollie Fingers
**The Quotes as presented are direct from Rollie Fingers courtesy of an interview that he was kind enough to grant me in conjunction with his new book.**
When people approach professional athletes, they are usually looking for a career retrospective or a biography. That is exactly what Yellowstone Ritter had in mind when [...]
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE ROSES
So once again Cooperstown, New York played host to thousands of baseball fans that flooded into the small rural town in upstate NY. On Sunday, June the 26th, two more legends of the game took their spots among their peers.
Jim Rice finally received what many of his team mates and fellow hall of famers believed [...]
Steriods, It’s Not All Equal!
On Monday night, July the 13th., we managed to see 7 of the best home run hitters in baseball and Brandon Inge get together in an attempt to put on a power display where batting practice pitchers grooved balls at 70—75 MPH and in turn the likes of Pujols, Fielder, Cruz, and Howard deposited them [...]
A Glove of Their Own to Warm IOC Committee’s Hearts?
1904…1936…1992…2005…2008…2012…2016?
The summer Olympiad of 1904 was the first Olympic Games to welcome baseball into the fold.
In 1936, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) removed Polo from the Olympic Games. Why is this important? Well, until baseball was voted out of the Olympics it was the last sport to suffer such a fate.
At the games of the [...]
Big Papi Comes Up Big in June
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So now that David Ortiz has found his stroke again, all the murmurs will start.
This will certainly mirror the talk that surrounded Jason Giambi a couple of years ago.
You all remember, don’t you? Giambi admitted to doing performance-enhancing drugs before the 2004 season, and followed that up with an 80 game, 12 home [...]
Interview With Former MLB Catcher Brent Mayne
Whenever you get the chance to talk to someone that has been there, it’s always special to see it through their eyes.
On June the 19th, 2009, I was given the pleasure of an audience with Brent Mayne, a 15 year Major League Veteran. My connection with Brent was made through a gentleman named Bob Salomon, [...]
