All Entries in the "Historical" Category
Best Ever D-backs By Position
As we approach the end of 2009, it is a good time for the fans to reflect on their team’s best players of the decade. Since the Arizona Diamondbacks have only been around for a dozen years, it makes more sense in their case to evaluate the best players in franchise history. Here they are, [...]
The Close of A New Season At New Stadiums
By Reed Terry
For sports enthusiasts visiting New York in October, it is definitely the best time to attend a Mets or Yankees game, especially because both these teams have moved out into brand new, high tech stadiums. As the Major League Baseball season gets ready for the post-season, the Yankkees will kick [...]
10 Reasons the Angels will be in the ALCS
The Angels are headed to the ALCS, after they finally defeat their traditional post season nemesis, the Boston Red Sox. Bet the house on it.
Granted, it’s hard to come up with a solid baseball-based argument to support that bold statement. The Red Sox have owned the Angels in the post season since Dave [...]
SPBA: If You Blinked, You Missed It!
Senior Professional Baseball Association
Back in the winter of 1989, former minor leaguer and Colorado real estate guru Jim Morley founded the Senior Professional Baseball Association after seeing the success of the Senior Golf Tour. After all, baseball is America’s favorite pastime, so why not play winter ball in the states with former major leaguers age [...]
Baseball Scores, But Game Suspended
A guest article by Charles S. Farrell from the DRSEA Informer
Volume II, Issue 19: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment
Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association got a split decision recently when a U.S. federal court of appeals ruled that federal agents went too far in seizing urine [...]
The Curse of the American League
Image by Keith Allison via Flickr
At this point, we have to begin to discuss the possibility of an official curse – for the third time in four years one of the American League’s elite homerun hitters has suffered a season ending injury in September, and for the second year in a row it may cost [...]
A Stephen Strasburg Warning for the Nats
Washington Nationals fans had been set up for disappointment all season long. No Nats fans had any reason to think the August 17th deadline to sign draft picks would be any different.
It was only a year after the club had failed to sign their 2008 first round draft pick, Aaron Crow. A circus of a [...]
Forgotten No More: The Story of Baseball in Baltimore
The history of baseball in Baltimore since the St. Louis Browns moved to the city in 1954 has been well chronicled. However, until now, the great history of baseball in Baltimore prior to the arrival of Major League Baseball has gone largely unrecognized.
That is about to change with the release this fall of the [...]
What If? The Lost Years of Williams, DiMaggio and Feller
The names Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio and Bob Feller conjure up images of greatness on the baseball diamond, but a lack of overwhelming career statistics often hurts these superstars when the discussion turns to the greatest players in baseball history. What is generally forgotten is that all three missed significant time in the prime of [...]
Jacoby Ellsbury Sets A New Red Sox SB Record
On Tuesday, August 25th, “the human spark plug”, Jacoby Ellsbury made Red Sox history by stealing third base for his 55th stolen base of the season. The previous mark was set by former first base coach Tommy Harper who had secured the record over the past 35 years, but he knew Ellsbury was going to [...]
