MLB News And Rumors You Need To Know About
As the old saying goes, baseball is really America’s greatest past time. The game has changed a little bit over the years, but it remains just as exciting as ever. If you’re a fan of baseball, you’ll agree with this assumption. Just remember that a new season is just getting started. Before too long, things […]
How MLB Players Achieve Work-Life Balance
Professional baseball is a particularly demanding field of work. With everyone striving to be better than their competition, teams work day and night to perfect plays. This is especially true during the busy baseball season, where teams play a larger number of games than in any other sport as they battle to the finale to […]
Are Millennials Killing Off the Baseball Industry?
Baseball has long been considered the true American sport. For a long time, watching professional sports in general was a regular occurrence in the average U.S. household. People everywhere would go to extravagant lengths to support the teams they loved. And when their favorite teams were not playing, they still watched it for the love […]
BASEBALL LINGO: WHAT THE EXPRESSIONS MEAN, HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY (Part II)
Reactions to Part I were so effusive, that Part II is here for your enjoyment. Reactions always welcomed. THE WALKING MAN Eddie Yost played nearly two decades in the major leagues. His lifetime batting average was only .254, but that didn’t keep him off the bases. Yost coaxed pitchers into yielding I,614 walks to […]
Are Drones Benefiting or Harming the MLB?
Drones are here to stay. While they’ve been around for years, their popularity has grown in recent years due to the fact that they’re easy to fly, easy to buy, and they come with many different possibilities. Everyone from filmmakers to farmers are using drone technology. But, is it a type of technology that’s good […]
BASEBALL LINGO: WHAT THE EXPRESSIONS MEAN AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY (Part I)
ALL-STAR GAME The idea was conceived in 1933 by Arch Ward, Chicago Tribune sports editor. To give the fans a real rooting interest, Ward suggested that they be allowed to vote for their favorite players via popular ballot. In perhaps no other game do fans have such a rooting interest, although there have been a […]
Why We Need More Diversity in Baseball
Baseball has long been known as the great American pastime; and like other sports in the U.S., diversity in teams has increased over the last several decades to include the best players. Among Major League Baseball teams, almost 40 percent of players are not white, which truly represents the melting pot that is the U.S. […]
Sad Story of Shoeless Joe Jackson
Who Belongs In the Baseball Hall of Fame This year of 2019 is the 100th anniversary of the “Black Sox” scandal. This article comes from the Frommer vault On July 16, 1889, Joseph Jefferson Wofford Jackson was born into a poor family in Greenville, South Carolina. He never learned to read or write. By […]
The Wizards of East St. Louis
By Tony Samboras Every once in a while, something happens in sports that simply defies logic. As sports fans, we have all been indoctrinated to believe that the best teams have the best players and are able to pack the stats on the way to a league championship. It’s hard to imagine the New England […]
The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Professional Baseball
Technological developments have played a central role in the transformation of the world as we know it. Innovations that would have been considered outlandish a couple decades ago — such as artificial intelligence (AI) — are becoming mainstays in modern life. For example, worldwide investment in machine learning and AI is expected to reach over […]
Baseball Saved a Nation in 1941
By Tony Samboras In 1941, the entire world was in turmoil. World War II was under way and the Germans were advancing on all fronts. America was sitting on the sidelines but hardly obscured by the seriousness that was unfolding on the other side of the pond. At the point when tensions were hitting a […]
Remembering Robby (Part 3)
Major League Baseball rightfully celebrates Jackie Robinson Day every April 15, the day he broke the color barrier in 1947. I met my all-time favorite player twice –once as a teenager and then as an adult. Both moments still stay with me. HARVEY FROMMER: When school was out, I sometimes went around with my father […]
REMEMBERING “ROBBY” (Part II)
Wonderful reactions to Part I, so here as we approach “Jackie Robinson Day” in Major League Baseball is Part II. Enjoy. Growing up Years Jerry and Mallie Robinson were impoverished sharecroppers who lived in Cairo, Georgia. Jerry deserted the family six months after Jackie was born in 1919. Mallie, strong, religious, family oriented moved her […]
Why are Keuchel and Kimbrel still Unsigned?
Does anyone recall a stranger off season than the one we just completed? If you do, please share your memory of it and what made it SO strange in the comments below and refresh our minds! When the off season began last fall, I wonder if any of the online sports betting sites could have […]
REMEMBERING “ROBBY” (Part I)
There will be a lot of hype and hoopla, praise and stock taking this year of 2019 which marks, the 100th anniversary of Jack Roosevelt Robinson’s birth. April 15 is a marker day in baseball – the dramatic day he broke baseball’s color line in 1947. I have written about so many illustrious sports figures. […]
Jerez doesn’t forget where he came from
By Scott Mammoser Walking through the streets of Cien Fuegos, the barrio of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, everyone knows Santiago Esquea as “Chago.” He arrives at the ballpark where roughly 350 players dream of making the Big Leagues one day. There are four categories of teams in the Liga Portiva, ages 9-10, 11-12, […]
Ichiro Suzuki: one more legend to hang his glove
One of the greatest careers in Major League Baseball history reached an emotional conclusion in Tokyo, Japan on Thursday. Ichiro Suzuki bid farewell in front of his home fans after nearly three decades in the professional game, following a 5-4 win for Seattle Mariners over Oakland Athletics, leaving behind an unrivalled legacy and a series […]
The Use of Virtual and Augmented Reality in Baseball Training
by Frankie Wallace When we talk about technology in the sports arena, it’s often about how new inventions are used for entertainment purposes. Up-to-date technology is consistently being integrated into stadiums and sports arenas around the country, and attending any professional sports event will prove that to you. These inventions help to broadcast games to […]
1927: New York Yankees, Spring Training Flashback
1927: New York Yankees, Spring Training Flashback. Another spring, another spring training for the Yankees of New York. All of them have had special meaning for baseball’s greatest franchise. Perhaps none was more special than for the ’27 team, best in baseball history. Comfortable among the high and mighty or the ordinary, […]
REMEMBERING REGGIE JACKSON
“He’d give you the shirt off his back. Of course, he’d call a press conference to announce it.” – Catfish Hunter “Off the record, he’s a piece of shit.” –Billy Martin Out of the blue the man who once seemingly made headlines all the time came out of the shadows recently to dominate baseball pages […]
PANAMA WINS 2019 CARIBBEAN WORLD SERIES
BY ISMAEL NUNEZ At one point there was thought of canceling the 2019 Caribbean World Series as viewed the political turmoil-taking place in Venezuela where it was to be originally held for 2019. Then last minute switched to Panama! For the country it was a blessing! They had Three Things in their favor! […]
2019 CARIBBEAN WORLD SERIES! Something to watch!
By Ismael Nunez Sure everyone knew for sure New England Patriots were going win their 6th Super Bowl, to add from what people saw, pieces written online the half-time show wasn’t all that. Yet for many Latin Americans like myself there’s the CARIBBEAN WORLD SERIES 2019 ESPN reported, “January 24th 2019 due to the political unrest […]
Which Has Better Pay Off: Baseball Betting or The Lottery?
Gambling: Risk vs. Reward Gambling is all about risk. It’s about placing your hard-earned money on a set outcome that usually isn’t likely to happen. Whether its a game in the casino, a gambling event online or betting between friends on a game of chance, the odds are almost never in your favor. So, […]
THE BOSS: GEORGE STEINBRENNER
“If things go right, they’re his team. If things go wrong, they’re your team. His favorite line is, ‘I will never have a heart attack. I give them.’” -Bob Watson, former Yankee GM With the recent unfair turn down of his admission to the Baseball Hall of Fame, one can only wonder what “the Boss” […]
“You Could Look It Up”
With baseball’s hot stove heated up, with fans of the game getting antsy about what their favorite teams will do, here are a few nick-names and expressions starting with “W” for you to enjoy. As Casey Stengel was fond of saying: “You could look it up.” Here are a few starting with “W.” THE WALKING […]
Sports Book Reviews
This is the time of year for sports book giving and getting. Below are top choices from your favorite critic THE PATS by Glenn Stout and Richard A. Johnson (HoughtonMifflin $35.00, 365 pages) gets my vote for the best sports book of 2018. Detailed, carefully crafted, filled with fun, facts, passion, timeless and fabulous photographs […]
Baltimore Orioles Pitching Development
By Richard Cosgrove, The game of Baseball is changing as teams are now using science, numbers, and analytics to develop successful baseball teams. It started out with the 2002 Moneyball Oakland A’s but now has grown all throughout baseball. There seems to be a correlation between success and analytical-turned baseball teams to include Houston Astros, […]
Shoeless Joe Remains a Scapegoat
With the recent announcement of a new class of inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame, the skeletons in the closet come front and center once again. Pete Rose and and “Shoeless Joe” are becoming baseball’s odd couple – both ineligible for the Hall of Fame because of a lifetime ban, two of just […]
The Rivalry Continues: Red Sox Mockingly Sing Yankee Theme Song
Feeling it after winning another world championship, champagne soaked Boston players let it all hang out as some sang along off-key the Yankee theme song “New York, New York” that blasted forth from a boombox. It was just the latest salvo in the great rivalry – Yankees versus Red Sox. The first game at […]
Remembering Wee Willie Keeler
With all the hype and hoopla about today’s mainly over-rated baseball players, with all the fuss about launch angles and shifts, “bullpenning” and instant replay over and over again by the non-stop talkers in the TV booths and on the field of play, it is refreshing to flash back to those who played the game […]
