ADRIAN BELTRE JOINS HIS BROTHERS!
Adrian Beltre considered by many one of the most underrated ballplayers in Major League Baseball was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown NY. He’d be joined along with Todd Helton and Joe Mauer in July Class of 2024. Here are some of Beltre’s accomplishments. 477 career Home Runs, 3,166 career hits, and […]
2023 ROOKIE OF THE YEAR CONTENDERS
The early to mid-sixties were rough on the New York Mets. They began their history by setting the record for most losses in a season in the modern era with a 40-120 record in 1962. Over their first six seasons, they averaged 108 losses a year and only avoided 100 losses in the 1966 season […]
Highlights from a recent Jose Bautista Interview
Our friends at Betway interviewed former Toronto Blue Jay and bat flip expert, Jose Bautista at the following link. What follows is our favorite moments and our comments on them. On the season so far… Bautista seemed excited that outside of the top teams, there seems to be more parity across the league than there […]
The AL East reigns in as the toughest division in MLB
As we head into the All-Star break and just past the half way mark of the 2022 baseball season, there’s no real surprise here – the American League East division is by far the toughest and baseball division in the land. This claim is easy to make when none of the teams in the AL […]
Great tips for betting on baseball
Baseball is a sport enjoyed by tens of millions of fans globally. It’s also one of the world’s oldest sports, with the Major League Baseball (MLB) association one of the first sporting organizations in the world. With so many fans, there’s a lot of interest in betting on baseball and the MLB in particular. So, […]
MLB’s Top 5 Oldest Venues
We play it as children, we watch and listen to it as grownups, and we pass on our enthusiasm for baseball to future generations. Of course, baseball is a family tradition in the United States. This game is inextricably linked to us on a personal level, but you might not understand just how much is […]
Five of the Best Baseball Players in History
Baseball is one of America’s most popular sports, the popularity of which has quickly spread throughout the world. While it may not reach the global popularity of basketball, it is still pretty huge, seeing an increase in viewership in recent years. In America, baseball is one of the four most popular sports, managed by Major […]
In Scoring Position: 40 Years of a Baseball Love Affair
“In Scoring Position: 40 Years of a Baseball Love Affair” is a new book being released this week by Bob Ryan and Bill Chuck. Here is the official PR abstract for the book: A love letter to the game of baseball from one of America’s foremost scribes. Bob Ryan has scored every baseball game he’s […]
MLB Betting Guide and Betting Strategies
Now that we are finally past the lockout and uncertainty of the season actually happening, we are just days away from baseball season. Opening night is upon us, and with that comes making money betting on the MLB. OddsJam has MLB odds from over forty sportsbooks, including FanDuel and DraftKings. This screenshot above highlights one […]
Can you Place Bets on the Boston Red Sox from Massachusetts?
It’s baseball season again, that means one thing for fans of the Boston Red Sox – betting on games! In this blog post, we will discuss the best places to bet on Boston baseball games, as well as some tips to help you win more often! If you’re looking to place bets on the Red […]
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, Should He Be Replaced & By Whom?
Back on January 25th 2015, Rob Manfred became just the 10th Commissioner of Baseball after Bud Selig held the office since 1998 (although he was acting Commissioner since 9/7/1992). Manfred earned his Bachelor of Science from Cornell University in 1980 & his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1983. Manfred 1st began working for […]
MLB Teams to Look Out for in 2022
The Atlanta Braves won the 2021 World Series but who are the teams to look out for this year? Can anyone spring a surprise in Major League Baseball in 2022?
A Quick Guide to The World Series
The world series is an annual competition where the best teams from the National League and American League play against each other. This is a brief guide about the series’ origins and key teams involved. Major League Baseball (MLB) is arguably the biggest baseball league in the world, with the origins being as old as […]
MLB Veteran Todd Walker Inducted Into Northwest Louisiana Walk of Stars
After a saddening 2020, 2021 seemed like a great year to be a baseball fan! Significant events have occurred in the American baseball fraternity in the last few months. The 2021 MLB season got off to a great start with the D’backs reclaiming their game, rookie Tyler Gilbert’s record no-hitter, the Boston Red Sox stepping […]
What Surprises Will MLB Trade Deadline Bring
The trade deadline for Major League Baseball is 4 p.m. ET on Friday, July 30. Unlike in typical years, the league has advanced the deadline to avoid day games. If any teams miss out on registering a new player by then, they will have to wait for some big deals after the season. In this […]
Boston Red Sox Through April 17, 2021
After getting swept by the Baltimore Orioles to start the 2021 MLB season, the Red Sox have gone 10-1 including a 9-game winning streak (in tribute to late Red Sox Hall of Famer Ted Williams who wore # 9). After those first three games, Red Sox fans were already out for blood, saying how new […]
The Ultimate Red Sox “Mash-Up” For Kids
NEW YORK (Sept. 22, 2020) — The Best Ever Brief History of the Boston Red Sox is biographical and autobiographical, historical and humorous, educational and packed with images of baseball cards and online video references—with all roads leading back to one incredible baseball team, the Boston Red Sox. Written for ages 6-12 (and for nostalgic […]
Will Addition of Betts Put the Dodgers Over the Top?
After much anticipation and grimacing by Boston Red Sox fans, the hammer finally dropped on All-Star OF Mookie Betts being traded away from the Red Sox in what can only be termed as a salary dump. Much to the chagrin of the rest of Major League Baseball, Betts will be joining the Los Angeles Dodgers […]
The Boston Red Sox 2020 Team: who’s staying and who’s going
In this article I will give the facts about who is no longer an official member of the Boston Red Sox as well as the rumors I have heard floating around about potential off-season trade candidates. Baseball, like gambling, is based on Risk vs Reward! Who do you keep? Who do you trade? Is it […]
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 […]
SOX STUFF: GET READY FOR 2019 (Part I)
Excitement for all major league teams builds in the spring. It is a time of looking forward and also looking backwards. Herewith for your reading pleasure are some BoSox nuggets to savor. Enjoy… The “X” in Red Sox The Boston Americans became the Red Stockings in 1907, a name referring to the socks the team […]
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 […]
Red Sox Flashback: The First World Championship
With the Sox on the cusp of winning another World Series, with fans all over New England savoring the time, a look back to 1912 provides a marvelous historical treat. Business in Boston virtually shut down on September 23,1912 as 100‚000 cheered the Red Sox returning from a western trip by train into South Station. […]
2018 League Division Series
As we inch towards the 2018 Fall Classic, we have already experienced historic events! Before we could even get to the Wild Card games, the National League gave us something to talk about … not one, but two teams tied for first place in the Central and West divisions causing a game 163 for all […]
YAZ, SOX, OCTOBER
Another October, another post-season, another rush by teams to win the World Series. So many have October baseball memories. LENNY MEGLIOLA: For Tom Yawkey, Yastrzemski was almost like an adopted son. And Yaz took advantage of that. He was, after all, the best player on the team. He had a director’s chair in the Red […]
Who will win the World Series?
With the baseball season in full swing, attention soon falls on the World Series but who will be there and ultimately who will come out on top? It has been another year full of drama, twists and turns with teams competing for supremacy but can anybody stop the Boston Red Sox on their way to […]
Remembering Ted Williams: Selected Oral History
This is the centennial week of the birth of Ted Williams, August 30, 1918. The Splendid Splinter did it his way. From the Frommer archives please enjoy memories of those who had the pleasure of experiencing him. JON MILLER: “Geez,” they said, “We have this great left-handed hitter and he keeps losing home runs out […]
Fenway Flashback
The glory days are back at the Fens as the 2018 season heads down the home stretch. There is a lot of excitement about the real possibility of another world championship for the Sox. Royal and loyal rooters, though, still have in their memory bank images of a sad long ago time when life at […]
Rivalry: Red Sox vs Yankees
Throughout the 2018 season the Yankees and the Red Sox have kept their eyes on the ball and the standings as baseball’s greatest rivalry plays out again. Coming up another series between the two rivals, another head to head confrontation in the “blood feud.” Wa back then, as the story goes, there was a get-together […]
FENWAY PARK FLASHBACK
The joy and passion and full houses and winning ways now on parade at Fenway Park all are a sharp contrast to the way things once were at the little ballpark in most of the 1960s. There are still those around who recall that time, some with mixed emotions. Sam Mele: I came into Fenway […]
