MLB Legacies: Jason Giambi
Giambi – the records, the scandals, and life after baseball The baseball season is well and truly underway and we are starting to get a good idea of who might be going home with the World Series in November. It has been an interesting season and it has been great to have fans fully back […]
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 […]
Does Cleveland Need Brad Hand to Close Out the Season?
Tribe’s pitcher Brad Hand has not pitched in a game since September 8th as he was dealing with a tired left arm. Fortunately, the Indians have incredible depth in their pitching roster. The question is will the Tribe’s Skipper be bold enough to entrust someone other than Hand for the remaining games? The immediate answer […]
Bauer OUTage
The debate on whether Indians starting pitcher Trevor Bauer would be traded ended late Tuesday in a blockbuster deal. Tribe fans everywhere this morning are torn, many love the deal while others wanted to keep Bauer. However, the organization’s front office took advantage of getting a large haul in return for Bauer just at the […]
As Trade Rumors Swirl, So Do Trevor Bauer’s Emotions
There have been rumblings of a possible trade, involving Trevor Bauer, as the July 31st deadline approaches. Fans have debated the pros and cons of keeping him. However, his meltdown when he was taken out of the game against the Royals, became instant chatter all through the league. Bauer was charged with a season-high-tying eight […]
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 […]
Book Review: Dealing
Many other books by well-known Northeast Ohio journalist Terry Pluto have been reviewed on this site before and this one is no different in terms of its entertainment value. In Dealing: The Cleveland Indians’ New Ballgame (Inside the Front Office and the Process of Rebuilding a Contender), Pluto takes readers through the steps it took […]
Book Review: Free Byrd
Paul Byrd was a journeyman Major Leaguer who played 14 seasons for 7 different teams, but just like everyone, he has a story to tell. This story is told in his book Free Byrd: The Power of a Liberated Life. This 219-page work details the life of the major leaguer as well as how his […]
Kershaw Is MLB’s Only Hope to Have a 20 Game Winning Pitcher this Season
With the end of the 2017 MLB regular season close to an end, it’s time to take a look at the season and review some of the interesting stats and try to guess where things will end up when the season finishes. While this won’t affect the betting odds of the baseball game, it does shed […]
World Series Odds as we enter September
It just so happens, every year I am asked at about this time in the season who I think will make the playoffs and what are the odds of those teams making it to the World Series. So without further ado, here are my predictions entering September … The American League In the American League […]
The top 3 MLB Championship picks for 09/02/17
As the most part of the tournament is over, there are still quite some matches left for the baseball lovers which cannot be missed. with a lot of great matches in the ongoing week, another Sunday is coming where you can actually witness some of the greatest matches of this tournament. More than anything, you […]
Book Review: Omar!
For Indians fans of the 1990’s there was no one who defined the era more than Omar Vizquel. The gregarious shortstop awed fans with his plays with the glove, earning him nine Gold Glove awards by the time he published his auto-biography with Bob Dyer of the Akron Beacon Journal. As the book title eludes, […]
Book Review: Endless Summers
Author Jack Torry had seen many years of nothing from the Cleveland Indians and then, surprisingly, almost out of nowhere, in the mid-1990s, the team took off. Experiencing this rejuvenation led him to write Endless Summers: The Fall and Rise of the Cleveland Indians. The Tribe were a cellar dweller for so long that the […]
Book Review: Indians on the Game
Ever wonder what people actually involved with the game say about the topics we, as fans, discuss on a daily basis. Author Wayne Stewart must have as he set out to write his book, Indians on the Game. Presented as, “An inside look at baseball in the words of Cleveland’s favorite players,” Stewart spends a […]
Book Review: Our Tribe: A Baseball Memoir
Cleveland’s baseball team stinks, right? They are always not going to be any good, correct? There is absolutely no way they’re even going to make the playoffs let alone run of a streak of consecutive division titles. These were all things that many fans of the Indians thought in the early 1990s after experiencing decades […]
Book Review: The Curse of Rocky Colavito
Outside of Cleveland, even casual baseball fans may not know who Rocky Colavito is, but in Northeast Ohio there was a time that he was practically Babe Ruth. Colavito was a hard hitting outfielder for the Tribe in the 1950s. Before being traded away for Harvey Kuenn in 1960, he was solidly the fan favorite […]
Bob Feller’s Little Black Book of Baseball Wisdom
Ever want extra advice from a respected elderly gentleman? Well, if that’s the case, look no further. Head to your nearest bookstore and pick up a copy of Bob Feller’s Little Black Book of Baseball Wisdom. This book is comprised of a selection of advice from Feller on a variety of topics. It will no […]
Book Review: Whatever Happened to “Super Joe”?
Prior to the mid-90s there was no fan base more used to losing than those who rooted for the Cleveland Indians. That being said, there were still many who cared deeply about the team and its players throughout their years in the cellar. While these players never brought home a pennant, or even a division […]
Book Review: The Entitled by Frank Deford
Since baseball is so romantic, many have tried their hand at writing a novel on the subject. Perhaps Bernard Mulamud’s classic work The Natural, since turned into a movie, is the best known of baseball novels. However, after reading Frank Deford’s work The Entitled: A Tale of Modern Baseball, this reviewer has a new favorite. […]
Book Review on Handsome Ranson Jackson: Accidental Big Leaguer
Ransom Jackson isn’t the household name it once was, but back in the 1940s and 50s, Jackson was well known to those who followed baseball. During that time, if you followed sports, you followed baseball, so that meant many knew the man who they called handsome. During his ten-year career in the Majors with the […]
The Chicago Cubs’ Historic Journey to the World Series
The number that continuously haunted the Cubs was 108. 108 years, 39,420 days, or nearly a million hours represents the last time the Cubs were victorious in a World Series. The team compiled record highs that would only be reached a couple of times in the past century. The team won over 100 games for […]
American League Championship Series: Toronto Blue Jays versus Cleveland Indians
The first surprise of this year’s American League playoffs came when the Toronto Blue Jays quickly disposed of the top-seeded Texas Rangers 3-0, followed by the Cleveland Indians sweeping the Boston Red Sox in the other matchup. Both teams have now had the opportunity to rest a few days and realign its starting pitching. […]
Does The Commissioner Of Baseball Understand Baseball?
It needs to be said and put out there: There is a chance that the Major League Baseball’s commissioner might not totally get the game which we call Baseball. Since January 2015, Rob Manfred has been manning the chief seat of Baseball. Manfred’s forerunner has been more or less a caretaker, conscientiously obeying team […]
What Dave Dombroski Needs to do to Fix the Boston Red Sox
Ben Cherington had a heck of a ride as GM of the Boston Red Sox. He came into an organization that was in shambles in 2011, acquiesced when ownership insisted on hiring Bobby Valentine to replace fired manager Terry Francona, booted Valentine after a horrific 2012 season, set out to rebuild the team in 2013, […]
The Beginning of the 2015 Giants Season
The beginning of a new baseball season always starts with great anticipation, and excitement. Of course, a lot of this also depends on how the past season ended. If it ended with your team on top by winning the whole enchilada, the World Series then, there is nothing left to ask for. The offseason may […]
A Little Fenway Park in Pennsylvania
(Reading, PA) – Berkshire Baseball has been in the midst of a $7 million facelift of the Berks County Youth Recreation Facility, a 22 year old, 118 acre youth sports complex in which the non-profit organization entered into a 20-year lease with the County of Berks at the beginning of 2013. The organization has already […]
July Reflections on the Cleveland Indians
What makes this year’s version of the Cleveland Indians different from those the past few years? They seem to have more staying power. Well, that remains to be seen, but at least they have the power to come back after getting knocked down. During the 2011 and 2012 seasons, the Indians shot out of the […]
Wamby Pulls a Dandy
A baseball history blog for kids (and adults too)…written by a kid blogger Hey baseball fans! I’m pretty sure you’ve all heard of a triple play before, but have you also heard of an unassisted triple play? If you haven’t, let me explain: an unassisted triple play is when one player on the field makes […]
March Reflections on the Cleveland Indians
One thing is for sure, the Indians are keeping fans and reporters busy this off season with all of their transactions. Not only has the Tribe done what they usually do, which is bring in some young talent to Spring Training and sign some players past their prime to see if they have one more […]
My Top Opening Day Performances
Hey baseball fans! Happy Spring Training! Yes, I know it’s not the official start to the MLB season, but today I will be rating the top five Opening Day performances in MLB history. (Note that I originally posted this forBig Leagues Magazine, a really great online magazine that I write for. Hope you check it […]
