Baseball

If it’s truly time to grow up, give me another week. I’m not sure when I started playing organized baseball but 1962, as a 10-year-old member of the Dial-A-Car Comets...

He couldn’t sleep. It was understandable. He tried to get comfortable at ten o’clock, which quickly became eleven. The twenty-nine year old visitor from Pittsburgh faced the biggest day of...

Everybody remembers their first. Especially if you were a red blooded, apple pie eating, Yoo-hoo drinking American male growing up in the 60s. I remember mine. I admit I was...

This was supposed to be a Sunday Morning Coffee bye week. Then Mike Labanowski called on Tuesday morning. “Just wanted you to know, and it’s not public yet, that Maury...

We were overwhelmed last week with comments about Sunday Morning Coffee and our ode to Ibis. Thank you one and all. Your sentiments were so meaningful to Andi and me, and...

The New York Yankees, who play baseball to put themselves in a winning position, have put one or their employees in an unwinnable one. Or have they? Two weeks ago...

Bill Virdon was different from us kids growing up in the 50s and 60s.  We loved baseball and watched from the bleachers or on television or enjoyed the passion of...

Saturday night was a tough night for Tuscaloosa, Alabama.  Their football team, riding a 19-game winning streak and number one in the country for another day or two, got beat...

“All they wanted to do was take my picture and they were going to give me a new television set,” Jake Gibbs remembered with a hearty laugh. “Every day I...

Joe Nuxhall was too young to appreciate it.  Satchel Paige wasn’t. Nor were the sixty of us gathered last weekend in Pittsburgh. The first time Nuxhall stepped into a major...

The conventional six degrees of separation would take a multiple of perhaps five or ten to find some commonality between me and a guy called Mudcat. Consider: Mudcat was 15...

Major League Baseball, specifically Commissioner Rob Manfred, you are confusing me. First you pretend to be the conscience of the sport. You decide you don’t like the new voter-reform legislation...