“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...
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18th Jul. 2021
Sunday Morning Coffee — July 18, 2021 — Still Kids At Heart
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...
20th Jun. 2021
Sunday Morning Coffee — June 20, 2021 — One Cool ‘Cat
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...
28th Feb. 2021
Sunday Morning Coffee — February 28, 2021 — A Screw Salesman, A Crane Operator and A World Series MVP
In the 1970s, when Bucky Dent played professional baseball, the world was different. There was no MLB Network, ESPN, Fox Sports or even a Peacock. Umpires’ decisions, right or wrong,...
24th Jan. 2021
Sunday Morning Coffee — January 24, 2021 — “Someone Was Going To Throw That Home Run Pitch”
If Hank Aaron would have broken Babe Ruth’s career home run record at any time other than a Monday night or a Saturday afternoon most of the country would have...
This is a story about how the saver got saved. About the baseball relief pitcher who had to go to the bullpen for help. The right-hander who made a career...
28th Jun. 2020
Sunday Morning Coffee — June 28, 2020 — Flying First Class
Michael Blazek loves flying first class. We all do. For Blazek, a seat in the front of the airplane means career success. Now, barring something totally unexpected, it won’t happen...
Pittsburgh Pirates fans always believed when Steve Blass left the game of baseball there would never be another one played. So far, they’re right. “I’m guessing the powers above said...
Sports, the toy department of life, has a way of keeping things real. For me, coronavirus wasn’t real until this week. Oh sure, my portfolio was taking a pounding but...
We have very little in common. Come to think of it, we actually have a lot in common. Vernon Law will celebrate his 90th birthday next month. I’ll be 68...
Move over Rickey Henderson, Lou Brock and Vince Coleman. You too Tim Raines, Maury Wills and Ty Cobb. Open the door for Tony Thomas. You remember Thomas, don’t you? Drafted...
