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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...

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...

Thurman Munson died thirty-nine years ago Thurday.  It was August 2, 1979. Some from the younger set will ask ‘who was Thurman Munson?’  Others might recall the name.  But if...

The ink wasn’t even dry and I was asked the question. Actually, that’s not true. They don’t use ink anymore. But I still got asked the question. It was the...

I get knocked down by a cinco de bypass five months earlier, but I got up again. I get knocked down from cataract surgery six days prior, but I got...

An hour, maybe two from now, I'll step into the batter's box, wish the umpire a good morning, smooth the dirt with my back foot, give the catcher's right shin...

On Sunday we wrote about the book that I wasn't writing but wrote anyway. Then, a couple of hours after it posted I got this link from Gregg Kersey, who...

When former Yankee Fritz Peterson takes a few minutes out of his day to drop you a note, you're glad you did it. When the Dodgers' Maury Wills phones on...