Every year, in a small upstate New York town named Cooperstown, there is a magical day, usually in the glowing sunshine, in which legends of the sport of baseball are bestowed with the game’s greatest honor, induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Well, not every year. Two years ago, despite the […]
What has happened to all of the great African-American players in Major League Baseball? A few weeks ago, on April 15th, as they do every year, all 30 major league teams celebrated the anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color line in 1947. Every player on every team wore Robinson’s #42 to honor this civil […]
It is one of the strange quirks of the universe that one city would lose two of its sports pioneers, two of its ambassadors and two of its most beloved figures in the span of less than six weeks. On January 23rd of this year, the city of Chicago and baseball fans around the globe […]
Earlier today, for the first time since exactly 60 years ago when Joe DiMaggio and 3 others were chosen, the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) elected four new members to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, John Smoltz and Craig Biggio will be enshrined into Cooperstown’s exclusive club this summer. […]
(written 9/3/12) Why a woman’s right to choose will NEVER be taken away… If you’ve been watching TV or reading about the presidential campaign, you may have noticed that there have been talking points about the Republican Party’s “War on Women.” It started early in the year with the nonsense over the ObamaCare mandate […]