It’s always one of my very favorite days of the year: Opening Day for Major League Baseball. For many in the colder parts of the USA, it’s a line of demarcation between winter and spring. For fans of the grand old game, the anticipation towards Opening Day is not unlike a young child waking up […]
I started watching the Masters at the age of 13, having taken up the game of golf a few years earlier. My first Masters was the 1979 classic in which Fuzzy Zoeller defeated Tom Watson and Ed Sneed in a playoff. Since that spring morning, I’ve watched the tournament every single year. For the last […]
In the last ten days, I have become afflicted with a neurological condition, one that doesn’t exist in medical journals, a condition that didn’t exist until the early 1990’s. I call it “Hillary Derangement Syndrome.” Ever since Bill and Hillary Clinton began their run for the Oval Office in 1992, many people have been infected […]
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 […]
How many times in Hollywood have we seen a good movie, a really good sequel and then the third installment is a dud? It happens all the time and it’s just happened in the Mitt Romney for President movie. For the first 26 months after losing to Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election, Romney […]
A year ago, the Boston Red Sox arrived at Fort Myers, Florida fresh off the buzz of their third World Championship in ten seasons. Two years ago, the Sox entered training camp fresh off the stench of a last-place finish in 2012: with a new manager and seven free agent signees, a perfect recipe of […]
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. […]
With Tuesday’s upcoming announcement of the Class of 2015 for the Baseball National Hall of Fame, I wanted to take a few moments to pay tribute to the Class of “Not Quite Enough,” some of the players who will no longer appear on the BBWAA ballot in future years. The game of baseball has flourished […]
It’s New Year’s Eve, the due date for the return of the nearly 600 ballots sent out to members of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) who are given the privilege and honor of voting for the Class of 2015 of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Of course, I don’t have a ballot […]
On the 2014 and 2015 baseball Hall of Fame ballots, as voted by the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA), there is more depth of excellent players than at any time since 1946, which was less than ten years since the Hall was created. Of particular note is the stunning and historic quality of starting […]