When I read that one Major League Baseball spring training game ended on a time clock violation, the Twilight Zone theme resonated — not to be confused with any twilight doubleheader. After all, doubleheaders have been deposited into the dustbin…
TAMPA, Fla. — Last week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed $35 million the state legislature had approved in the latest state budget to help build a spring training facility for the Tampa Bay Rays. “I don’t support giving taxpayer dollars…
In our post-everything century in what remains of the increasingly mad Western World, how is a sane person to distinguish between straight news and satire? Or just lunatic raving? It’s not easy, and it can be very stressful to try….
The nattering nabobs no longer gripe much about teams named after American Indian symbols, like the Atlanta Braves baseball team. The Washington Redskins had to give up that name, which frankly was indefensible, after trying to defend it until they…
Growing up in New York City, I started playing sand-lot baseball in Central Park at age 9. I collected hundreds of baseball cards — that my mom threw away (ouch!) while I was in the Navy, serving in the Pacific….
Jerry Seinfeld has a well-known bit pointing out the somewhat ridiculous nature of our allegiances to sports teams. We basically root for a set of clothes, the New York Mets superfan observes. With free agency and budget-necessitated trades, the players…
On May 6, 2021, Willie Mays celebrated his 90th birthday. He is a baseball legend — and arguably the greatest player in the game’s history. He had a lifetime batting average of .302, hit 660 home runs, had 3,283 hits,…
In a baseball game last week in St. Louis, Cardinals manager Mike Shildt brought in relief pitcher Génesis Cabrera in the sixth inning. Cabrera’s first pitch hit Phillie Bryce Harper in the face. New batter Didi Gregorius stepped into the…
Wow. That didn’t take long. The nation is used to Major League Baseball and other sports leagues rolling over for whatever phantasms the political and cultural Left comes up with. But now they do it at hyper-speed. President Biden had…