Chicago Cubs TV analyst Jim Deshaies said there were only two ballplayers savvy enough to draw an obstruction or interference call — the Cubs’ Javier Baez and “the great Tommy Barrett.”
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Despite mentoring superstar Bryce Harper and other major league players, longtime Las Vegas High coach Sam Thomas is coaching in the state baseball tournament for the first time.
About a half-hour after most in the Sunday afternoon announced crowd of 9,475 had left Las Vegas Ballpark, Aviators president Don Logan called his staff together for a group hug.
Bernie Carbo hit one of the biggest home runs in Boston Red Sox history, a three-run, pinch-hit shot in the bottom of the eighth inning during epic Game 6 of the 1975 World Series. In 1989, Sam McDowell saved his life.
Two consecutive Class 4A state championships have now been followed with an American Legion title, the result of Basic’s summer team having beaten Creighton Prep from Omaha, Neb., 2-1 on Tuesday night.
I always believed Pete Rose to be the little boy who keeps touching the hot stove, even though he has been warned countless times that such a decision will inevitably result in pain. I just don’t think he gets it. Or ever has.
A lot people, including young general managers and desperate guys trying to impress women in bars, are into baseball sabermetrics: WAR, WHIP, OPS, what have you.
When Kris Bryant was introduced at the All-Star Game and tipped his cap, the guy sitting alongside at Buffalo Wild Wings said the Cubs’ rookie third baseman must have grown a good four or five inches since the first time he saw him on a baseball diamond.
If Mike Bryant had seen this once, he had seen it a hundred times. Or a thousand, if you go back to Little League and Wiffle Ball: The baseball sailing toward the outfield fence on a long and high arc, easily clearing it, his son Kris breaking into a home run trot.
They once gave Pete Reiser last rites at the ballpark. It must have been after one of the 11 times he was carried off a baseball field on a stretcher. Just brought a priest to his side and had the sacrament administered by a man of the cloth.