Because guys who started the baseball season pitching for the 51s apparently will get you only so far, this World Series might be remembered as being more anticlimactic than memorable.
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If there’s anything most Las Vegas sports fans can agree upon, it’s that Sam Boyd Stadium and Cashman Field stink, and that hopefully there will be places to park at the new hockey arena.
A desperate Cubs fan makes a call to the bullpen for Vegas performer Just!n Tranz and asks if he can cure pitcher Jon Lester of his fear of throwing to first base. “I would simply get him to believe he was throwing to home base,” Tranz says.
Las Vegan Ken Korach called the A’s-Royals instant classic on radio. “It was just one of those games that took you with it, that took you for a ride,” he said.
It is difficult not to mention the city of Williamsport, Pa., and Little League baseball in the same sentence — usually the first sentence.
The old American Legion baseball field in Crown Point, Ind., did not have a right-field wall, or even a fence made of chain link. It had a corn field.
In advance of the 51s opening their 32nd Pacific Coast League season here tonight, the team held its annual media day on Tuesday. Of the six or so media who showed up, four or so asked manager Wally Backman if the 51s would be good enough to return to the Pacific Coast League playoffs.