Sometimes it’s not about runs, hits and errors at the ballpark. Sometimes it’s about the people you meet there. Or the ones who still buy you peanuts and Cracker Jack.
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Former Bonanza High and University of San Diego slugger, who specializes in long home runs, will be in uniform for the Chicago Cubs against the New York Mets in annual preseason games.
George Thorogood is a huge baseball fan. He used to play semipro ball. This is why the official logo of his rockin’ blues band looks like the front of a baseball jersey.
Last week’s column on Bob St. Clair and the undefeated 1951 University of San Francisco football team — “The Best Team You Never Heard Of” according to the ESPN documentary showing this month — generated a lot of email and phone calls from readers who remembered St. Clair or that Dons team. Or had a father who did.
THe 51s opening day starter is Noah Syndergaard. He’s this year’s Zack Wheeler. He probably won’t be in Las Vegas long, so catch him while you can.
You might not be able to get them on TV in Las Vegas, but the D-Backs show some love for their real hometown by donating $600,000 worth of uniforms to Phoenix-area Little Leagues.
Some people wearing business attire and hardhats (and winter coats) put shovels in the ground the other day in Nashville, Tenn. This is a telltale sign the Nashville Sounds are getting a new triple-A ballpark.
I wonder how Art Howe feels about this. That was one of the first things that popped into mind on Sunday when I read that Philip Seymour Hoffman was dead.
Tennessee. Nebraska. Arkansas. Clemson. West Virginia. Arizona State twice. Home and away. If I had to guess, UNLV baseball coach Tim Chambers isn’t all that worried about becoming bowl eligible.
Ken Gurnick and 15 other baseball writers blew it by not voting for Greg Maddux for the Baseball Hall of Fame as some form of protest despite his 355 wins and laundry list of other accomplishments.