by mike | Jul 11, 2024 | Baseball, Life, Sports, Uncategorized |
For me, a memory to end all memories, a baseball miracle from over six decades ago. I first presented this post in 2021. The batter standing at home plate was a second- or third-string catcher for most of his 14-year career, with a lifetime batting average of .233 and...
by mike | Jul 4, 2024 | Baseball, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Sports, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
This is one of my, ahem, R-rated posts, which first ran in 2021—during the baseball season, of course. Rich guy Roger Dorn (Corbin Bernsen) is the third baseman for the Cleveland Indians in the outrageous 1989 sports comedy, Major League. Dorn is also a philanderer,...
by mike | Jun 20, 2024 | Baseball, Fantasy, Movies, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
As I’ve written before, my two favorite movies ever are Field of Dreams and Frequency. Both are fantasies, and both are baseball-themed. This post is about The Scout, a lesser-known but equally entertaining baseball fantasy film. Released in 1994, The Scout did not do...
by mike | Jun 13, 2024 | Baseball, California, Death, Life, Uncategorized |
A bit of “retro” that I hope will never make a comeback. This post first ran in 2021, with the pandemic at its height. Year Two (for crying out loud!) of the freaking coronavirus pandemic. Sure, it seems to be trending in the right direction, and many more people have...
by mike | Feb 19, 2024 | Baseball, Books, Movies, Musical Theater, Sports, Uncategorized |
I don’t recall exactly when The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, published in 1954, came into the Sirota household. Maybe I picked it up at a library sale…a possibility, as back then I haunted the West Farms Branch (in The Bronx) of the New York Public Library....
by mike | Feb 1, 2024 | Aging, Baseball, California, Death, Life, Uncategorized, Writing |
So glad NOT to be in the cave anymore, although we remain cautious. This post first ran in 2020, during the heart of the pandemic. Day 11,587 of the Coronavirus Pandemic (give or take): feels like it anyway, right? We all want it to be over, but the reality is that...
