by mike | Oct 3, 2024 | Aging, Baseball, Books, Fantasy, Ghosts, Magical realism, Movie Lines, Movies, Sports, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
A real baseball game on the Field of Dreams? Yes, it really happened, back in 2021. “Three years ago at dusk on a spring evening, when the sky was a robin’s-egg blue and the wind as soft as a day-old chick, I was sitting on the veranda of my farm home in eastern Iowa...
by mike | Sep 23, 2024 | Baseball, Books, Humor, Sports, Uncategorized |
The wonderful language of baseball must be quite extensive for author Paul Dickson to create a dictionary of nearly a thousand pages! Here are more of my favorites. CANCEL CHRISTMAS. To have something bad happen, or to acknowledge failure. For example, Mo Vaughan once...
by mike | Aug 26, 2024 | Baseball, Books, Humor, Science Fiction, Sports, Uncategorized |
In my comedy/science fiction series featuring cosmic bike rider Jack Miller, I created a number of singular Heavens, called Afterwards. Jack visited his favorite singer, Harry Chapin, in the Rock and Roll Afterward, his beloved German shepherd, Barney, in the Doggie...
by mike | Jul 29, 2024 | Baseball, Books, Humor, Sports, Uncategorized |
It’s not exactly a novel, but The Dickson Baseball Dictionary is one of the best reads that I know. The author, Paul Dickson, defines just about every word and phrase, common and obscure, related to the most excellent game in the world. If you’re a baseball fan, it...
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,...
