by mike | May 19, 2022 | Life, Sports, Uncategorized |
The Iowa Wave is still going strong! Performed by 70,000+ folks at every Iowa Hawkeye football game in the fall, the Wave honors children at a nearby hospital who are battling some nasty stuff. This post first ran in 2018. A relatively new “tradition” honors children...
by mike | May 5, 2022 | Baseball, Humor, Movies, Sports, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
This wonderful film was “based on a true story” from long ago, and I happened to be around long ago to witness it live. The 2009 film, The Perfect Game, was one of those “came-and went” movies that most folks weren’t even aware of when it breezed through their local...
by mike | Mar 21, 2022 | Basketball, Life, Sports, Uncategorized |
Oh man, this month promised Madness, did it not? But for my bride and I, it turned into March Sadness! Our two beloved basketball teams, the Iowa Hawkeyes and the San Diego State University Aztecs, both qualified for the Big Dance, aka the NCAA Division I Men’s...
by mike | Jan 17, 2022 | Baseball, Life, Sports, Uncategorized, Women |
Rachel Balkovec has broken through the domed ceiling of professional baseball in a big way. The New York Yankees had hired her in 2019 as their hitting coach, making her the first woman to hold that position full-time. And recently the Bronx Bombers promoted her as...
by mike | Aug 16, 2021 | Aging, Baseball, Books, Fantasy, Ghosts, Magical realism, Movie Lines, Movies, Sports, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
“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 when a voice very clearly said to me, ‘If you build it, he will come.’” Those words...
by mike | May 10, 2021 | Baseball, Life, Sports, Uncategorized |
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 34 home runs. The pitcher poised on the mound would win 363 games and become a first-ballot Hall of Famer. What happened...
