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 | 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...
by mike | Apr 19, 2021 | Baseball, Humor, Movies, Sports, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
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, which prompts his wife, Suzanne, to exact revenge by seducing the team’s star pitcher, Ricky Vaughn...
by mike | Mar 29, 2021 | Baseball, California, Death, Life, Uncategorized |
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 been vaccinated against Covid-19, including my bride and me. But it is far from over, and I choose to listen to the...
by mike | Mar 1, 2021 | Baseball, Basketball, California, Death, Life, Uncategorized |
Year Two-plus of the coronavirus pandemic. Well, it might be “plus” for most everyone, but for me it started for real on a day in early March almost exactly one year ago. Hard to forget: I had watched a San Diego Padres spring training game the night before and was...
