Remembering Wee Willie Keeler Baseballology by Harvey Frommer - October 27, 2018October 27, 20180 With all the hype and hoopla about today’s mainly over-rated baseball players, with all the fuss about launch angles and shifts, “bullpenning” and instant replay over and over again by the non-stop talkers in the TV booths and on the field of play, it is refreshing to flash back to
Red Sox Flashback: The First World Championship Baseballology by Russ_Cohen - October 20, 2018October 20, 20180 With the Sox on the cusp of winning another World Series, with fans all over New England savoring the time, a look back to 1912 provides a marvelous historical treat. Business in Boston virtually shut down on September 23, 1912, as 100‚000 cheered the Red Sox returning from a western trip
Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball Baseballology by Harvey Frommer - October 13, 20180 On July 16, 1889, Joseph Jefferson Wofford Jackson was born into a poor family in Greenville, South Carolina. He never learned to read or write. By the time he was six years old, he worked as a cleanup boy in the cotton mills. By age 13, he labored amidst the din
How Far the Game Has Come Baseballology by Harvey Frommer - October 8, 2018October 8, 20180 With apologies to the great poet Robert Frost, the game was ours before we were the game’s. And the game goes on decade after decade and now into the 2018 baseball post-season it still continues as part of the fabric of American culture. Much, however, has changed in the national
YAZ, SOX, OCTOBER Baseballology by Harvey Frommer - October 1, 20180 Another October, another post-season, another rush by teams to win the World Series. So many have October baseball memories. LENNY MEGLIOLA: For Tom Yawkey, Yastrzemski was almost like an adopted son. And Yaz took advantage of that. He was, after all, the best player on the team. He had a director’s
The Greatest Baseball Team — Ever Baseballology by Harvey Frommer - September 6, 2018September 6, 20180 There is always the debate among baseball aficionados, experts, fans - -what was the greatest baseball team of all time? In my book Five O’Clock Lighting, there is provided for all the definitive answer, the 1927 New York Yankees, hands down. You could look it up: http://frommerbooks.com/five-o-clock-lightning-NEW.html When Yankee owner Colonel Ruppert's
Gone are The Days of the 60’s and 70’s in Major League Baseball Baseballology by David. W. Unkle - September 4, 2018September 4, 20180 When a baseball stuck to the chest protector of St. Louis Cardinals’ catcher, Yadier Molina on a pitch from reliever, Brett Cecil in 2017, there was obvious concern that the baseball was somehow doctored. The event was inexplicable by the entire Cardinals’ organization as well as Major League Baseball. Perhaps
REMEMBERING JACOB RUPPERT Uncategorized by Harvey Frommer - August 28, 20180 Owners come and owners go. Some have been hands-on and others have tended to their own affairs and let the teams they owned function led by pros. The Jake, the man who created the New York Yankee empire was so involved that he even took a broom from time to
MLB is Ramping Up Neutral Site Games Uncategorized by Russ_Cohen - August 16, 2018August 16, 20180 MLB has played a lot of exhibition games in places like Puerto Rico, Japan, and Australia. They have a lot more places targeted in the future but for now Williamsport, PA will be the next game up. The Phillies and Mets will meet for a Sunday in-season game. Tickets aren’t available
Fenway Flashback Baseballology by Harvey Frommer - August 15, 20180 The glory days are back at the Fens as the 2018 season heads down the home stretch. There is a lot of excitement about the real possibility of another world championship for the Sox. Royal and loyal rooters, though, still have in their memory bank images of a sad long
