When former New York Yankees pitcher Jim Bouton told baseball fans everywhere that their beloved hero, Mickey Mantle, was a drinking, partying womanizer who loved to look up the skirts of the girls in the stands, many fans were outraged. Bouton published his daily thoughts of the 1969 season in the book Ball Four. Fans [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Remembering Kirby Puckett’s Career
Posted in Baseball, tagged kirbypuckett, minnesotatwins on April 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Hustle and Grind of Nick Punto
Posted in Baseball, tagged dangladden, minnesotatwins, nickpunto on April 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Nick Punto will never win a batting title. Not only that, but he’ll probably never bat .300, hit more than 10 home runs in a season or drive in over 50. He’s played more than 125 games twice in his 10 seasons in the big leagues and has a career slugging percentage of .326. It’s statistics [...]
Bring Back the Doubleheader
Posted in Baseball, tagged Baseball, doubleheaders, holidays on April 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“It’s a great day for a ballgame … let’s play two!” – Ernie Banks Unfortunately, there aren’t many days a baseball fan can watch two games. Sure, there’s the doubleheaders scheduled after a rainout, but even those are mostly day/night where fans have to buy two tickets to see both games. I remember getting the 1996 [...]
Hank Greenberg leads a nation, culture
Posted in Baseball, tagged Baseball, detroittigers, hankgreenberg, henryford, jews, sports on April 11, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Hank Greenberg battled anti-Semitism through the 1930s and 40s to help represent Jews across the nation as well as the Detroit Tigers.
Opening Day Memories
Posted in Baseball, tagged alexrodriguez, johnmiller, KenGriffey, minnesotatwins, openingday, Raulmondesi, RyanZimmerman, ShaneMack on April 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Opening Day has become more of an event for me than Christmas. I look forward to the first day of the baseball season more than any other day of the year. The nation is baseball starved and there’s proof when PNC Park in Pittsburgh is near capacity. Rarely do I attend the first game of [...]
2010 Predictions From a Biased Twins Fan
Posted in Baseball, tagged 2010predictions, minnesotatwins, PhiladelphiaPhillies on April 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Opening day is Monday and I thought it would be appropriate if I gave a few predictions for the 2010 season. Keep in mind some of these predictions will be made with my head and some with my heart. I’ll start with my least favorite division and move to the best division in baseball. AL [...]
