Take a baseball blender and mix together Kirby Puckett and Andre Dawson. What do you get? Vladimir Guerrero. Since 1996, Guerrero has been very quietly compiling a hall of fame career. You could say he played for a large-market team with his six years with the Angels, but he still managed to keep his career [...]
Archive for May, 2010
The Class and Talent of Vladimir Guerrero
Posted in Baseball, tagged andredawson, jimthome, kirbypuckett, losangelsangels, montrealexpos, texasrangers, vladimirguerrero on May 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Best of the Best: Greatest Games Attended (16-20)
Posted in Baseball, tagged albertpujols, bostonredsox, brianbuchanan, mikeredmond, minnesotatwins, NewYorkYankees, saintpaulsaints, stlouiscardinals, texasrangers, timwakefield on May 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
20 May 16, 2001, Metrodome, Twins vs. Red Sox If you’ve never seen a knuckleball coming at you, there are two ways to envision it. One is to watch the movie 61*. In the film about Roger Maris’s chase to beat Babe Ruth’s single-season home run record, Maris faces knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm. Director Billy Crystal portrays [...]
Best of the Best: Greatest Games Attended (21-25)
Posted in Baseball, tagged atlantabraves, billmurray, chicagocubs, detroittigers, millerpark, milwaukeebrewers, minnesotatwins, montrealexpos, NewYorkYankees, siouxcityexplorers, wrigleyfield on May 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Continuing with my greatest games attended … 25 August 9 2003, Comerica Park, Detroit, Twins vs. Tigers Strangely enough, the 2006 AL champs were one of the worst teams in MLB history in 2003. I believe the Twins won 16 of 19 games against the Tigers that year. This was one of them. Trevor and [...]
Best of the Best: Greatest Games Attended (30-26)
Posted in Baseball, tagged Ichiro, minnesotatwins, PNCPark, SeattleMariners on May 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I have compiled a list of the top 30 baseball games I’ve attended. I’ve done my best to consider the game and not the surroundings, but sometimes they can’t be ignored (i.e. PNC Park). Most of the games are at one of the worst ballparks in the history of the game which held the greatest [...]
Jim Bouton’s Ball Four
Posted in Baseball on May 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Having recently reread Ball Four by Jim Bouton, it’s hard not to share the humor and wit of one of baseball’s finest books. Ball Four was written during the 1969 season by Bouton, a knuckleball pitcher trying to get his career back on track. He’d spent the previous season in the minor leagues after beginning [...]
