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October baseball. A team has finally reached a level they had not reached in over 15 years. They have a young core, including the Rookie of the Year, supplemented with some veterans, and a...

This is an updated version of a post first published in 2021. .......... I get chills and break out in a big grin every time I see the replay of David Bote's "Ultimate Slam" against the...

Last year in another publication, I predicted the Dodgers and Yankees would meet in the World Series. Both teams have been part of baseball’s biggest rivalries. As we know, neither made it to the Big...

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Remember Bob Walk? He only spent one year with the Phillies in 1980, and was the winning pitcher in Game 1 of that year’s World Series. “The Whirly Bird” produced an 11-7 record, and was presumed to b...

The Cubs won barely more than 1 of every 3 games during the final 2 months of 2021, going 20-36. Eight of their wins came in a 9-game stretch from Aug. 31 through Sept. 8. And the last of those 8...

Baseball players don’t necessarily have to be great to be entertaining.

Jorge Soler made history in this year's World Series. The Atlanta Braves outfielder became the first player to hit 3 go-ahead home runs in one Series. He hit a homer leading off a game and as a...

Thousands of people have died in California due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These are some of their stories.

share-square-913106 LOS ANGELES -- When center fielder Ken Landreaux caught Bob Watson’s fly ball for the final out of the 1981 World Series, Yankee Stadium was silent. Years of heartbreak came to an end. The Dodgers finally had beaten the New York Yankees on the World Series stage, and it was time to pop champagne. Forty years later, former reliever Tom Niedenfuer remembers the silence that filled the stadium in the Bronx as Game 6 concluded. He remembers celebrating in the clubhouse with hi...