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On this day, Toby Harrah completed his team record of 41 straight games reaching base, with a big day against the Boston Red Sox.

April 9, 2021 The mystery pitcher began appearing in my morning box scores during the second half of September 1980. Sometimes he was Valenzuela, others Valenzla, but every time I looked, he had zeroes next to his name. I couldn’t find him in my baseball card set, my Street & Smith’s Official Yearbook 1980, or my Complete Handbook of Baseball 1980. All I knew was that suddenly he was one of the Dodgers’ most reliable relievers, a rookie thrown into the fire of a three-way NL West race b...

Pitchers and catchers report. Spring training signals that winter and cold weather soon will be gone, and ahead are sunshine, warmth, hope, grass as green as a highway sign and road trips to and across Florida and Arizona. It means school will be out before long, summer vacations will commence and the wonderful rhythm of a baseball season will begin. And yet, right now, it doesnt feel right. It doesnt feel like spring training. Mostly because of COVID-19, which makes many inside and outside the...

Pitchers and catchers report. Spring training signals that winter and cold weather soon will be gone, and ahead are sunshine, warmth, hope, grass as green as a highway sign and road trips to and across Florida and Arizona. It means school will be out before long, summer vacations will commence and the wonderful rhythm of a baseball season will begin. And yet, right now, it doesnt feel right. It doesnt feel like spring training. Mostly because of COVID-19, which makes many inside and outside the...

The Deep South always has this fluctuating weather during the winter as one day it is very cold and clear, but then like today, it is rainy with all outdoor surfaces coated in a thin sheen of moisture that makes for a walking challenge on most concrete surfaces.  As the deer season is winding down at the end of the month, it’s been some type of hunt since October for our family and for their friends.  I was thinking about several weeks of inactivity there, but I noticed new turkey ca...