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For Our Baseball Fans

| July 1, 2016 | 13 Comments
For Our Baseball Fans

This is for our baseball fans.  IMO it’s apropos considering that today begins the 4th of July weekend. ESPN has been running a series this year.  It’s a fictionalized “diary” by Yankees’ pitcher Myles Thomas concerning their 1927 season. Thomas was a real individual.  As various baseball sites show, he was a journeyman and not […]

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Yogi Berra Passes

| September 23, 2015 | 25 Comments
Yogi Berra Passes

D-Day veteran and baseball great Yogi Berra died yesterday. He died at home, of natural causes. As noted in this article from earlier this year, he was 90.  Fittingly, his passing came on the 69th anniversary of his major league debut. Berra was a Navy vet – he was gunner’s mate during World War II. […]

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Quietly Doing the Right Thing

| July 24, 2015 | 30 Comments
Quietly Doing the Right Thing

Most regular TAH readers know I’m a baseball fan.  Indeed, one of many things that p!ssed me off at the now-4-years-deceased Usama bin Laden is that my post-9/11 mobilization required me to travel on 4 November 2001 – the night of game 7 of the 2001 World Series. At the time, I was an Arizona […]

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Happy 90th, Mr. B

| May 12, 2015 | 14 Comments
Happy 90th, Mr. B

Today is the 90th birthday of a gentleman named Lawrence Peter Berra.  He’s still with us. If the name doesn’t ring a bell – maybe that’s because most people know him by his nickname vice his given name. That nickname? “Yogi”. Berra’s baseball career really needs no rehashing among baseball fans.  He’s a in the […]

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More Comedy from the 9th Circus

| April 24, 2015 | 12 Comments
More Comedy from the 9th Circus

Well, the      gang of fools called the Ninth Circus Clowns of Unreal       “august body” called the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals out on the Left Coast has given us all some new comic relief. It seems that a 5-member panel of that       clown Krewe      group of distinguished jurists has decided that it’s OK to be […]

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84 Years Ago Today . . .

| April 2, 2015 | 8 Comments
84 Years Ago Today . . .

. . . Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig struck out.  That happened in an exhibition game against the Chattanooga Lookouts while the Yankees were en route home from spring training to start the season. In and of itself, that would be only mildly interesting.  However, the pitcher who struck them out was a bit unusual. […]

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Rest in Peace, “Flip”

| March 16, 2015 | 8 Comments
Rest in Peace, “Flip”

Another bit of America’s past is gone. Al Rosen – MLB star of the 1950s, and later team executive with the Yankees, Astros, and Giants – passed away last Friday. He was 91. Rosen was no slouch as a player. He played for 10 years, all with the Cleveland Indians organization. He had a career […]

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Congratulations to the 2015 Baseball HOF Inductees

| January 8, 2015
Congratulations to the 2015 Baseball HOF Inductees

Congratulations to Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, John Smoltz, and Craig Biggio. They are this year’s inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Craig Biggio was an excellent catcher and infielder, making the NL All-Star team at both positions, and is fully worthy of HOF membership. He ended his career in the same place it began […]

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