Giants Hoping for 200 Playoffs

The San Francisco Giants finished the 2009 season only four games out of the wild card spot with a record of 88-74, good enough for third place in the tough National League West. They had a sixteen win improvement in 2009, and think they can make it to the post-season in 2010.
 
In order to do [...]

200 Move-up Year for Padres

The San Diego Padres finished the 2009 season in 4th place in the National League West with a record of 75-87. Not too great of a year, true but during the last ten weeks of the season, they went 37-25. That could be a fluke, or a sign of things to come. Being out of [...]

200 Could be Pivotal for Cardinals

The St. Louis Cardinals added veteran players to their roster during the ’09 season, and finished first in the National League Central with a record of 91-71, only to go three and out to the Dodgers in the playoffs. Could the “ageing” team have run out of gas at the end of the year? With [...]

200 Pirates Won’t be Contenders

The Pittsburgh Pirates have been going through a rough spell for the past 17-years. That’s how long they’ve sported a losing record, the longest in major sports in North America- and still counting. In 2009, the struggling Pirates finished in last place in the NL Central with a record of 62-99; second worst in baseball.
 
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A Baseball Shutout to Remember

The year was 1975; the date was September 16th; the place was Wrigley Field; and the “attackers” were the Pittsburgh Pirates-a savage bunch to say the least. They showed no mercy as they pounded pitcher Rick Reuschel, and the rest of the sorry group known as the Chicago Cubs. The witnesses (fans) were hardly settled [...]

Softball at a Church Picnic

Several years ago, after becoming members at a local church near our home, we attended a church picnic. Soon after eating hotdogs, hamburgers and potato salad, we started up a softball game. We had men, women, boys and girls all playing along with our pastor as pitcher. Being new to the church, nobody really knew [...]

A Baseball Glove for Christmas

One year when I was a kid, I received a new youth baseball glove for Christmas. I still remember how good the leather smelled and how much fun I had breaking it in. The only bad part was the wait for the weather to get warm enough to actually play with it. The three-month wait [...]

Christmas Eve and Spring Training

For most kids, not much beats the excitement of the anticipation of Christmas Eve. For those of us who are baseball fans, young and old alike, we are also looking forward to spring training just six weeks in the future. Six cold, gray, snowy, ice crusted weeks, unless you happen to live in the “sunbelt” [...]

Playing “500″ With the Gang

When we were kids on a warm summer day, and wanted to play baseball, but could only muster five or six kids, we would start a game of “500.” We would choose one kid to bat, and all the rest of us would go into the field with out baseball gloves. The batter would toss [...]

Playing Catch by Myself

When I was about nine or ten years old growing up in the Chicago area, I was already in love with baseball. My friends from the neighborhood and I would play catch, or if we had enough kids, start up a baseball game. Sometimes, I couldn’t find anybody to play with, but I wouldn’t let [...]

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