Who WILL Make it to the Series?

So, on paper your team looks great. You even start the season with a 2-1 winning record until about the middle of June, and then BAM-your star left fielder with all those homeruns, crashes into the center fielder and breaks his arm. He won’t be able to put his Rawlings baseball glove on for at [...]

Your Glove of Choice-(Part 7)

In choosing a baseball glove or softball glove or mitt, you need to choose a model that is right for your position and feels good on your hand. Remember, after you ‘break in’ a glove or mitt, it will feel much better than when it was new. It will take a little time, but hang in [...]

Your Glove of Choice-(Part 3)

…So, let’s talk about some of the brands and types of baseball gloves, and softball gloves that are offered today. First of all, $50.00 is no longer a “high end” glove or mitt; not in today’s world. Although, you can still get a pretty decent youth glove for $50.00 or slightly under, anything less is [...]

Your Glove of Choice-(Part 2)

Way back when I was seven or eight years old and just starting to play Little League baseball, I seem to remember that a teammate and I both had Rawlings youth baseball gloves. At that age and at that time, (late 1950’s) I don’t remember anyone really being “all into” what brand of glove they [...]

Aging Yankees Look to 200

Once again, the New York Yankees put together a championship season in 2009, beating the Philadelphia Phillies 4-games to 2 in the World Series. After their first place finish with a record of 103-59 in the always-tough American League East, the Yankees breezed through the playoffs. Will (can) this “mature” team do it again in [...]

200 Orioles Still Rebuilding

The Baltimore Orioles had a pretty tough year in 2009, finishing with the worst record in the American League at 64-98. The last half of the season was especially bad when they dropped 50 out of their last 74 games, including a stretch of 13-losses in a row. Manager Dave Trembley was called into GM [...]

200 is Cubs “Next Year”…

The Chicago Cubs, what can you say? They had a bad century and are working on their second. Maybe they’ll snap out of it and maybe we are not really in a recession, either! At any rate, the Cubs had a so-so year in 2009, finishing in second place behind St. Louis in the National [...]

Arizona Diamondbacks Look to 200

It always amazes me that when a team does poorly, the manager (Bob Melvin) gets the ax. The D-backs finished dead last in the National League West with a record of 70-92. Only two years previous, they won their division with a lot of hungry young ball players trying to earn a spot in the [...]