A defensive shift is employed when a power-hitter, known to swing for the fences, comes to the plate. A lefty hitting power-hitter will pull the ball to the right side and a righty power-hitter will pull the ball to the left side. A defensive shift occurs when defensive players leave their normal positions to overload …
Month: January 2015
Baseball was full of many scandals. There was Joe Jackson and “The Black Sox Scandal”, George Brett and “The Pine Tar Incident”, baseball players corking their bats, baseball pitchers scoffing the baseballs, and baseball players taking banned substances. Now the NFL has deflate-gate starring Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots. Commissioner Goodell faces quite …
For the first time since 1955, the Baseball Writers’ Association of America has elected four members to the Hall of Fame. They are Randy Johnson (The Big Unit), Pedro Martinez (Pedro),John Smoltz and Craig Biggio. All four of these players have no link to any use of baseball’s banned substances. Johnson, Martinez and Smoltz easily earned induction …
As I have said in many of my blog postings baseball follows me wherever I go. It was Dec. 15, 2014, my wife Tara and I were at the Bradley Airport in CT, on line waiting to board our plane. The woman behind us and my wife looked at each other and thought they knew …
As Trent McCann was growing up, his grandfather would tell him many stories about his own youth. Some of these stories involved famous sports celebrities. Since his grandfather recently passed away, Trent wanted to share with everyone the unplanned afternoon his grandfather spent with Babe Ruth, so that the little piece of history his grandfather …