Little League baseball was a big part of my early years. Before dying of Cancer, my father Paul Rothman got great enjoyment in seeing me play. When he was well enough, he came to my games held in Hackensack, New Jersey. I made the Hackensack All-Star team as a shortstop. But, unlike the Little League …
You probably have never heard of a young woman named Mo’Ne Davis. If you tune into the Little League World Series beginning Thursday, August 14, she will be a central figure. Mo’Ne is a 13-year-old from Philadelphia who pitches for the Taney Dragons of Philadelphia. Mo’Ne pitched a three-hitter on Sunday, August 10, to lead …
As a diehard Yankee fan, the beginning of the Yankees new home-stand seemed like a nightmare. Their first four-game series, August 4-7, would be against the first-place Detroit Tigers. Max Scherzer, the newly acquired David Price, and Justin Verlander were scheduled to pitch the first three games. These three pitchers just happened to be the …
I begin with the Yankees little brother in New York the Mets. In a previous blog I thought the Mets should either trade Colon or Matsuzaka for prospects or do nothing before the trade deadline. It turns out they did nothing. I am glad the rumored trade that the Mets would part with their second …
The Oakland Athletics have pulled their usual second half of the season trick of getting just the right player, from a team out of contention, for their stretch drive to the playoffs. What is unusual this year the team out of contention is the Boston Red Sox. In the blockbuster trade just completed the Red …
For this multiple part blog I would like to give my opinion on the some of the winners and losers in the just concluded trades. Part 1 will focus on the last trade made just before the 4 p.m. deadline on Thursday, July 31. This trade saw LHP David Price dealt from the Tampa Bay …
In Part 1 of this blog, I talked about the role games play in exciting children about math. In his NYT article, Professor Ellenberg states. “The new games are difficult, but also, for many kids, kind of addictive. Which means they also teach sitzfleisch, the ability to focus on a complicated skill for the length …
The ideas in this Blog came from an article written on 07/25/2014 for the NYT by Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, and the author of the book “How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking.” Professor Ellenberg began his article by asking the question many parents have …
In Part 3 of this 4-part blog we looked at the impressive Mets young pitching staff. We now look at the future Mets positional players. We begin with the infielders. At first base the much improved 28-year-old Lucas Duda has14 HR and 49 RBI at the break. It looks like the Mets made the right …
The strength of the Mets is their young pitching staff. Assuming their young pitchers can stay healthy, the Mets will have one of the best and youngest starting rotations in baseball over the next 5 years. Here is the way I see the future Mets starting rotation beginning in 2015. Returning from TJ surgery, the …