A Baseball Writer From Rhode Island
Backroads, I love them. If I can avoid highways and interstates and crowded turnpikes, I am all in. With all the airline travel I have been doing recently, I have found a very efficient way to get to the airport with little or no hassle. Case in point, my travel to Norfolk International Airport now... Continue Reading →
As the calendar flips to February, the reality of live baseball games becomes larger and larger. Professional baseball's Spring Training games are imminent, pitchers and catchers arrive early, collegiate teams moving from indoor facilities to their respective diamonds - the wheels of baseball operations everywhere are slowly but surely set in motion. The same can be said,... Continue Reading →
It is January. It is Winter. And yet, there are so many cool baseball stories out there to be found here in Virginia Beach and Hampton Roads. So, when you want to gain some local baseball knowledge, you prepare. Layers, warm gloves, hat, and an exit strategy if the temperatures approach those of the Hoth Planet. Case in point, Sunday.... Continue Reading →
One of the great things about research is the discovery of interesting items not on your research list. I am dating myself but when I was a school aged lad, we had to go to the library and read books, encyclopedias, almanacs, atlases to gain information for research. Once inside those pieces of information, often times I... Continue Reading →
Don't you just love tangents? You know, when you are on one path and suddenly another very interesting path opens up and you head down there full speed? Like for example, I was out the other day with Rachel and the Weims (Rookie and Nora) exploring the area I lived in when I first moved to Virginia... Continue Reading →
Baseball has a wonderful way of connecting communities, states, generations through players, stats, and fun facts. You can be a stranger in a new town and see a baseball picture on a wall in a retail store, point out to the clerk "hey is that Johnny Pesky in that photo?" then a woman comes out... Continue Reading →
I went back to Rachel, who was sitting very patiently for me, figuring out the tip, and began to tell her the story of the baseball. We had other agendas so I was brief. I took my placemat and flipped it over and asked Rachel for a pen to jot some notes down. "Where is... Continue Reading →
I was recently down in Virginia Beach on vacation and stopped into a diner one morning for breakfast. It was a fairly typical diner in terms of décor - padded booths, nostalgic posters and photos on the walls (some of them autographed), 3 or 4 middle to older women waitresses, grill sizzling with potatoes and... Continue Reading →
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