Adorable Yet Endless Garry retired to the bedroom after the 10th inning. Not that he was giving up on the game. He just wanted to watch it in bed. I’m more comfortable sitting up, so I stayed in the living room…. Read More ›
World Series
A TERRIBLE WONDERFUL YEAR – TWO ARE WON! – Garry Armstrong
And tonight, minus the rain and the lightning, game two commenced … and we won. Two down, two to go. No power outage and there will be a day off, then they will be off to L.A. It was 47… Read More ›
A DAY TO BELIEVE – WORLD SERIES GAME FOUR – 2017
Today ought to be the fourth game of the World Series. The actuality of this event will depend on the weather in New York and Boston. It is supposed to rain in both cities, so I suppose it’s a matter… Read More ›
FLY THE W
A Chicago Tradition, Rich Paschall, Sunday Night Blog If you watched the National League baseball playoff games, or the World Series, you may have noticed many Chicago Cubs fans with white flags. No, they were not trying to signal surrender. … Read More ›
JOY IN WRIGLEYVILLE – RICH PASCHALL
Mudville, too – Rich Paschall, Sunday Night Blog The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville Nine that day; the score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play. And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows… Read More ›
THE EIGHTH GAME – THE 2016 WORLD SERIES ON A PARALLEL EARTH
FOR FANS OF AMERICA’S PASTIME: It’s the ninth inning of the seventh game of the World Series. The pitchers on both teams are done in. No rest for the weary because the game is tied. Exactly as the inning ends, it starts… Read More ›
PLAY BALL! – GARRY ARMSTRONG
I am a lifelong baseball fan. When October rolls around, I can smell baseball in the wind, I can hear it in the rustling autumn leaves.It’s World Series time again! The Red Sox are not playing in it, but that doesn’t… Read More ›
GOODBYE – BOYS OF SUMMER, 2015
They are celebrating in America’s heartland! The Kansas City Royals are the champs of baseball after defeating the New York Mets to win the World Series 4 games to 1. The “Boys of Summer” finished the season in frigid football weather…. Read More ›
SAVED BY COINCIDENCE AND BLIND LUCK
It was just luck. Nothing more, nothing less. Twenty-six years ago, moments before game three of the 1989 World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics, fans were thrown from their seats at Candlestick Park as an earthquake shook the… Read More ›
LIFE’S WALK-OFF HOME RUN
Grand Slam Being baseball fans, when you mention baseball and walk-off home runs, David Ortiz pops into mind. He isn’t the Big Poppy he was in the past, but he has his good days. The Sox are so not in it this year, but… Read More ›
LIFE’S GRAND SLAM – A WALK-OFF HOME RUN
Grand Slam The World Series starts tonight! In your own life, what would be the equivalent of a walk-off home run? (For the baseball-averse, that’s a last-minute, back-against-the-wall play that guarantees a dramatic victory.) We are baseball fans, so when you mention… Read More ›
WINNERS OF THE 2013 WORLD SERIES, RED SOX DO IT AT FENWAY IN 6!!!
It’s only been 95 years … just a blip on the monitor of history. But it’s been a long wait for Red Sox fans, to see them win a World Series in Fenway Park. Tonight the magic worked. The third… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 