Precious Sanders

LATEST ARTICLES ( 1963 )

• A Couple More Jokes

  

  In case you need a chuckle on this fine morning, here are a couple baseball jokes I came across to get you going! The second one strikes me as an actual,... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2019 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• This Day in Baseball: Braves Looking to Move

  

  Lou Perini announced on March 13, 1953 that he would be seeking permission from the National League to move his franchise from Boston to Milwaukee. Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2019 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Quote of the Day

  

  Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually. ~Curt Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2019 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Backwards Bases

  

  On June 23, 1963, Mets outfielder Jimmy Piersall faced Phillies pitcher Dallas Green to lead off the top of the fifth. Piersall swung on Green’s offering and... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2019 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• “Look, It’s Baseball,” by Guided by Voices

  

  This is a short little tune, but it has a nice feel-good vibe to it.  It’s part nostalgia and part present-day joy, all packed into less than two minutes of... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2019 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• This Day in Baseball: Federal League Founded

  

  On March 8, 1913, John Powers founded the Federal League.  Just a year previous, Powers had the Columbian League, which had failed before a game could even be... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2019 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Quote of the Day

  

  When we lost I couldn’t sleep at night. When we win I can’t sleep at night. But when you win, you wake up feeling better. ~Joe Torre Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2019 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• “They Lived Too Soon”

  

  This piece, written by an anonymous author, was first published in the Chicago Record in 1896.  I find the poem a touch humorous in that it indicates that for... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2019 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• This Day in Baseball: Dodger Car Accident

  

  Attempting to beat a 12:30 a.m. curfew on March 5, 1958, the Dodgers’ Duke Snider, Johnny Podres, and Don Zimmer sustained minor injuries in a car accident in... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2019 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• “The Losing Edge,” South Park

  

  I rarely get to mention this here, because so little of the show ever touches on baseball, but I have been a huge South Park fan for many, many years. Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2019 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Quote of the Day

  

  When I’m not hitting, I don’t hit nobody. But, when I’m hitting, I hit anybody. ~Willie Mays Willie Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2019 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Joe Morgan’s Hall of Fame Induction Speech

  

  Joe Morgan was named the National League MVP in 1975 and 1976, also winning World Series championships with the Reds in those years. Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2019 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• This Day in Baseball: Olerud’s Surgery

  

  After collapsing on January 11th following a workout, John Olerud underwent brain surgery for the removal of an aneurysm on February 27, 1989. Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2019 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Quote of the Day

  

  I have an Alka Seltzer bat. You know, plop plop fizz fizz. When the pitcher sees me walking up there they say, ‘Oh what a relief it is. Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2019 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• “Baseball on the Block,” by John McCutcheon

  

  For me, growing up, it was baseball in the backyard, but this song does make me miss those games. Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2019 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• This Day in Baseball: Boggs’s Arbitration Case

  

  In spite of losing his arbitration case on February 23, 1986, third baseman Wade Boggs was still awarded $1.35 million, which was the highest amount ever awarde... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2019 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Need a New Bat

  

  Aha!  So that was my problem.  Man, as pricey as bats are, you’d think they’d engineer them better. Family Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2019 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Quote of the Day

  

  Baseball is not life. It is a fiction, a metaphor. And a ballplayer is a man who agrees to uphold that metaphor as though lives were at stake. Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2019 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• History of Fenway Park

  

  Wikipedia Fenway Park is the oldest Major League Baseball stadium currently in use.  The ballpark has hosted World Series games in eleven different seasons, wit... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2019 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• This Day in Baseball: Cox Buys the Phillies

  

  After the bankrupt team had been taken over by the National League, William D. Cox purchased the Philadelphia Phillies from the NL on February 18, 1943.  At... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2019 BASEBALL, SPORTS