Author: JonathanF

I interrupt this weekly set of baseball musings to celebrate my alma mater for a paragraph.  Yale, defending NCAA champions in lacrosse, has advanced to the Final Four this weekend in Philadelphia.  They take on Penn...

To those for whom baseball is their only touchstone, William Bendix is known as the eponymous hero of The Babe Ruth Story, a not very good movie.  Bendix also had a few good dramatic roles, particularly in Hitchcock’s...

The codgerati amongst us all remember when the Braves nemesis was the Dodgers.  From 1969-1993 the East Division had two teams from the Central Time Zone and the West Division had two teams from the Eastern Time Zone.  No,...

Last week was my 45th high school reunion, which I didn’t attend.  But I know I have readers from that class, because one friend of mine forwards my missives to another.  (Hi, Dennis.)  The 1974 team had Hank’s 715th, of...

I have a proprietary interest in Mike Soroka because I attended his MLB debut last year.  There’s very little not to like of what we’ve seen of Mike.  In tonight’s game he gave up a walk and two singles to yield...