Author: JonathanF

At last —  Back to a timezone where baseball happens at a reasonable hour… ignoring the 2nd game on Monday.  Though to be perfectly honest, my Yale Bulldogs won the NCAA Lacrosse Championship on Monday and I’m not going...

It’s 11:36 PM on a chilly night in Dublin. (Ireland, not Georgia.) Your intrepid correspondent is in a somewhat dodgy hotel room directly upstairs from a bar where bad covers of “Sultans of Swing,” “Wonderwall,” and “Brown...

Until the Braves win a challenge not involving CB Bucknor, I will refer to all opposing teams as hyphenated umps. After 41 games, the 1966 Braves were ensconced in 7th place, 8 games out with a 19-22 record. In their next game,...

Wednesday following a win… almost anything could happen…. Though imagine the pressure on me if yesterday had yielded a four game losing streak. The 35th game in 1966 found the Braves at 15-19 and 8 games out of first, ie...

What a great day to be at the ballpark.  Elation, terror, and a win. The top of the order stands for the anthem. The initial MLB pitch of Mike Soroka (a strike) Soroka showed great calm.  He was a lot calmer than I was, I...