It had been a season of celebration at Sam Lynn Ballpark in Bakersfield. The home of the Bakersfield Blaze (High A; California League) had turned 75-years-old in 2016, and the Blaze ran a series of promotions and giveaways to commemorate the milestone. (more…)
The dream is the same for every Minor League baseball player: Learn the craft, hone the skills and make the jump to the Major Leagues, leaving behind the smaller, antiquated, hometown feel of the Minor League ballpark for the modern, awe-inspiring cathedrals of The Show. But on the rarest of occasions in baseball history, it’s […]
When you’ve waited 54 years for a major sports championship, what is seven games? Surely that was the mindset that pervaded the city of Cleveland in June, as LeBron James and the beloved Cavaliers needed to go the distance against Golden State to make real the city’s greatest sports fantasy. (more…)
Christina Griffith is a Boston Red Sox fan who used to live in Massachusetts, but as a San Diego transplant, she has adopted the Padres as her hometown team, complete with season tickets to Petco Park. (more…)
They are the unsung heroes of sports, those larger-than-life figures that provide fans with endless entertainment – and free T-shirts shot out of small military-grade weapons. They are the mascots, often fuzzy and always feisty, bringing their brand of comedic stylings to the masses, often as unique and unusual as their nicknames and costumes. (more…)
Among other baseball achievements, Ted Williams once managed the Washington Senators. And given the address of his home office, and the propensity to speak his mind, the Splendid Splinter was not shy about expressing his opinion of oft-maligned former President Herbert Hoover, he of Great Depression infamy. (more…)
It hadn’t even been a full week since the baseball world was shocked and horrified by Tonya Carpenter’s life-threatening injuries at Fenway Park, after being struck in the head by a broken bat, when tragedy struck again in Fort Wayne, Ind. (more…)
We recently detailed some of the fine culinary creations coming to a Major League Baseball ballpark near you. But as all baseball fans know, fabulous and far-out fare is hardly the province of just the big leagues. (more…)
If you said the biggest baseball development in Kansas City last season was the Royals winning the World Series … well, of course, you would be right. After all, the loyal fans inside Kauffman Stadium hadn’t tasted ultimate victory for 30 years. (more…)
What’s in a name? In the modern world of ballparks and the profitable practice of selling naming rights, the answer, from a nostalgic point of view, is not much. (more…)
