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“They will come to your door as innocent as children…It will be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters, the memories will be so thick they’ll have to brush them away from their faces…” Terrance Mann
My dad once told me, “The older you get; the more you realize that its all the good things that bring the tears.” The older I get the more I realize how right Dad was about so many, many things. … Continue reading
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TRADITION…”Because of our traditions, everybody knows who they are.” Tevye of Anatevka
The American Heritage Dictionary defines the word tradition as “the passing down of elements of a culture from generation to generation especially by oral communication.” June 27th, 2024 marked the 26th year since the passing of my dad. Throughout the … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball and Life, Fenway Park Baseball, Golf, Traditions
Tagged Babe Ruth, family, Fenway Park, Golf, golfing, Lake Venice Golf Course, sports, travel
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“CHA CHA” OR “BABY BULL” & “THE SAY HEY KID”…
“Giants Legendary Hall of Famer Dead at 86” the newsfeed said, coming just days after my son’s text which simply read, RIP Willie Mays. Back-to-back cold shot reminders to those of us traversing the back nine of our lives, that … Continue reading
WHEN THE GREATS FACED THE GREATS, THE BABE AND THE BIG TRAIN REVISITED…
In May 2014, ten years ago, YIKES! I posted a story about the greats facing the greats. It is the most visited post in the 12 years I’ve been here. A recent comment by Hal awakened my brain to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Babe Ruth, baseball, baseball-history, Fenway Park, Griffith Stadium, mlb, Polo Grounds, sports, The Big Train, Walter Johnson
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“Hey Dad…Wanna Have a Catch” Ray Kinsella
Many years ago, my dad impressed upon me the concept that all of life is bittersweet. The poets of the world all knew, expressing it through eloquent words down through the ages. None grasped it with the eloquence of this … Continue reading
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APRIL 23, 1967, YAZ, WILLIAMS, SPAHN, HUBBELL, TED, HOYT, HANK AND MORE…
A Sunday in Boston Massachusetts. A Sunday in which the high for the day was 56 degrees, the low only 46. Yet encompassed in that rather innocuous, disparity, was the rumble of thunder and flashes of lightning around the old … Continue reading
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Tagged baseball, baseball-history, Boston Red Sox, boston-latin, Carl Hubbell, Dick Williams, federal-league, Fenway Park, george-washington, Hank Aaron, hoyt-wilhelm, mlb, robert-e-lee, shakespeare, sports, Ted Williams, Warren Spahn, washington-college, washington-lee-university, Wrigley Field, Yaz
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SIX YEARS GONE…PUMPSIE, EARL, GENNARO AND A SIX-YEAR-OLD KID.
“Long ago and far away, life was clear, close your eyes. Remember is a place from long ago…Remember close your eyes and you can see” Harry Nilsson In honor of these three Venice High baseball greats, I make my return … Continue reading
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Tagged "Pumpsie" Green, Babe Ruth, baseball, Boston Red Sox, Carl Yastrzemski, Dalton Guthrie, Earl Wilson, Fenway Park, Jackie Jensen, Jerry Casale, Mike Rivera, mlb, Orion Kerkering, Pete Runnells, Red Sox, sports, Ted Williams, Venice High School Baseball
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Billy Rohr, We Will Love Him Forever…
It was 50 years ago today that I was huddled around an eight transistor radio at the soda fountain counter at Reidy’s Drug Store in Jackson Square in East Weymouth Massachusetts. We were listening to the voice of the man … Continue reading
Koufax and Kershaw, Leveling the Playing Field…
In my last post, I gave you a pretty comprehensive overview of Sandy Koufax and Clayton Kershaw. For Koufax it encompassed his six years of dominance from 1961 through 1966 and for Kershaw it ran from 2011 into this year. Clayton … Continue reading
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Tagged Clayton Kershaw, Cy Young Award, Sandy Koufax
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