When Shane Victorino hit a routine 4-3 grounder to end the World Series Wednesday night November 4 2009, as far as I’m concerned winter officially came. It breaks your heart this game of ours, as late baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti put it eloquently. Just when you need it the most as the days grow short Read More
"THE ONLY REASON TO PLAY BASEBALL IS TO KEEP WINTER AWAY"
October 19, 2009
Don’t know who first said that mouthful – it may have been Japanese home run king Sadaharu Oh - but it is one of my favorite quotes of all time. Of course the first rounds of the baseball playoffs endured in early October some of the worst wintry conditions in recent memory. The Phillies Read More