It was 1963 or 64 when my dad and mom took my brother and me to our first Major League Baseball (MLB) game. I remember this game because it was the first or second annual ‘Bat Day’ at Tiger Stadium. I remember arriving in the ball park area and parking in a front yard near…
Month: June 2025
Sixth Inning – Year Round Love
Mom and dad were always bowlers. The handful of trophies on top of the china cabinet and the bowling trophy clock on top of the TV console were glaring proof of that. So when I got big enough to roll that 6-pound, multi-colored bowling ball down the lane, I was introduced to the second sports…
The Fifth Inning – Winter Cold
About mid-December, the ground got too hard (frozen) to be tackled on and the golf courses were closed for the winter. Snows like the one pictured above made it possible to hunt during the week because school was cancelled because the buses couldn’t get through the roads until they had been plowed. That meant half…
Fourth Inning – The Off-Season
Like all good things, seasons would come to an end. Baseball season wasn’t very long. Spring was still cold at night and April and May were sometimes somewhat rainy. I think most seasons lasted just long enough to play each of the opposing teams twice, meaning 14 games in 7 weeks. Throw in the Fourth…
Third Inning
About the time I got to Team #1, a number of major things took place in my life. First, my brother was old enough to play little league baseball. He was a minor leaguer! That worked out great because the minor’s played their games on Mondays and Wednesdays and the majors played on Tuesdays and…
Second Inning
The Major League was big time! We got full uniforms. Yes, they were handed down from a number of seasons before, but that didn’t matter because the caps were new. Jerseys, pants (usually ripped, sewn, or patched), and stirrup socks were handed out to all players, not just the tee shirts and caps that were…
The First Inning
I’m going to start this inning with the pre-game show. You know, like they do before games today on the TV or radio. Just a bit of information that really doesn’t have anything to do with the outcome of the game, but is the “human side” of it. As I said in the last blog,…