It’s been a bad year for managers. News broke on Thursday of Sparky Anderson’s death at 76. Bobby Cox retired as the Braves’ skipper at the end of the season, as did the Toronto Blue Jays’ Cito Gaston and Lou Piniella of the Cubs back in July. With their retirements marks the end of a […]

The Pittsburgh Pirates are looking for a new manager and even though many are available – Ken Macha, Jeff Banister, Dale Sveum to name a few – none scream of the ideal fit like someone else I know. Despite the club having considered John Gibbons, Carlos Tosca and Eric Wedge already, the only single person […]

With the Texas Rangers now in the World Series – for the first time ever, no less – you might be asking yourself “who are these guys?” or “why should I cheer for them?” Well, I’m here to help you out with a quick guide to the Rangers and to show you why you should, […]

It felt like I was hit by a sack of bricks. There I was on a lazy Sunday afternoon; folding my laundry and listening to a baseball game on the radio. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim were hosting the Toronto Blue Jays. Midway through the match, Jerry Howarth, the long-time Blue Jay announcer, stated […]

The game of baseball is a bit of a glitch in the world of sports. For some peculiar reason, there is no game that values statistics quite to the same degree as baseball. In fact, one would be hard-pressed to discover an activity of any kind that competes with America’s pastime on the statistic-loving level. […]

When is an All-Star Game actually going to be all-star? This year’s MLB All-Star Game was for all intents and purposes a great ball game, not only to watch but to play in. All the players stuck around until the end of the game instead of leaving faster than Monica Lewinski when Hillary walked in. […]

Thanks to a number of remarkable single-game pitching performances thus far in the Major League Baseball season, there is a smidgen of acceptance for the lack of attention Colorado Rockies pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez has received for his execution of the National League. The levels of perfection reached by young Athletic Dallas Braden, and constant Cy […]

Earlier this summer, from April into June, Toronto-based blogger Navin Vaswani embarked on one hell of a road trip; or as he called it, The Baseball Road Trip of a Lifetime. It’s hard to imagine any baseball fan would disagree. In just under two months, Vaswani visited all 30 Major League ballparks. That’s a rate […]

In light of Stephen Strasburg’s fourth dominating start for the woeful Washingston Nationals, the buzz around the rookie pitcher’s chances to represent his squad in July’s All-Star Game in Anaheim have heated up. Despite his relative inexperience in Major League Baseball, Strasburg has quickly compiled some of the finest starts for a first-timer in the […]

Stephen Strasburg made an appearance in Washington D.C. on Tuesday and proceeded to wreak havoc in every awesome way possible. It was more or less expected, but nevertheless the results were a pleasant surprise. On one single night, Stephen Strasburg was at once a caroling child singing on Christmas Eve, photographic proof of the Loch […]