When I was a kid, growing up in Sacramento, I went a couple of summers to a baseball day camp hosted at Sacramento City College. Designed for elementary school-aged children and led by the City College players, the camp let us focus on fundamentals, filming our batting stances, having us hit against pitching machines, and [...]
Archive for June, 2009
I remember a time when Shaquille O’Neal was the most-feared player in the NBA, a 325-pound locomotive, good for about 30 points, 20 rebounds and a wrecked backboard on a standard night. The only way to stop him was to foul him and hope his shooting from the line was off as usual. I grew up in Sacramento as a [...]
Baseball saves the day. Again.
Posted: 25th June 2009 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: chronicles of the marginally employed
I am now in Week 4 at my new job, continuing to cold call businesses to pitch my firm’s service. I was on the phone yesterday with a spa owner in Eureka Springs, Arkansas when a thought occurred to me. Arkansas has long been famous for its natural hot springs, and baseball teams used to [...]
I went camping recently in Northern California with a group of friends. While on the trip, one of the girls told me she was a big San Francisco Giants fan. I smiled. I like women who can drive stick, shoot pool, and watch baseball. I would like nothing more than to find a girl to [...]
So it used to be I had a nice, quiet, little blog, where I could write odes to baseball, offering cute anecdotes and historical references. No one paid all that much attention, but I accepted it as the norm for a new sports blog. I mainly wanted the chance to write about sports, moreover baseball, on a regular basis [...]
Oh, you’re not that Rick Burleson?
Posted: 10th June 2009 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: chronicles of the marginally employed
I recently started a new day job in Berkeley, California. Unfortunately, I can’t make all my money as a baseball blogger/historian. Thus, I pay the bills doing sales work and have recently begun a position as an account executive for an Internet start-up in the East Bay. In a given day, I’ll cold call upwards [...]
A bar I used to drink in
Posted: 4th June 2009 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: Joe Marty, Sacramento baseball players
When I was a kid, growing up in Sacramento, I used to often visit a baseball card shop downtown. It was two doors over from a building whose sign was a large, glowing baseball with the words, “Joe Marty’s” emblazoned over it. I used to wonder what the place was. As a baseball card junkie [...]