This site has been in existence for a little under a year now, and my most popular post by far remains a list I published last May, The 10 best baseball players not in the Hall of Fame. It gets the most visitors, the most comments, and the one time so far that I’ve received [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Time for baseball to call an amnesty on Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe
Posted: 31st March 2010 by Graham Womack in Baseball Hall of FameTags: cause for debate, Pete Rose, Pete Rose should be in the Hall of Fame, Shoeless Joe Jackson should be in the Hall of Fame
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Eddie Gaedel: One baseball record that might never be broken
Posted: 29th March 2010 by Graham Womack in MLBI have been meaning to write something about those baseball records that I think might never be broken. It’s an always-interesting question because I think most records are ultimately breakable in baseball. There are perhaps a select few, like Cy Young’s 511 wins, Ty Cobb’s .367 career batting average and Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak [...]
I miss the early Nineties. I miss the Sundays and the breathless SportsCenter reports when Deion Sanders would play in an Atlanta Falcons game, get on a plane and make it to Pittsburgh in time for a Braves playoff game that evening. I still wonder how he did it. I miss Bo Jackson and the [...]
It’s all over the Internet that Jose Canseco got subpoenaed on Tuesday to testify before a grand jury on April 8 about Roger Clemens. Canseco played on three different teams with the embattled former pitcher, currently under federal investigation for lying to Congress in 2008 when he said he never used performance enhancing drugs. For [...]
Thoughts on George Brett and the glove he inspired
Posted: 22nd March 2010 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: family and friends, George Brett
I don’t know how old I was the first time I got a baseball mitt, though I suppose it would have been when I began playing Tee Ball in kindergarten. If my memory serves correct, I first used a light tan Ozzie Smith model glove, and if I wore it today, it would probably be [...]
Thoughts from another lifetime
Posted: 20th March 2010 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedI read on the Sacramento Bee Web site that their former Kings beat writer, Sam Amick, recently left the paper to take a job with AOL Fanhouse and that another Bee reporter assumed his duties. In what seems like a different lifetime, I clerked for the Bee sports section and occasionally talked to Amick, who [...]
Ron Washington rode the white horse. So what?
Posted: 19th March 2010 by Graham Womack in Drugs in baseballMost people will probably screw up in one way or another at some point in their lives. It’s only human to wreck a car or a marriage, to fail a class, to get fired from a job, maybe even to have problems with drugs, alcohol or the law. When most folks fall short, they do [...]
John Smoltz signs with… TBS? Very funny.
Posted: 16th March 2010 by Graham Womack in Free agency, trades, and other movesI remember when the Fab Four pitching staff of Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, Steve Avery and John Smoltz ruled baseball in 1993. Spearheaded by a Cy Young season from Maddux, the four went a combined 75-33, making the Atlanta Braves the first team in the 20th Century with four 15-game winners and wrecking an otherwise [...]
Five baseball people I wish had Twitter
Posted: 16th March 2010 by Graham Womack in Entries inspired by TwitterTags: Babe Ruth, Casey Stengel, Jose Canseco, Lou Gehrig, Satchel Paige, Twitter
I recently signed up for Twitter (@grahamdude) to promote this site. Anyone who reads regularly knows I follow Jose Canseco, and sometimes, he apparently reads what I write, too. Canseco is actually fairly entertaining and unhinged on Twitter as is Ozzie Guillen. The famously flippant White Sox manager had several Tweets last Friday slamming actor [...]
Currently on “This Week in Stupid Trade Rumors,” I saw a story this evening on ESPN that the Phillies discussed offering the Cardinals their slugger Ryan Howard for three-time National League Most Valuable Player (and St. Louis institution) Albert Pujols. Not sure if the story is legit, since it quoted unnamed sources and featured a [...]