by Ron Sokol | Oct 16, 2019 | Baseball History, Beautiful baseball
Goats get a bad rap. The general consensus is they are not all that bright, male and female typically have beards, they chew on tin cans (really?), most have horns, and they will not ever win a beauty contest. Frankly I am sympathetic. No goat ever did me any...
by Ron Sokol | Oct 8, 2019 | Baseball History
The best things in life are free, but you can give them to the birds and bees, I want money… Love that song. Thought of it when I read a brief news flash: Babe Ruth’s top salary was $80,000 in 1930 and 1931, which, adjusted for inflation, is the equivalent...
by Ron Sokol | Sep 7, 2019 | Baseball History, Beautiful baseball, Eternal Baseball
The Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants are historical rivals. There is a level of actual enmity between the two. After all, one team is from Northern California, you know, wine country, the beautiful City by by the Bay, stunning cliffs along the ocean,...
by Ron Sokol | Aug 31, 2019 | Baseball History, Beautiful baseball
Let me take your down cuz I’m going to… Wrigley Field…. Everything is real, and baseball to get up about. Wrigley Field for ever… Yes, I paraphrased a famous song, but it is so hard to know all what to say about Wrigley Field. At the end of...
by Ron Sokol | Aug 25, 2019 | Analysis, Baseball History, Insight
Thank you to Skip Collinge who posted this on Say What!! Baseball Oddities and let me borrow it here. My reply to this: Amen! I was so looking forward to the Yankee Series this weekend. Dodgers- Yankees is all about history and tradition. Look at these pictures-...
by Ron Sokol | Aug 21, 2019 | Baseball History, Beautiful baseball
“War, good God, what is it good for? Absolutely nuthin! Say it again…” Now, that’s a well-known song from awhile ago. Given all the complaints I am hearing and reading, and the analyses, that very refrain could apply to the great (or once)...
