Baseball Miscellaneaous 2

Another post that merges a few short news items.

The Nashville Sounds will add an exhibition about the Negro League past of Nashville. On the councourse, photos and artefacts will be displayed to show the fans what the history of Nashville baseball is about. That history covers a period of 130 years. But not only the Negro League will be highlighted, also other teams that played in Nashville, starting in 1885.
Nashville had a Negro league team from 1919 to 1930 and from 1932 to 1934. The franchise, known mainly as the Elite  Giants, played in Cleveland in 1931, and left Tennessee for good in 1935 when it moved to Columbus, Ohio. THe team may be best know for it’s time when it played in Baltimore.
This initiative is a cooperation between the Nashville Metro Sports Authority and the Nashville Sounds.Former Metro Nashville Sports Authority chairman Arnett Bodenhamer, also an expert on Nashville’s black baseball heritage, met with Sounds owner Frank Ward and other officials recently. “I just wanted to make sure they planned to recognize the old Negro league and guys who went on to play (in the major leagues),” Bodenhamer said. “From what they showed me and what they told me, if they do what they say they’re going to, then I think it’s going to be very good.”

This is a bit of old news in the meantime but I didn’t have the opportunity to mention it sooner. Aruban youngster Wally Vrolijk has signed a contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Wally played for the local Oranjestad Little League team and works for the foundation Por un Mundo Mejor. Unfortunately I haven’t found out what position he plays.

The Sporting News wrote that Alex Rodriguez has a fan in Hank Aaron. The magazine quotes: “I am rooting for him,” the 81-year-old Aaron told Newsday on Monday. “Despite all of the things that people say he had been involved in, I’m rooting for him to come back and have a great year. I am very much anxious to see what he’s going to do. I wish him well, but I just don’t know. When you’re (away) from playing the game the whole year and go out and then have to face kids that are throwing 90 miles an hour, it’s a tough thing.”
I do respect the man a lot, especially for what he had to go though when he was on the verge of breaking Babe Ruth’s all time homerun record. But when Barry Bonds was about to break Hank Aaron’s record of 755 dingers he wasn’t as supportive because of the alleged PED use of Bonds. So why does he support A-Rod?

There is a lot to do about moustaches and haircuts this Spring Training. Take a look at what I mean:

Of course everybody is entitled to sport his own style of haircut or moustache, but come on, there is a game these guys have to focus on. The diamond is not some kind of catwalk.