In this edition of Baseball Shorts, we pay attention to the bat flip. A phenom that is loved by many but perhaps even hated by more. Especially pitchers are not fond of it. But where does the bat flip come from? Read on and you will learn. As a bat flip is considered an insult…
In today’s episode of Baseball related songs, we pay attention to “Me and Julio by the schoolyard” performed by singer-songwriter Paul Simon. The song is about two boys that have committed a crime. When the mother of the boys (mama pajama) notices what the boys have done, she heads to a police station to report…
In Baseball related songs, we pay attention to “Mickey Mantle” performed by the band Waters. Mickey Mantle is a song from the debut album “Out in the Light” of the band. It is the final song on the album that contains ten songs. Even though the name of the former Yankee star is mentioned, the…
Today, sixty-three years ago, Don Larsen accomplished what no-one had ever done before: pitching the first perfect game in World Series history. Game five was a pitchers duel from both sides. Not only did Don Larsen not allow a hit, his opponent, Sal Maglie, allowed only five hits and issued two walks as he gave…
In this episode of Baseball related songs, we pay attention to “We didn’t start the fire” performed by Billy Joel. This song describes the cause of history from 1949 until the late eighties. You may wonder why the song starts in 1949. Well, that’s quite simple. It is Billy Joel’s year of birth. Next to…
In today’s edition of Baseball related music, we pay attention to “Talkin’ baseball, sung by Terry Cashman. The song is describing the history of baseball from the 1950s to the beginning of the 80s. The song was released in 1981, the year the regular MLB season was shortened by a player strike. The song was…
tThe Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri league or KOM for short was founded in 1946 in a period in which minor leagues popped up like mushrooms. Like many of those minor leagues, the KOM league did not last a full decade as it folded at the end of the 1952 season. The Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri League got a class D rating…
Yesterday, the Texas Historical Commmission voted in favor of the Houston Astrodome to designate the stadium as a State Antiquities Landmark, joining the ranks of the Alamo, the State Capitol, the Cotton Bowl and other notable sites. Like we all know, the Astrodome was the home of the Houston Astros from its opening in 1965…
Yesterday, Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez, Tim Raines and Jeff Bagwell were voted into the HOF. For the first time, a steroid user has been voted into the Walhalla of baseball. I had to let sink that in for a while. You can only wonder why a bunch of cheaters has been voted into the HOF. It all started…
Perhaps you have seen several HOF voting ballots on Facebook on Twitter lately. Several baseball writers and journalists, who are organized in the Baseball Writers Association of America, have put their ballot on the world wide web. For the first time, you can see a heavy shift towards voting for several PED users. Voting for PED…
