Just days after he was voted into the Hall of Fame, the Mariners announced that they will retire Ken Griffey Jr’s number. Griffey will be the first Mariner whose number will be retired. His nr. 24 will hang next to Jackie Robinson’s 42. The event of retiring his number will take place on August 6….
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…
In my post about Rickwood Field I wrote that that was the oldes still standing ballpark in the US. Well, today I learned that that is not the case. I have made a correction. It is the oldest standing ballpark where professional baseball is played, even though it is only once per year. The (arguably)…
