VOICES PODCAST: BOB GAINES
Christy Mathewson won 373 games over 17 seasons. Forget about 20-game winning seasons, let’s talk about 30-game winning seasons. Mathewson won 30 or more games four times, including a 37-win season in...
View ArticleONE ‘SORRY’ LETTER
It took Alex Rodriguez 216 words to utter three meaningful words: I am sorry. Last week Rodriguez passed on a press conference, passed on hiring a public relations crisis management firm, passed on...
View ArticleSCULLY’S LOVE AFFAIR WITH BASEBALL
Vin Scully remembers the moment he fell in love with baseball. “I was not quite nine years old,” he said. “I was walking home from grammar school. I went by a Chinese laundry, and in the window was the...
View ArticlePODCAST: JASON TURBOW ON THE SWINGIN’ A’S
Jason Turbow is our guest on the latest Voices Podcast. Turbow is the author of Baseball Codes and his new book, Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley’s Swingin’...
View ArticleVOICES PODCAST: GREG PRINCE
The Mike Piazza story may just be too Hollywood for Hollywood. While true, it doesn’t sound true, but cliched. Drafted in the 62nd round as a favor to Los Angeles Dodgers Tom Lasorda (1988), the...
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