January 10, 2013 With a star-studded and scandal-ridden list of first-time players eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame, doubts lingered about who exactly would make it into Cooperstown. So, who did? As it turns out, membership among the greats in the hall of fame will not grow this year, since no one was voted in, it was announced Wednesday (Jan
October 11, 2012 Don’t get me wrong, I love football and college basketball, but it’s like Bob Costas once said when asked what his favorite sport was: “Baseball is proof positive there is a God.”
October 4, 2012 The Major League Baseball Playoffs are here, and I'm sure there are many looking into the crystal ball to figure out which teams will win through the playoffs. Logic says to compare how the teams did against each other in the regular season, or which team was hot down the stretch, or who has the best best pitchers or hitters. These are all logical ways to predict winners, but it is baseball and anything can happen. Just refer to the St. Louis Cardinals in 2011 and you'll see logic may not have worked in predicting the winner as they defied the odds so many times.
A few months ago, I was cleaning out a box of stuff of mine. Somehow I was able to save these gem of a game that my father gave me in 1986, called the Tomy Pocket Game for baseball.
Major League Baseball is getting countrified this year — and not just because Zac Brown Band will be singing ‘Chicken Fried’ at the State Farm Home Run Derby on July 9. At the main event on July 10, Luke Bryan will take the stage at the MLB All-Star Game in Kansas City to sing the National Anthem minutes before the umpire shouts, “Play ball!” During the seventh-inning stretch, fellow country star Kellie Pickler will perform ‘God Bless America’ from the field.
David Nail is pretty hardcore. Just last month, the ‘Let It Rain’ hitmaker left it all out on the field at the City of Hope Celebrity Softball Challenge during the CMA Music Festival in Nashville. In fact, he played so hard (and might we add, threw out so many members of the challenging team) that he suffered a minor fracture and a detached tendon in his hand. The good news is, now Nail is all patched up and he’s ready to brave another celebrity softball match.
Major League Baseball has held inter-league match-ups since 1997. This Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the I-70 Series is restored as the St. Louis Cardinals host the Kansas City Royals.
This rivalry really took shape in 1985 when the Kansas City Royals won the World Series against the St. Louis Ca
