Baseball Byways

Last month, Melvin and I traveled (generally) the Mormon and Oregon trails of the Westward Expansion, but geographically in reverse. Whereas...

The day after Melvin and I completed our 2025 baseball road trip, while I was flying to New York and Melvin was getting back in the swing of...

There is a poster at Maimonides Park in Brooklyn that is a contemporary take on a family's penciled hash marks on the kitchen door frame...

A comparative season preview. Traveling to see minor league baseball, that is, then writing about it. WHAT?! Are you in junior freakin' ...

I attended the home opener of the Eugnne Emeralds' 70th anniversary season, sitting in the front row looking down the third base line. E...

Melvin and I took only one trip together this year, riding the 1 train from the former Little Syria to Kingsbridge, passing through all but...

I became smitten with this depiction of baseball exhibited at the 178th annual Dutchess County Fair, so much so that I am sharing it here.

... all I had to do was ask Melvin. Melvin, Watson, Norton and I toured the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory during our soggy sojour...

Last week, I attended back-to back-to-back day games marketed to school groups. All three contests were entertaining but I am sure that many...

For many Years, many years ago, I read a Weekly neighborhood newspaper. I read it for what would later be Termed hyperlocal news, but the ga...