1 day agoMLB-China Partnership Sending Ballplayers to U.S.The New Year we’re moving into this week under the Chinese Lunar calendar is the Year of the Rabbit, considered the luckiest of the 12 animal signs to be born under in the Chinese zodiac. While some may be born to it, others’ luck is made through lucrative CCP deals. …Baseball4 min readBaseball4 min read
Jan 19Population Pressures Contribute to Great Salt Lake Going DryUtah’s Great Salt Lake may disappear within the next five years, experts predict. A Brigham Young University report found that as of January 2023, the lake is 19 feet below its average level. …Great Salt Lake3 min readGreat Salt Lake3 min read
Jan 5Mid-Term Voters Prefer Status QuoThat’s Bad News for Change Advocates Voters are, to understate their mood, disenchanted with Congress. Yet paradoxically, voters re-elect, over and over, the same representatives they hold in dismally low esteem, consider ineffectual and out-of-touch. On average for 2022, about 80 percent of polling respondents disapproved of how congressional representatives…3 min read3 min read
Dec 7, 2022MLF Umpire Augie Donatelli Learned his Trade in German POW CampDuring World War II, 130,000 American soldiers and nearly 19,000 U.S. civilians were prisoners of war. In all but the worst circumstances, usually the Japanese camps where POWs lived in brutally inhumane conditions, a little recreation was possible, and baseball was the preferred pastime. In his book, “POW Baseball in…Baseball3 min readBaseball3 min read
Nov 30, 2022Race to Earth’s 9 Billionth Human is UnderwayThe arrival of the planet’s 8 billionth human inhabitant, which the United Nations excitedly announced in mid-November, was greeted in some circles as a joyous event. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hailed 8 billion people as an occasion “to celebrate diversity and enhancements.” For other population growth enthusiasts, 2037 can’t come…Overpopulation3 min readOverpopulation3 min read
Nov 10, 2022On Veterans Day, Washington Senators’ Cecil Travis, Forgotten HeroBaseball history is rich with inspiring stories about Hall of Fame players who served with distinction during World War II, then returned to the diamond, and picked up their stellar careers exactly where they left off. In 1942, Marine Corp Captain Ted Williams hit .356; came back in 1946 to…Baseball3 min readBaseball3 min read
Oct 27, 2022‘Little’ Johnny, Babe Ruth and His PromiseBaseball is rich with legend and lore. At the center of many of the most well-known stories is Babe Ruth. The Big Bam’s 1932 called shot off Chicago Cubs pitcher Charlie Root is still contested today. But in the 1926 World Series, when New York Yankees faced off against the…Babe Ruth3 min readBabe Ruth3 min read
Oct 12, 2022Italian-American Heritage MonthThe Acerra’s All-Brothers Baseball Team In 1997, the Cooperstown Hall of Fame honored the Acerra family, an all-Italian, 12-brother semi-pro team that played .700 winning baseball from 1938 to 1952. Between 1860 and 1940, 29 baseball teams were made up entirely of brothers; the Acerras played longer than any other. …Italian3 min readItalian3 min read
Sep 23, 2022On Rosh Hashanah: Captain Hank Greenberg, WWII Hero and HOF SluggerSimply put, Hank Greenberg is the most prodigious Jewish Major League Baseball slugger ever. Greenberg’s .313 career batting average, four AL home runs and four RBI titles plus two MVP awards earned the 12-year Detroit Tigers’ first baseman a Hall of Fame plaque in 1956 as the first Jew to…3 min read3 min read
Sep 13, 2022As NFL Begins its Second Century, a George Halas RemembranceThe National Football League has started its second century as the gridiron world’s highest achievable professional level. Formed in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association (APFA), it rebranded itself in 1922 as the NFL. Going back to the APFA’s birth, George Halas has been football’s most prominent and creative…3 min read3 min read
