When I was a kid I was a Yankees fan - I lived in NYC. My father was a NY Giants fan. We occasionally listened to games on the radio and I went with my father to several games at the Polo Grounds, Ebbets Field and the original Yankee Stadium. And to several more at Yankees games with a school friend. Then I lost interest ( Read more... )

We have seasons tickets for weekday games that we share with other people. We generally take tickets to 15 games ( Read more... )

Last night we went to our next-to-last Red Sox game for the season ( Read more... )

When I was a kid and lived in NYC I was a Yankees fan. (My father was a Giants fan). I went a few games, listened to games on the radio and argued incessantly with one of my friends who was a Red Sox fan as to who was better: Ted Williams or Joe DiMaggio ( Read more... )

Last weekend was Spring Dance Camp. It takes place at a YMCA Camp in Connecticut. As usual we had a great time with lots of great Contra Dancing and English Country Dancing, the variety show, and lots of hanging around ( Read more... )

I just finished reading Bottom of the 33rd by Dan Barry. This is the story of the world's longest baseball game. It was a Minor League game between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings in Pawtucket, RI and it took ~8 1/2 hours to play the 33 innings. For non-baseball cognoscenti or others a normal baseball game is 9 innings and takes ( Read more... )

A while ago I read a great book by Jared Diamond: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. In this he describes his theory of reasons why this happens: climate change, hostile neighbors, collapse of trading partners, environmental problems, and failure to adapt to environmental issues. He gives an analysis to many occurrences in ( Read more... )

One of the worst things about watching baseball on tv live is that you see the same bloody ads too many times.

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One of the players drafted by the Red Sox is Seth Schwindenhammer. If he makes it to the team his name will be the longest ever (beating out Saltalamacchia by a letter - he plays for the Rangers). This presents a challenge to the people who sew names on the backs of uniforms.

Sunday was my birthday - one of those round number ones - but no big deal to me. I had considered admitting I had reached middle age when I reached 70. I'm still not sure I'm middle aged yet ( Read more... )