Not New -Just Renewed! — I’ve walked this planet for 66 years, and hope to stay around for another 34 — then, I’ll reevaluate! This from someone who wasn’t expected to reach age 30, and hoped to live down to that expectation! I didn’t trust anyone over 30 then — so I never wanted to…

The Next Generation — J.B.’s Big Moment — We have made it to the penultimate story of this series! It’s the top of the 9th, yet I still have so much more I want to say about the game of baseball — why I love it so, and why it means so much to me. It could easily…

A Game I Remember with More Fondness Than Any Other — Between 1964 and 1970, I went to at least 150 baseball games at Forbes Field, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates, including the last two games ever played there, a Sunday afternoon doubleheader in June, 1970. I was 9 years old in ’64 when I started going to games on my…

The Magical Powers of the Homerun Cherry Pit — We played a lot of whiffle ball in the summertime in the alley between Brookline Boulevard and Berkshire Avenue in the Brookline section of Pittsburgh. I have such fond memories of that — it seemed like the whole world was right then. …

An Eternal Moment — Never Forget — One of my favorite moments on a baseball (softball) diamond came on a night a lot like this night. It was in the gloaming of a mid-summer evening, right at that moment when the sun has descended beyond the horizon, but the sky and all of the surrounding landscape are…

Running for President — I love those ice-breaker questions you get sometimes in a meeting when they want people to get to know each other a little better. “Tell us something about yourself that most people don’t know, or would never guess about you?” I have a lot of things that work well as…

Historic Opportunity Missed — But the Game Goes on! — After that first year in town, when they took us on a wild and crazy ride, playing way above themselves and finding themselves in first place for 2 months, the Washington Nationals did finally settle down to be the team everyone had expected them to be — mediocre at best. …

Reversing a 43 Year Curse — I was born about 3 weeks after my paternal grandfather passed away. I knew him only through stories told by my Dad and others. He sounded like quite a character. One of the stories I heard was how he had caught a foul ball at Forbes Field, way up in…

The Year We Went Nuts for the Nats — It’s time to talk about what happened when the Washington Nationals came to town. There had been so many false hopes about teams coming to D.C. over the years, most of us felt like this was going to be just another near miss. The Baltimore Orioles owner, Peter Angelos, was…