Musial

Stan Musial never got thrown out of a game. Never. Think about this for a moment. Musial played in 3,026 games in his career, or about as many as his contemporaries Joe DiMaggio and Johnny Pesky played combined. He played across different American eras — he played in the big leagues before bombs fell on Pearl…

Scotty Carson

OK, well, things have cleared up a bit. So to celebrate … well, it’s been way too long since there’s been a curiously long post about something nobody on earth should care about. So here we go.

Seems to me that one of the great questions in the history of sports movies — and, so, one of the great…

A Long Hall of Fame Review

My predictions so rarely come true that I find it comforting, when I actually get one right, to pause and be awed by the sheer unlikeliness of it. This time around, I predicted that Jack Morris would take a huge jump forward in the Hall of Fame voting in 2012 — I said his vote…

Springsteen and an Atlanta Shave

Don’t ask how this New Year’s post will lead to Bruce Springsteen … I’m just kind of hoping it does before the clock strikes midnight and it’s done.

Start with this odd opening sentence: I’m not sure when I stopped caring who cut my hair. Well…

The Three Toughest Outs

Does Robertson have the guts to get the last three outs? (AP) The other day, I heard an announcer call the ninth…

Willie Mays Turns 81

I wrote this blog post — Willie Mays turns 80 — exactly a year ago. I hope to be back blogging like mad in the next week or week and a half, but for now, here is one-year-later rerun as Willie Mays Turns 81.



The most wonderful rock concert I ever saw was an outdoor show in Atlanta…

Fun with WAR

By WAR standards, Hiroki Kuroda is having a Cy Young type season. (Getty Images)OK, so there has been a lot of discussion in baseball…

A Jack Morris Post

… Well, it must be that time of year.

I’ve written so many Jack Morris posts through the years that I think it’s plain: I am entirely on record with Jack Morris.

1. He was a very good pitcher who doesn’t quite reach my Hall of Fame standard.

2. I think he will get elected and inducted into…