There are really only two ways to enjoy the World Series. One is to actually buy a ticket and be at the game. The other is to to work the third shift somewhere and watch it on TV.
Once again last night — or was it this morning? — the game ended with late action in a 13-to-12 Houston victory over the Dodgers.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers are in the World Series for the first time in 29 years and, apparently, a lot of their fans and players are still living in the ’80s, when ‘she probably throws like a girl’ was a thing. Read more →
A New York Mets fan, ‘thumbs down guy’ couldn’t possibly have known he’d be famous thanks to his expressed displeasure about a New York Yankee homerun hit in his team’s stadium — Citi Field — in September. Read more →
John Manuel, who has been editor-in-chief and writing scouting reports and report cards for Baseball America for two decades , announced today that he’s been hired by the Minnesota Twins. Read more →
Here’s your moment of bittersweetness, courtesy of Jerry Gale, of Brooklyn Park, Minn., who, like a lot of people, marks the passage of time via the game of baseball. Read more →
The Minnesota Twins have the Cleveland Indians, currently the best team in the American League, right where they want them. Read more →
Nobody gets upset when a country music star plays at Target Field, but country music hasn’t stolen baseball’s popularity.
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In lieu of flowers for her father, a daughter recommends people buy baseball tickets instead. Read more →
We interrupt the ongoing horrible news of the day for the NewsCut version of a hit of oxygen: a story about kids and baseball. And a dangerous city. And a man who tries to make a difference in what is probably a lost cause.
Because what other choice do we really have?
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The Minnesota Twins threw in the towel on their playoff hopes nearly two weeks ago, trading a starting pitcher it had acquired for a playoff push days earlier, and sending away its All-Star closer. That earned the scorn of local scribes who ridiculed the team for believing it had a chance at the playoffs in the first place. Read more →
There are some photographs you can waste a Friday afternoon staring at. Read more →
In Fertile, Minn., Ryan Strem has built a baseball field in the shadow of a corn field for the local kids to play ball for free.
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A triple play is one of the more rare events in baseball and a triple play in which a run scores must surely be among the most impossible feats.
Last night, however, Todd Frazier of the dastardly New York Yankees accomplished it.
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When NYPD officer Miosotis Familia was assassinated on July 5, her friends in the department were ready to cancel the outing to Boston’s Fenway Park that she and the others in the 46th Precinct had planned to watch the Yankees play the Red Sox. After all, her funeral was just last week. Read more →
Bob Collins
An all-time catch