by admin | Apr 10, 2015 | Baseball Chatter, Welcome Back Senators
As much as we celebrated the return of baseball Tuesday, April 7th at Welcome Back Senators Night, last evening proved it’s really here. Honest. The Senators and Altoona Curve crossed the white lines on a misty, raw 41-degree evening; however, I only witnessed...
by admin | Mar 5, 2015 | Baseball Chatter
Well, it’s snowing again in Central PA. This isn’t the usual March way of signaling spring. That’s the quick, fluffy dusting some of us refer to as “onion snow”. It disappears quickly, ushering in a new season of rebirth. No, this is the...
by admin | Feb 2, 2015 | Baseball Chatter
You may be thinking, “That kind of headline gets tired on February 2nd.” But my thoughts are nowhere close to a prognosticating rodent from Punxsutawney. We’re now less than five full weeks away from actual MLB spring training games. Six weeks from...
by admin | Jan 1, 2015 | Baseball Chatter
Happy 2015! As I recycle the 2014 New Britain Rock Cats calendar in my office and exchange it for a fresh 2015 series of months, I feel anticipation growing. That means we’re one hurdle closer to a new baseball season. Even as a youth, I anticipated the first day of...
by admin | Jun 3, 2013 | Cooperstown, UBT 2013, Ultimate Baseball Trips
Sunday, June 02, 2013 – Waking up in Tomah, Wisconsin First of all, a warning: this series of posts isn’t within six degrees of our Senators baseball (or even Kevin Bacon) connection. However, it has everything to do with our passion for baseball.Our story...
by admin | Apr 18, 2012 | DH
Last night’s Altoona-Harrisburg tilt represented yet another in a long, long, long string of examples why the designated hitter rule needs to be picked up from the curb in the early morning, never to be seen again. Many thanks to Jeff Mandel for proving my...
