PROPHETS GET MARTYRED

by Peter Lemieux | Aug 29, 2022 | Life=Baseball

Most people believe that it was Jackie Robinson that broke the color barrier in baseball when he played a game for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. That may be true, but he was not the first black man to play in the Majors Leagues. That story is an indictment of the...

Red Sox Regret

by Peter Lemieux | Aug 26, 2022 | Life=Baseball

Pablo Sandoval played six successful seasons for the San Francisco Giants. During the seven seasons, they won three World Series. In the Series of 2012, he hit three home runs in game 1 and was named the Most Valuable Player of the World Series. He was affectionately...

ONE AMAZING STORY

by brendan | Aug 25, 2022 | Life=Baseball

August 19th in 1900 Rube Waddell pitched two complete games in one day. This was amazing because in the first game, he pitched 17 innings. While the second game only lasted 5 innings, he did pitch all 22 innings of a double header allowing only 1 run. While this is...

TIME WILL TELL

by Peter Lemieux | Aug 24, 2022 | Life=Baseball

Sometimes people get recognized for accomplishments that become insignificant in time. We have all met people who can tell us how great they were at a sport when they were 10 years old and hit a home run in Little League. Those memories are for your parents but don’t...

WHAT COULD GO WRONG WITH THIS?

by Peter Lemieux | Aug 23, 2022 | Life=Baseball

Some marketing ideas make sense in the Boardroom but don’t play out well in real life. Such an idea was attempted in Cleveland in 1974. The Cleveland Indians played in Municipal Stadium for many years. It was a gigantic stadium with a seating capacity of almost 75,000...