By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Spring training is the perfect time to pitch my nominee for best story about George Herman “Babe” Ruth. Almost a century ago, the baseball legend visited…
Posts published in February 2023
By Gary Topping– I’ve been a lifelong baseball fan. As a little kid in the late 1940s I used to listen to the World Series on the radio with my…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The start of spring training always reminds me that I was not a very good baseball player. In one season as a little league shortstop, balls…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Although reasonably romantic by nature, I missed what should have been an important landmark in our marriage—our thirty-three and one-third years anniversary. My wife Vicki and…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The most poignant life moments often are unimaginable or inconceivable until they actually occur. That’s the tagline for one of my favorite college memories—late night Sunday…