It is odd to gauge my own reaction to this media release from the Los Angeles Dodgers. The famous Dodger Dog, the meat tube in a bun sold at Dodger Stadium since 1962, is now available at “more than 500” ampm mini-marts in much of Southern California. My first reaction?

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Miami Marlins shortstop Dee Gordon, the National League batting champion, last week was suspended 80 games by Major League Baseball for failing a drug test. This came only a few weeks after outfielder Chris Colabello of the Toronto Blue Jays also was hit with an 80-game ban. (And also expressed puzzlement how he failed a […]

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Many baseball people like to say “the triple is the most exciting play in the game.” I prefer the triple play. Seven hundred and three triple plays have been recorded in the history of the game, going back to 1876, and the 703rd was turned tonight in Chicago by the White Sox against the Texas […]

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One of the reasons I did not play Little League baseball, besides being too shy to join a team of kids I did not know, was the possibility of being hit by a pitch. I knew how hard a baseball was. I remember my 9- or 10-year-old self tossing one, squeezing it in my hand […]

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Well, it’s good news in my view of the world, anyway. We don’t have to be negative all the time, do we? Let’s do a list to celebrate some of the uplifting or inspirational or remarkable. For one day, anyway.

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These must be hard times for baseball fans in the greater Los Angeles area. The Dodgers have a chance to be good, but they cannot be seen by most fans. (Because of that ridiculous Time Warner Cable mess.) The Angels can be seen by almost all fans, but no one should have to watch them. […]

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A professional acquaintance of mine, Bill Plunkett of the Orange County Register, has been a traveling baseball writer for 20-plus years and has covered games in all 30 of the current Major League Baseball stadiums. Not many people have done that. Journeyman ballplayers, traveling baseball writers who have done both leagues, and ultra fans, I […]

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While preparing for our annual fantasy league, the strongest unexpected impression I got, from examining 30 Major League teams … was how bad so many of them are. Baseball has a half-dozen no-hope teams right out of the gate. And probably closer to a dozen. And I am not thinking of 78-84 bad. I’m thinking […]

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The Sun Baseball League is made up of 12 owners who have two things in common: They 1) once worked in the San Bernardino Sun sports department and they 2) love baseball. The first season was played in 1983 and the draft for the 34th season was held over five hours on Wednesday night (or, […]

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I enjoy watching the chase for party nominations for president of the United States. I have found this fascinating since I was a child; I remember watching the 1964 Republican Convention that nominated Barry Goldwater instead of Nelson Rockefeller. I also am a baseball fan, and was well ahead of Goldwater. It strikes me that […]

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