My passion for baseball and my hometown Philadelphia Phillies would begin at age nine at the start of the 1971 Major League Baseball season. The 1970's marked the beginning years in my life-long relationship with the game and the decade would close with attending my first World Series in person.
2023 World Series preview and prediction
The 2024 World Series opens on Friday night at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas with the American League champion Texas Rangers playing host to the National League champion Arizona Diamondbacks.
Remembering Tug McGraw on Saint Patrick’s Day
Today is Saint Patrick’s Day. And if you know anything about Frank Edwin ‘Tug’ McGraw, then you know that this is the perfect day to look back on the career of the Little Leprechaun of baseball.
Prime Time: The dual threat of Deion Sanders
When the Super Bowl kicks off tomorrow, there will be a team from Philadelphia competing for the championship, just as there was with the World Series three months ago. But no player from that 2022 Fall Classic will pull on the pads. That has only been done by one player — by “Prime Time,” Deion Sanders
Charlie Finley and the Swingin’ A’s
Charlie Finley's years guiding the A's in Oakland resulted in a 1,091-1,005 cumulative regular season record, three World Series championships, and five American League West Division crowns. They were also some of the most colorful and controversial years in baseball history.
MATT VEASEY 