Archive for May, 2006

Have You Seen Me?

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

105 at bats into the season it’s obvious that something is amiss with Griffeys ability to take a walk and he sits on a .298 on base percentage.
Stop the presses!!!
No don’t…. but let’s keep an eye on this at least.

Ken Griffey has not been walking since July of last year, in fact he had more […]

Baseball Archelogy - Fielding Minutia

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

One of the fun things about the game is the vast areas of history that one can get lost in, the people, places and events wash over the game like a wave, a never ending barrage of events that are so very different and yet so very much the same. Looking through the pictures of […]

Have the Reds ever had pitching? 1950-1959

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

“Warren Giles was the type of general manager who would say, “Sign this contract or stay home.”
Hank Sauer
“There was no money in those days, even after my great season in 1947, I got only a small raise, up to $13,000.
I asked for more but that didn’t do any good.”
Ewell Blackwell
YEAR […]