The Class of '17
The distinguished class of 2017 is led by Milton Conrad Schmidt who came to us from Kitchener as the D'Artagnan of the fabled Kraut line and became the face of a noble hockey franchise for 80 years. Rarely ...
Christmas pudding
Tis the season for counting our blessings and if you are devoutly the fan of the professional fun and games we revel in hereabouts all four seasons it doesn't get much more satisfying. Face it. You've ...
Hall of Fame politics
Baseball has two more "immortals." Hurrah! Neither of them is named Marvin Miller. Boo! Somehow they've done it again. They've managed with the customary and clever corporate gymnastics to again insult ...
Hot Stove time
The heat is arising on the Hot Stove! With the countdown to the Winter Meetings underway, Baseball's winter season formally launches. For the game's charter member nerds who groove on its byzantine inner-workings ...
Baseball votes on vets
It's that time again. A 16-man committee of distinguished keepers of the American Pastime's flame is about to gather in Cooperstown to decide who should be canonized this time; or more precisely who will ...
Bruins 2017-2018 edition
Whither goest, Bruins? That is the question. And it is only mid-November; not even Thanksgiving yet. Maybe too soon to kiss off an entire hockey season. But not too early to wonder if -- when all's said ...
Baseball wrap up 2017
There is a season for everything, the Good Book tells us. But Major League Baseball alone boasts of a season that is endless, perpetual. Seamlessly we now slide from the torrid on the field action -- ...
Early fall thoughts
Catching up with a bit of this and that while waiting for the leaves to turn and ponds to ice. Managers on the go Unprecedented is this business of the World Series being upstaged by managerial merry-go-rounds ...
