Showing posts with label Baseball. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baseball. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Monday, March 9, 2026
Friday, May 2, 2025
Friday, March 28, 2025
Sunday, March 9, 2025
New Alex Box Stadium
When they opened the new LSU baseball stadium a photographer I knew was hired to fly over and take some pics. I went along for the ride and was terrified every second.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Box_Stadium,_Skip_Bertman_Field
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
[Baseball game]
- Postcard showing a baseball game being played on a field probably in Buffalo, New York, as spectators watch; houses and buildings in the background; sign advertising Goldenson's Furniture Store on field.
- 1915.
- https://www.loc.gov/item/2009632650/
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Saturday, September 24, 2022
Saturday, September 17, 2022
Sunday, September 11, 2022
Albert Pujols - 697 Home Runs
Two in the last two days to tie and pass Alex Rodriguez. Still time to get 700. Go Albert.
PITTSBURGH -- St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols hit his 697th home run and moved past Alex Rodriguez for fourth place on the career list, connecting Sunday against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Pujols hit his 18th home run of the season, a two-run drive in the ninth inning that put the Cardinals ahead 3-2. He also homered Saturday night.
Pujols trails Barry Bonds (762), Hank Aaron (755) and Babe Ruth (714) on MLB's all-time homer chart.
The 42-year-old Pujols has 21 games left in his 22nd and final season in the big leagues.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Wu's TV Corner #23: Once a Hero
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/09/once-hero.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1089400/
1987 ABC. "Triangle." Very short-lived superhero and hard-boiled private detective show. Robert Forster as Gumshoe, Jeff Lester as Captain Justice, Caitlin Clarke, Miles O'Shea, Josh Blake, Diane Kay. IMDb summary:
The creator of comic superhero Captain Justice, Abner Bevis, is in a rut, repeating old storylines. The comic's owners want to kill the strip off due to falling sales, and children are losing interest in it. This transfers itself to the world of the comic strip, Pleasantville, where Justice realises his adventures are repeats, and the characters of the world are starting to fade. So Justice crosses into the real world. He finds he has lost his superpowers, but the comic's Gumshoe has followed him and is looking out for him. His antics create renewed interest in the strip. Bevis is inspired to make Justice more contemporary, and the owners agree not to cancel it.
Typical Friday night. "A little TV, late night snack." I remember I liked this show. Forster is giving him the business about watching old movies on a Friday night. He says my show is about to start. Captain Justice knows no fear. Certainly not women. He's been watching Oprah. Lobster Man, on the other hand, is all hands. Handsy on the first date. With Rachel (Diane Kay), Captain Justice's girlfriend. She says she thinks of Lobster Man as a friend and that's all. "It's him, isn't it?!"
No wonder I liked this show the first time I came across it on Youtube. This is a good show. Robert Forster is great as Gumshoe. Rachel has gotten herself into some trouble and it is up to Captain Justice to come to her rescue. In typical superhero, damsel in distress fashion, including all the cliches. When Abner meets her he sees she is the spitting image of an old flame. The scene at the end when Robert Forster asks Captain Justice what he is watching on TV, and he says it is the colorized version of The Maltese Falcon. The wince shot on Forster's face at that moment is great. This is the only episode available on Youtube and it has been up for a long time. Same one I watched years ago. A shame more episodes haven't shown up. Only three aired originally. They made a total of seven. A lost gem.
Friday, April 8, 2022
St. Louis Cardinals, 1911
My sports fandom has not yet recovered from Covid. Baseball season has started. I used to listen to all the Cardinals night games on the radio and read. Now I watch stupid crap on Youtube and read Wikipedia. Listening to baseball on the radio will be very useful for me trying to reread Noble House again at 1200 pages. It's a fun book if you get into it and read it for a while every night. Cardinals won their first game against the Pirates. Play again tomorrow and Sunday day games.
Friday, March 4, 2022
Thursday, February 3, 2022
Magnum, P.I. - Squeeze Play
Season four, episode seven. Another favorite Magnum. Softball team. Dick Shawn, Eddie Deezen, Peter Isacksen. Orson Welles as the voice of Robin Masters. From Nov. 17, 1983.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0639724/
http://magnum-mania.com/Episodes/Season4/Squeeze_Play.html
Other anecdotes from the softball game:
- Magnum's team was called "The Paddlers". They wore a King Kamehameha Club cap, and the letters "KKC" appeared on the back of their blue-white jerseys.
- Magnum played shortstop and hits left-handed, but throws right-handed. He wore #14.
- T.C. played first base and hits and throws left-handed. He wore #32.
- Rick played catcher, then later pitcher, and he hits and throws right-handed. He wore #Seven.
- Magnum chews Red Man smokeless tobacco when playing.
- Magnum made an ultra-rare 6-3 triple play to get Rick out of a jam.
- Higgins is the third base coach (despite the fact that he hates the game).
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Umpires, World Series, '13
1913 [October 7] Photograph shows managers and umpires before Game One of the 1913 World Series on October 7 at the Polo Grounds in New York City. From left to right: Danny Murphy, Philadelphia Athletics team captain; Cy Rigler, left-field umpire; Bill Klem, home plate; John Joseph (Rip) Egan, infield; Tom Connolly, right field; and John McGraw, manager of the New York Giants.
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