Off the Beaten Basepaths #3: The Eastern Shore
May 1, 2012 by Austin Gisriel · 2 Comments
Maryland’s Eastern Shore and the Delmarva Peninsula has a rich baseball history. Hall of Famers Jimmie Foxx and Frank “Home Run” Baker were born there as were many other Major League ballplayers. An excellent musuem, the Eastern Shore Baseball Hall of Fame, is located in Salisbury. But there’s no sense reading about it, when you [...]
Just Another Gated Community
March 27, 2012 by Ted Leavengood · 2 Comments
We arrived back from Spring Training last night, three games in three delightful mad dash days that left us wishing there was time for one more. When I got home there was a wonderful surprise: a copy of the new biography of Bill Veeck by Paul Dickson. I went to sleep reading it. Yes I [...]
Off the Beaten Basepaths: Spring Training 2012
March 19, 2012 by Austin Gisriel · 1 Comment
It wasn’t easy going to Florida for a Spring Training sojourn because it was up to us to have as much fun as possible on behalf of all our friends who couldn’t go. Our motto was We’re having fun because you can’t. It took us 15 days and we drove almost 2,900 miles down, around, [...]
Spring Training, Here We Come!
February 26, 2012 by Austin Gisriel · Leave a Comment
Ah, spring. The time when a young man’s fancy turns to baseball, especially if that young man is now 55 years old. Hope is springing eternal in training camps across Arizona and Florida and fans up north are dreaming that this is the year for their favorite team. Don’t you wish you could go to [...]
Off The Beaten Basepaths
February 18, 2012 by Austin Gisriel · Leave a Comment
It appears quite possible that the Hagerstown Suns, Bryce Harper’s home for the first half of the 2011 season, will be moving to Winchester, Virginia. The Suns of the South Atlantic League had hoped that the city of Hagerstown would either significantly renovate Municipal Stadium or replace it all together, but that hasn’t happened. The [...]
