“It’s Here! It’s Real! It’s Grand! -Cincinnati Enquirer, 7/1/70 on the opening of Riverfront Stadium Thirty-two years later, Riverfront Stadium was an eyesore; A reminder of the “cookie cutter” multi-purpose stadium trend of the 1970s. But in between being “Grand” and being “oft-mailgned,” as the Enquirer called it the day after it closed for good …
Baseball Twitter is better because Mike Noren is part of it. Noren is the brains, and the pencils, behind Gummy Arts, a Twitter account and related website that showcases hand-drawn baseball cards and lots of nostalgia. The process began in 2015 when his girlfriend bought him a “doodle a day” calendar and he began doing …
The first Opening Day of the new decade brought baseball fans a brand new statistic and the season highlight in an otherwise horrible season for one pitcher. Here’s how things went down on April 9th, 1980. Reds 9, Braves 0 Filling in for an ill Tom Seaver, Frank Pastore draws the Opening Day start for …
Disclaimer: This post has nothing to do with the 1980s. It’s also sappy as hell. I sucked as a baseball player. S-U-C-K-E-D. I was a decent player in t-ball, but once the ball began to move, I began to struggle. There was one game where I was up with a man on 3rd and I …
