Greetings, baseball fans — are you ready for the unveiling of My All-Star Baseball Card Team? The boss at Sports Feel Good Stories ordered me to write an article about baseball cards and some of the cards that meant the most to me from my collecting days. It’s been a little while since I’ve collected, […]
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Baseball Superstars By The Numbers
Do stats alone determine the top baseball superstars? Baseball fans love to debate who is the best in the game. We decided to take a deep dive into the current leaders in several key categories to find out who is the best of the best. We call it Baseball Superstars By The Numbers. Baseball’s Best […]
Fun Baseball Sayings And Quotes
This collection of baseball sayings and quotes commemorates baseball’s importance in American life, its uniqueness, and similarities to the game of life. Baseball has been America’s pastime for over a century, ushering in American heroes like Babe Ruth, Yogi Berra, Ted Williams, and Derek Jeter. These quotes will also serve to inspire, motivate, and teach […]
Funny Baseball Quotes
If you think America’s national pastime has lost its luster, these funny baseball quotes will remind you of the joy and fun of the game. Perhaps more so than any other sport, baseball seems to attract fun-loving and quirky individuals who have a way with words. To commemorate those folks, we’ve put together this list […]
Life on the Ground Crew With The Big Red Machine
Talk about work ethic. Pete Rose was definitely the hardest working baseball player I have ever seen. I don’t remember the exact year, but Pete was already an established superstar. It was sometime after 1973, the year he won the National League MVP award. Anyway, Pete was going through a hitting slump. At around 11:15 […]
Cardinal Pride: Reflections of a St. Louis Cardinals Fan
On a sweltering summer day in 1960, my father parked our family station wagon and led my mother, my sisters, and me through the front gates of Sportsman’s Park, then the hallowed home of the St. Louis Cardinals. First Day at the Ballpark Until that day, I had known the Cardinals only from the box […]
From History Teacher to Minnesota Twins Curator
How do you get to be the guy with the coolest job in baseball? Well, it all started with just good manners. Major League Baseball’s First Team Curator Clyde Doepner looked at a high stack of mail on his desk his first day back from summer break in 1966. As a high school history teacher […]
The Japanese Babe Ruth: Shohei Ohtani
There is a new sensation in baseball and he is from Japan. He is on a record-breaking spree and if we are to go by the numbers (and even performance on the field), it would not be wrong to claim that he is the Japanese equivalent of the legend, Babe Ruth. The player is Shohei […]
Hank Aaron: Greatest Baseball Hitter
Hank Aaron, the greatest baseball hitter of all time played in a National League city – Atlanta, home of the Braves. Growing up in Kansas City, an America League City, where I first followed the Kansas City Athletics and then the Kansas City Royals, Hammerin Hank didn’t receive a lot of newspaper mentions in the […]
Living the Dream: The Wrigley Rooftop Experience
Wrigley Field is baseball’s Mecca. Wrigley Field is ivy-covered brick walls, Harry Caray singing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” and Ferris Bueller played hooky to attend an afternoon Cubbies game. Celebrating its 100th year birthday in 2014, the old ballpark outshines its host team. The Friendly Confines The Cubs’ sad post-season record hasn’t stopped […]