by John D. Pierce | Mar 7, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
I didn’t play a lot of organized sports growing up — but a whole lot of unorganized sports, especially baseball and softball. Rarely did I don a uniform, and I have but one little scratched-up trophy: “Boynton All-Stars 1968.” Coaches weren’t knocking down my doors,...
by Jim Hopkins | Aug 15, 2022 | Opinion
I love baseball because it fills me with many happy childhood memories. I love it because the goal of the game is to return home and because the game proceeds at its own pace – it isn’t completely bound to a time clock. I love it because, as a game in which failure...
by Mitch Randall | Aug 4, 2022 | Opinion
Vin Scully was the radio and television play-by-play announcer for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers for 67 years. For baseball fans, he was a living legend. Paired with former major leaguer Joe Garagiola for nationally televised games on NBC, they were two of the...
by Jack Moline | Jun 21, 2022 | Opinion
There is usually a bit of timeless wisdom that inspires these columns of mine. I will admit that the quotation that provoked this column — “Is this heaven?” — makes no sense out of context. Here is a link to a video of a little more than seven minutes that...
by John D. Pierce | Nov 9, 2021 | Opinion
In Braves Country, we’ve been a little giddy of late about our baseball team that struggled to achieve more wins than losses for more than half the season. Then, despite the loss of key players, went on a run to win the Major League Baseball World Series. But I write...
