Tag: mountain empire league
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Snit
The Atlanta Braves won the National League East every year since 2018, including the shortened, Covid-ravaged 2020 season, winning the World Series in 2021. They won more than 100 games in both 2022 and 2023. Both of those streaks ended this year. Atlanta won 89 games and, with a win in game #162, just barely snuck into…
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“MAN”-NED OVERBOARD
Yes, they are still playing baseball in places like Trenton, New Jersey and Boise, Idaho and Kane County, Illinois, and throughout my home area of Northeast Tennessee. Fans still go out and root for the home team, and enjoy their nights at the ballpark. But it is not the same. Why? Because the Commissioner of Baseball, and his…
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RIDING WITH AN ALL-TIME GREAT
Every so often, someone asks the question “Who is the most famous person you’ve ever met?” You see it on Facebook every now and then, and sometimes it becomes a topic of conversation at a party or other such gathering. It takes me no time at all to give my answer: Joe DiMaggio. If you’ve read…
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THANK YOU, WHOEVER YOU ARE
My wife and I are approaching our 39th wedding anniversary, and though we were not young when we tied the knot, we are hoping that we will be able to stay healthy (and coherent) enough to eventually celebrate fifty years. That will, I expect, be something special, we’ll have to have an extra portion of jello to…