The Dick Howser Trophy was created in July 1987 to honor the late Dick Howser, who had passed away in June of the same year after his battle with brain cancer. Howser was a two-time All-American shortstop for Florida State who became a Major League All-Star late...
I write all of this now in tribute to Glenn, who passed away last month after a two-year battle with brain cancer. Playing baseball with him remains my favorite among many memories with him growing up. I didn’t even mind the varsity letter story he told on more than one family occasio...
The story of the grief-stricken baseball exec whose spirits have been lifted by his club’s rousing postseason run -- just 14 months after helost his beautiful wife to an aggressive form of brain cancerat age 45 -- is a powerful subplot to this World Series between the D-backs and Range...
Those same friends and neighbors paid tribute to Coulter Tuesday at the game with shirts that had his favorite phrase on them. "Everything was, 'Classic,'" Kari said. "You would say something, and his one-liner back was, 'Classic.'" The varsity players wore the shirts out on the field...
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was to his one-time friend, the multimillionaire Fleischmann, who had cheated lingering death by cancer some years earlier by putting a bullet through his brain. Ty spoke of Babe Ruth, another cancer victim. “If Babe had been told what he had in time, he could’ve got it over with....
“I would rather stick with aluminum bats. I think there is more danger of wooden bats breaking and flying into players or fans. Kids have good reaction skills and they can react to a ball off an aluminum bat.” York head coach Phil Bodine has been around the game at many different lev...
Let’s all enjoy the baseball version of the Keystone Kops, with players flailing at breaking pitches, dropping balls, and running around the base paths with two left feet. Let’s all ride the idiot bus! There is absolutelynothingwrong with resigning yourself to the awkwardness of life, espe...
(black diamonds) can be calculated independent of skill level including, for example, players such as Chappie Snodgrass (single black point) where their APP occurs at their only major-league appearance. The subsequent rate of decline in skill (B) can then be estimated, for any players with ...
I do notice the great adventures from amazing bloggers in San Diego and or intellectuals with awesome mustaches in Chicago or friends who have seen the better side of cancer in Boston. You all are always with me and whenever I catch a score and it’s your team I think of the Cliff’s...