Every time I am at a baseball or softball game, watching a game on TV with friends, or enjoying the game on the radio, I can’t help but further my appreciation for good friends/family, cold beer, relaxation, and beautiful MN weather. I don’t know if it is just me, but hot dogs...
Completing my twelfth year at 1390 Granite City Sports with your weekly amateur baseball (Town Team) reports. Including game summaries, upcoming schedules, league standings, tournament summaries and an occasional special interest feature. The plan is to continue to include: Arrowhead West/Section 2B:...
Take “Scary Movie.” In one scene that spoofs the opening of “Scream,” Carmen Electra plays a woman being chased through her house by a masked, knife-wielding intruder. Armed with a baseball bat, she throws open the front door and clubs two masked people standing on her porch--only t...
Van Beek had never met anyone quite like John. He was fond of him, even with that big mouth of his. John wanted to be a singer, and the Minnesota Twins baseball team later asked him to perform the national anthem before a game. The doctor was invited as well. John took this as an...
CENTRAL MINNESOTA TOWN BALL REPORT Completing my twelfth year at 1390 Granite City Sports with your weekly amateur baseball (Town Team) reports. Including game summaries, upcoming schedules, league standings, tournament summaries and an occasional special interest feature. The plan is to continue to ...
“Sometimes you feel that one player might do it, and that’s the temptation that you have,” Jackie Autry said. “With Gene’s age, there are times I get a sense of panic from our people in baseball operations that if we don’t do it this year, he might not be around next year...
Advertisement 1934: He transfers to NBC’s WHO radio station in Des Moines, where he re-creates professional baseball and Big 10 football games from the studio for the radio audience by reading telegraph accounts. In Hollywood 1937: While on a trip to California to cover spring training of th...