It’s amazing how baseball’s present can always be connected to its past. As the 2015 Major League Baseball All-Star Game finished, David Price of the Detroit Tigers was the winning pitcher. Zack Greinke of the Los Angeles Dodgers was on the wrong end of a 6-3 American League victory thanks to a first-inning homer by […]
Like most kids growing up, I had a dream of playing Major League Baseball. Notice the word “had” in the first line. By the time I was 10-years old, the dream was over. Ruined in little league by poor talent. After the realization that I wasn’t big league material, it was time to figure out […]
The dust finally cleared on the Franchise Four at the 2015 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Cincinnati. There were 120 players on the list announced prior to the mid-summer classic at Great American Ball Park with four from each of the 30 clubs. Back in May, Shoestring Catches had made some recommendations for fans […]
There was a time in major league history that there were two all-star games played during the season. From 1959 to 1962, there were a pair of games for four seasons to aid the pension fund for the players. However, that was not the first time there was more than one contest played. In 1942, […]
The top performances in Major League Baseball this week were by Johnny Cueto of the Cincinnati Reds and Zack Greinke of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Cueto tossed a two-hit shutout at Washington as the Reds beat the Nationals 5-0 on July 6. He had 11 strikeouts and a walk as he threw 122 pitches. The […]
The tradition of the mid-summer classic known as the Major League Baseball All-Star Game began in 1933. After a few years of discussion about adding this type of affair to the schedule, Chicago Tribune Sports Editor Arch Ward convinced commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis to support the contest as part of the Century of Progress celebration […]
Chuck Stevens is a name that is sometimes forgotten in the history of baseball. Stevens played in three seasons in the major leagues with the St. Louis Browns in 1941, 1946 and 1948. He was a career .251 hitter with four homers and 55 RBI. Born on July 10, 1918, Stevens is one of the […]
A sign that the college football season is getting closer is that the annual media day events will be beginning very soon. The Southeastern Conference is the first one on the list. The SEC is scheduled to meet near Birmingham on July 13-16 in Hoover, Ala. Here is a list of the media days for […]
The top performances in Major League Baseball this week were by Mike Montgomery of the Seattle Mariners and Neil Walker of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Montgomery tossed a one-hitter against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park on Tuesday, June 30. In Seattle’s 5-0 win, Montgomery struck out seven, while walking four as he threw 113 […]
Strat-o-Matic is a baseball simulation that began as a cards and dice game in the early 1960s before entering the computer age. These featured games on Shoestring Catches are part of season replays or tournaments played with cards and dice with a few exhibitions thrown in for fun. Today’s game matches the Baltimore Orioles and […]