Opening Day

Opening Day is a metaphor for life.  It helps inaugurate Spring with hope, the very base of the season’s renaissance. Indeed, any junior high student in French class will tell you that naître, the root of renaissance, means to awaken in the language of love....

The Most Important Person in Dodgers History

Topic:  The most important person in Dodgers history. Discuss.  This could take awhile, if at least one participant bleeds Dodger Blue. Jackie Robinson comes to mind, of course.  His courage opened the door for integration to revolutionize baseball. Branch Rickey...

Happy Birthday, Baseball Hall of Fame!

Today, we celebrate the birthday of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Opened on June 12, 1939 in Cooperstown, New York, the Baseball Hall of Fame is a time tunnel that journeys its visitors through a cornerstone of American history. More than a mere...

Of Baseball and Bombshells

Baseball is full of clichés. So is Broadway. In Game 1 of the 1988 World Series, Kirk Gibson hit a home run in the bottom of the 9th inning to win the game for the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Oakland Athletics. But this moment was not merely a veteran major...