It was the best of times, till Nova shot 90 percent (we all know why!) and the best team in the country couldn’t beat a game Nova squad for the 3rd time in a season……
By Mickey M. This was the 2nd round of the tournament, and we got to see some big name teams go at it. USC vs. BC and Kentucky vs Iowa. There were plenty of tickets so we had 3 carloads of people head out to the coliseum just to see the games. Noone had any [...]
by Kent Rogers Looking back at this game, I wonder why I didn’t see more balls fly out of the ballpark. I was back in Texas again (smarter this time by scheduling my meetings there for April instead of the middle of the summer) and as usual our night our started with some good natured [...]
by Joseph Terrazas This story is NOT about the game between the Royals and the Texas Rangers on August, 13th 1990. But it IS about what happened that night……. The Pine Tar Bat, It was David against Goliath, The Team from a small midwestern town challenging the might Yankees in New York. They brought in [...]
by Donald M. This was the year the Newark Bears won the Atlantic League Championship, and we took the ride up to Bridgeport one night for a game. If you’ve read any of the minor league baseball stuff on this site you know by now that I think it’s the best value in sports, and [...]
by the Angry Traveler It’s New Year’s Eve – 90 miles from your house, the New Year’s Party you’re committed to attending and you’ve got 2 tickets to see a bunch of washed up ex-NHL’s drag themselves around the ice for a little while in the City of Brotherly Love. Whaddya gonna do? I’ll tell [...]
by John Santos Bzz…bzzz..bzzz… 4:05am. While most people are still asleep at that time of day, I was up and as ready as I would ever be to get the day going. After taking care of the early morning essentials, the journey was set to begin. While I had made the journey to the barren [...]
By George Haggis A group that included myself and some of my high school buddies decided to head down to Wrigley Field the day of the 1963 NFL Championship Game between the Chicago Bears and the New York Giants. We stood in line for a couple of hours in frigid weather (game time temp. was [...]
by Christal S. At first glance it was hard to tell you were actually sitting in a suite at Ralph Wilson Stadium. Everywhere you looked were gold and black donned Steelers fans. Yellow towels filled the air as the Steelers took the field. Yellow towels that would soon be used to wipe the sweat from [...]
by Donald M. I remember the days when the Staten Island Ferry Terminal was full of guys spraying aerosol cans and lighting the stuff on fire – just for kicks. It was like the movie about all those NY Gangs from the ’80 – a really tacky movie (I hope I remember before I finish). [...]
