Just as the 1968 baseball season was nearly derailed by the assassination of Martin Luther King,Jr.,and then by the assassination of Robert Kennedy,and nearly again by the turmoil of the Democratic National Convention,my replay has plodded along. Just like that season,that year,that seemed as if it would never end. [...]
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Currently Reading:      | Back on March 29,2011 in a post aptly titled For What It’s Worth,I listed my division and wild card predictions along with my picks for league superlatives. My team predictions were a disaster. I correctly selected Texas as AL West champions,and the Rays as the AL wild card. The problem with the [...] The prevailing thought among baseball fans is that the All-Star Game is not what it used to be even though “this time it counts”since 2002. It is true a generation ago the starters played most,if not all,of the game. Players,not so distant from the public from a pay scale perspective,took [...] Frank Howard is a first time All Star starter with a first half performance that had the Capital Punisher in Triple Crown contention. There have been two consecutive Triple Crowns in the American League –Frank Robinson (1966) and Carl Yastrzemsk (1967). Howard leads the majors with 18 home runs,leads the AL with [...] Angels'rookie Tom Murphy,the sixth overall pick in the January secondary draft,pitched the first no-hitter of my 1968 replay. After many close calls,a no-hitter has finally been registered in my replay of 1968,the famous “Year of the Pitcher”. A rookie,Tom Murphy of the California Angels,wins his first major [...] |  | |||
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