Salivation Army
Robbie Alomar doesn’t mean spit to me anymore. That wasn’t so in Baltimore around 1997, the year a friend, Lisa Pollak, won a Pulitzer Prize for her story about the umpire upon whom Alomar hocked a...
View ArticleSeven Retired Players the Yankees Need to Sign
For almost two decades, the Baltimore Orioles pretty much perfected the art of signing aging superstars at just the right moment of career decline. During these two decades, the Orioles were for the...
View ArticleB&C’s Ballot: Tough Crowd
Only one of you got in? One?! I thought chicks dug the long ball…? We Kershawed it out. We were able to vote up for up to ten nominees on an absolutely loaded ballot, but our message was clear: Abandon...
View ArticleWhen the Promise of ’93 met the Preeminence of ’94
Alright, yes, at one point the Montreal Expos traded Grady Sizemore, Cliff Lee and Brandon Phillips to rent Bartolo Colon, but desperate times called for desperate measures. With the glaring exception...
View Article’94 Expos: Opening day as harbinger
Twenty years ago today, the Montreal Expos began the season under the Astrodome in Houston with perhaps the best team in franchise history, and this opener was the very definition of foreshadowing....
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