Teddy Ballgame To Be Honored By USPS With Postage Stamp

September 2, 2011 by Jeffrey Brown · Leave a Comment

Red Sox Hall-of-Fame OF Ted Williams was larger than life and possessed the stuff of legend. He was both a baseball hero and a war hero, serving as a naval aviator (USMC pilot) during WWII (1942-46) and the Korean War (1952-53). He was the last baseball player to hit .400 during the regular season while […]

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Billy The Kid

March 15, 2010 by Jon Daly · 1 Comment

People talk about coaching trees in other sports, but I donâ€™t hear much about managerial trees.Â Leonard Koppett and Bill James did touch on the subject in their seminal books on managers.Â By the way, there is a new book on managers that just came out.Â Itâ€™s by a longtime friend of mine named Chris […]

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