Cast Your Vote For the 1916 All-Stars!
September 10, 2013 by Mike Lynch · 2 Comments
The Voice of the Fan Will Be Heard! Vote For Your 1916 Midseason All-Stars! The Greatest Baseball Games Ever Played in July! The 1916 All-Star Series, a three game extravaganza pitting the greatest base ball players the world has ever known against one another, will be played July 14 through July 16 at the palatial […]
Talking With Jack Perconte About Comiskey Park, Municipal Stadium, and the Kingdome
June 30, 2010 by Arne Christensen · Leave a Comment
Last year I looked up the story of the first game at the original Comiskey Park on July 1, 1910. Months later I talked with Jack Perconte about his time playing for the Mariners in the mid-’80s to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Kingdome’s implosion this March. I realized that Jack closed his career […]
Lena Blackburne’s Playing Days
December 7, 2009 by Arne Christensen · 3 Comments
I first remember hearing of Lena Blackburne several years ago, when Mike Rowe on Dirty Jobs went over to New Jersey to gather some river mud with Jim Bintliff, the head of Lena Blackburne Rubbing Mud. But his name only stuck in my mind last year, when I saw his name on a list of […]
