If Montreal Gets Stadium, Indy Team Will Follow
May 12, 2011 by Bob Wirz · Leave a Comment
    The French counterpart to the word “ifâ€, I am told, is “siâ€. Well, si got considerable attention north of the United States border this week.      Miles Wolff, the commissioner of  the Canadian-American League, which this corner tends to shorten to Can-Am, sat down to talk baseball in bustling Montreal this week, along with […]
After Years of Fighting Injuries, Randy Williams Is Having an Unblemished Spring
March 26, 2010 by Bob Wirz · Leave a Comment
If Randy Williams turns out to be so fortunate as to spend all of 2010 with the Chicago White Sox, it will be his first such major league campaign, and he will turn 35 before fall. Williams certainly is off to a great start in following up on the second half of last season when […]
More Shame For Eric Gagne And Another Indy Shortstop Gets to a Big League Camp
February 23, 2010 by Bob Wirz · Leave a Comment
Eric Gagne has spent a chunk of his early days back in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ spring training camp trying to explain his admitted “shame” at the use of human growth hormone (HGH). He needs to apologize on another front, too. The onetime record-breaking closer, who now is trying to get back to the major […]
Gagne Headed Back To Dodgers; Raul Valdes and Roger LaFrancois Also In the News
February 19, 2010 by Bob Wirz · Leave a Comment
Can you go back home? This is not a reference to Tiger Woods, but rather to onetime unbeatable Los Angeles Dodgers relief ace Eric Gagne. Gagne’s problem seems much simpler of the two. His is more a question of how much speed and movement remain on his bread and butter pitches. The Dodgers and Gagne […]