Memories of the Shot Heard Round the World
August 18, 2010 by Bill Gilbert · 1 Comment
I suspect everyone my age with an interest in baseball knows where they were when Bobby Thomson hit his historic home run in 1951. I was in my 11th grade physics class at South High School in Denver. I was an avid Brooklyn Dodger fan growing up and listened to part of the game on […]
Touring the Bases with…..Craig Wright
June 23, 2010 by Kevin Johnson · 6 Comments
Craig R. Wright was the first of what today would be called a “Sabermetrician” to be hired by a major league baseball team. He was the primary author of “The Diamond Appraised” (1989), and with Texas Rangers play-by-play announcer Eric Nadel has done a radio pre-game show called “A Page from Baseball Past” since 1984. […]