If you’ve been to the Hall of Fame, you know what a magical place it is. Set in the small village of Cooperstown, New York, going there almost transports you back into time. But the Hall wasn’t always there, you know. In his new book – A Great Day In Cooperstown, Jim Reisler takes you […]

Art has the Mona Lisa – jewelry, the Hope Diamond. But in baseball cards, the Holy Grail is a 98 year old piece of cardboard, barely 2 and a half inches long and just under 2 inches wide. It’s known simply as “The Card” – a 1909 T206 Honus Wagner. And just how valuable is […]

ESPN’s Tim Kurkjian has penned his reflection of baseball after 25 years behind the typewriter and in front of the camera in his new book Is This a Great Game, or What? I picked it up thinking it was an autobiography – which I am inherently skeptical about. But Kurkjian really doesn’t talk about himself […]

In Just Play Ball, former big league catcher and legendary broadcaster Joe Garagiola has put together 243 pages that will take you on a trip inside the head of a lifelong baseball man. With a combination of stories, opinions, observations and teachings, Garagiola pulls up a chair next to you and shares how he sees […]

1977 was one of the most turbulent years in New York City history – a citywide blackout during a scorching hot summer, the Son of Sam murders, a heated mayoral race, and not to mention, a revolution that was happening with the New York Yankees. Jonathan Mahler paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of this turbulent time […]

This was passed on to me – if you are in the Chicago area, I hope you will be a part of it and support this great cause: WHITE SOX GAME TO SUPPORT REACH OUT AND READ OF ILLINOIS Watch the Chicago White Sox play the Cleveland Indians on Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 7pm […]