Day 30, St. Louis
Since the airline bandits wanted $1,600 to fly home I thought it might be a good idea to drive from St. Louis to Chicago, have dinner with friends Saturday and fly home Sunday. However, the travel...
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The Philadelphia-Phoenix-Philadelphia-Milwaukee-St. Louis-Milwaukee-St. Louis-Dallas-St. Louis-Chicago trip was over. Included was a side trip to the Milwaukee Admirals to write about hometown boy —...
View ArticleHank Andrulis, better than Votto?
Legendary Toronto sandlot coach Bob Smyth read our blog during the National League Division Series about standing in the St. Louis Cardinals dugout waiting to speak to Chris Carpenter when a guy in...
View ArticleBig Daddy Cecil speaks to Ontario Blue Jays HOF class
You won’t find the name Chip Banks listed on baseball-reference. You will find the name Chip Banks on pro-football-reference.com It was Banks, an future NFL linebacker, who helped steer slugger Cecil...
View ArticlePlenty of Canadian soccer, but TV shuns baseball
It was with great pride that I watched Team Canada women’s soccer team qualify for the 2012 London Olympics. Canada beat Mexico 3-1, led by Christine Sinclair and Melissa Tancredi. When it was over...
View ArticleCoach Roach, Belichick, Madden and WYO-Mania IX
Our annual trip to Wyoming each fall — WYO-Mania — is always special. Yet the 2011 WYO-Mania IX was extra special. The night before the Wyoming Cowboys thumped the New Mexico Lobos to move to 7-3 about...
View ArticleSad seeing Capt. Jeter go down
Am not sure the first press box I ever went into — there wasn’t one a VIMY when I had my first byline as the Montreal YMCA edged the Kingston YMCA by a point in the final of the a biddy basketball...
View ArticleGetting there is half the fun, OK 10% of the fun
Getting from New York to St. Louis is easy … easy as the Blue Jays winning without Jose Bautista. Not that anyone cares about the woes of a ball scribe jetting around the country but here was my day …...
View ArticlePinero, Collymore commit
Infielders Daniel Pinero and Malik Collymore have signed their letters of intent for next fall. Both played for Danny Bleiwas’ Ontario Blue Jays and have worn the Canadian Junior National Team colours...
View ArticleKoppett’s Law rules
Three hours before Game 5 in St. Louis, I bumped into a Detroit Tigers scout in the press box at Busch Stadium and extended congratulations, Then, I asked him who he thought would win. The San...
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