Covering Baseball in the Mid-Atlantic
s
NEW LINKS
|
A very sad goodbye to our good friend, and SABR member, Ron Gabriel. Go Dodgers!
Funeral services for Ron Gabriel are being handled by the DC-based Torchinsky Hebrew Funeral Home, but will be held at the Judean Memorial Gardens at 16225 Batchellors Forest Road in Olney, Maryland just off Georgia Avenue, next Wednesday, June 24th at 11:00 A.M. |
That's Funny!
|
"You don't save a pitcher for tommorrow. Tommorrow it may rain." Leo Ernest "The Lip" Durocher Brooklyn Dodgers Manager
"Never win 20 games because they will expect you to do it every year." William "Billy" Loes Brooklyn Dodgers Pitcher |
TO DO
Join Orioles rookie outfielder Nolan Reimold at the ESPN Zone in Baltimore's Inner Harbor on June 18th. From noon until 1. Nolan will be signing autographs, meeting fans, and taking part in an interactive Q&A session, led by O's Radio Network broadcaster Joe Angel.
The Bowie Baysox will host the 8th Annual Negro League Tribute Event on June 20th. Special pre-game ceremonies to honor the players will begin at 6:30 pm. Many of the former players will be on hand during the game to meet with and get autographs from on the stadium concourse.
Replica Homestead Grays Negro League Cap giveaway to the 1st 1,250 fans ages 3 & up to enter the ballpark (limit one per person) courtesy of Dietz & Watson
Meet The Team Session with Baysox players and coaches on June 21st, 12:30 - 1:15 pm. Game time is 2pm.
This years SABR National Convention will take place July 30th August 2nd. This years site is Washington, D.C. For more information please check out the convention website.
TO READ
Heart of the Game: Life, Death, and Mercy in Minor League America (Hardcover) by S.L. Price (Author)
From the author of Pitching Around Fidel and Far Afield comes an account of the accidental death of minor league first base coach Mike Coolbaugh, illustrating the many ways in which baseball still has a hold on America.
Heart of the Game centers on the death of Mike Coolbaugh, a minor league coach who was killed on a sweltering Sunday evening in Little Rock in July 2007 when a foul ball rocketed off Tino Sanchez's bat. Coolbaugh died almost instantly, his body carted off the field of the Double-A Arkansas Travelers. He was thirty-five years old and the father of two; a third child was on the way.
Baseball News from around the country.