It’s no secret that 2008 has been a dismal season for the Padres With only four games remaining at this writing, there’s still a chance they’ll end the season with a hundred losses

There’s a very famous limited-edition 1988 lithograph by renowned sports artist Ron Lewis that features eleven then-living members of the elite 500 Home Run Club The litho, which is aptly entitled “500 Home Run Hitters Club,” was produced in conjunction with an Atlantic city show in 1988 at which these baseball greats gathered

While searching the internet for information about an old establishment that once existed in the sleepy little village in which I grew up in Southern California, I accidently stumbled upon a website dedicated to my high school graduating class of 1964 Intrigued, I decided to stop and take a look around

I became a baseball fan in 1955 while living in Sacramento, California That was the year the Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees in the World Series

Although my comments in this article are primarily directed toward senior citizens sixty-five and above, they could also apply to virtually anyone over fifty-five who is retired or semi-retired and has a lot of extra time on their hands The music business began to dry up for me when I was in my mid-fifties and over ten years away from full retirement age

A few of the intelligent, attractive, and generous folks who have read my book, Pinch Hitter, have commented that I should’ve written more about the history of pinch hitters in my brief description before Chapter One Well, I guess I could’ve done that, but Pinch Hitter is a fictional story about a middle-aged man who becomes a pinch-hitting specialist for his local team