“For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice…
Tag: Major League Baseball
20 Years Ago: The 1994 MLB Players’ Strike
Twenty years ago, Major League Baseball suffered the longest work stoppage in its history. The 1994 players’ strike was brought about because of a long-standing acrimony between players and owners,…
2014 MLB Season Wrap-Up
A few weeks ago, one of the founding fathers of Place to Be Nation, Scott Criscuolo, asked me to write an end-of-season MLB wrap up. To which I asked, “How…
PTBPR : MLB Power Rankings August 2014
Welcome to the Place to Be Nation’s MLB Power Rankings! My apologies for going over a month between these, but real-life got a little hectic for a while there. I’ve…
A Look at the 2014 MLB Hall of Fame Class
This weekend, Major League Baseball, and fans from all over the world, will converge on the tiny village of Cooperstown, New York, to celebrate the history of our National Pastime…
PTBPR: MLB Power Rankings — First Half 2014
We’re at the All-Star Break, the “unofficially-official” halfway point of the baseball season, so it’s time for another installment of the Place to Be Nation MLB Power Rankings! Here’s the…
The Bower Show #35: The State of Major League Baseball
On this episode of THE BOWER SHOW PODCAST: Bower & Jeff (once again) get into a heated debate on why the New York Yankees fell below .500 in the month…
Celebrating Timmy
No-hitters are weird. They can be thrown by one person. Or several. They can be thrown against dynamic, record-setting offenses. Or against schmucks that more closely resemble a Triple-A squad.…
In Memoriam: Tony Gwynn 1960-2014
In 1997, two of the greatest artists of all time got together for a conversation about their passion and their profession when Ted Williams and Tony Gwynn sat down to…
