For many Years, many years ago, I read a Weekly neighborhood newspaper. I read it for what would later be Termed hyperlocal news, but the gazette was quirky and so Also a source of entertainment....
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Byways Boys Grounded "Walk-off wins hit different" Our circuitous spring trip through the southeast ended with Jeff Wehler hitting a walk-off home run. If you know what to look for, you ca...
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We've been told a few things over the years: "You were speeding" (Texas; I was); "There may be nudity" (Oregon; there was); "Hey! No photographs!" (Massachusetts; OK, fine). But this was the f...
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Melvin, Watson, Bragdon and I attended the Patriots Day game at Fenway, the middle game of the three that comprised the first tour of 2023. Our day-trip to Boston was bracketed by minor lea...
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Or many of them, anyway, when Melvin and I toured the Upper Midwest in late-August, early-September. Haldeman, behind the wheel, and Melvin Watson was along on the first and last days, and ...
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If you read the previous post and were wondering if we went to Nevada and California, we did. And we went to Manzanar National Historic Site , as mentioned. Melvin and I met in Las Vegas....
Okay, yeah, it's been a long time and a lot has changed. Let's leave it at that. Like the Mets, Rob started the season on the road, watching the team outlast the Phillies yesterday , 9-6, in an...
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On Wednesday, the 30 Major League Baseball teams "invited" four teams each to form their respective minor league systems beginning in 2021. (Whether or not there will be a minor league baseball s...
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Well, today is the day when, theoretically, we would have been able to say, with all the usual fine print, that we had seen every affiliated baseball team, in both the major and minor league...
At the end of July, into early-August, I took a trip that included a couple of baseball games and destinations in-between. It was a weak substitute for the four or five trips Melvin and I once pl...
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When MiLB President and CEO Pat O'Connor announced on Tuesday that the 2020 season is canceled, he was only making official what has been long anticipated. What is especially disappointing ...
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Before the Coronavirus put major and minor league baseball on hold (at best), Melvin planned to return to Florida on his own this weekend to see the Dunedin Blue Jays and Florida Fire Frogs at, ...
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Today is Jackie Robinson Day. Like so many events right now that are usually celebrated in person, we will need to go online to collectively observe the date when Jack Roosevelt Robinson bro...
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Or, the Baseball Byways winter meeting. Yorkville Melvin, Watson and I met in Chicago to see singer-songwriter-producer Joe Henry at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Joe performed half of...
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Originally announced to open in 2010 , the anticipated debut of the Jackie Robinson Museum was revised a year ago to December 2019. I recently went to the Jackie Robinson Foundation's website ...
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At the end of September, I visited my father outside of Portland, Oregon, where many people refer to the city by its airport code as if coming and going by air was the Number One recreational act...
Well, it came to an end for the Mets today, eliminated from the hunt in the last week of the season—which really is not a shameful condition, all told. It reminded me of the more positive (alb...
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Looking out the window of a B41 bus , I spotted a car* with a New York Yankees custom license plate personalized with, "23 1B." It reminded me of Melvin's post, "Are you ... Tony Campana?" ...
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Who—or what—exactly is buried here? (Wytheville, Va.) Happy belated birthday, Murica! Rob and I celebrated the occasion by observing the many contradictory qualities of this alternately ...
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"What the hell is that? Burn it with fire!" said Watson, when she saw this picture. Nothing against Roberto Clemente, but the hybrid-lizard look is inherently unflattering. So we headed to F...
It's a rhetorical question, I think. Daniel Klennert can probably tell you more. With this year's first trip looming rather alarmingly—in two days we'll be back in Port Charlotte, ho...
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Burn, baseball, burn! (Not an Alan Smithee film) I interrupt the already extremely belated coverage of the August 2018 Northwest trip to answer the timeless question, "Hey, where are you guys ...
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Foliage at twelve o'clock It is a truth universally acknowledged that if a stranger tells you that you "might" encounter "incidental nudity" at his house , you will, in fact, see him naked f...
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In 2013, my friend Kate Briquelet wrote a story for the New York Post that didn't bury the lede. > "A TriBeCa museum dedicated to Jackie Robinson is three years > overdue — and ...
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Sometimes, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs. Today wasn't a letdown per se, but it was slower than normal. We began with some tolerable doughnuts at Voodoo Doughnuts in Eugene. Apparently this ...
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