Oh how my mother loved baseball! Even on the day that she died she wanted to watch a few innings of an Astro’s game. She thought of baseball as an all American sport, almost an inspirational game with heroes whose faces donned cardboard collectors’ cards. The reality is that once upon a time baseball had a very ugly side. Years after the Emancipation Proclamation African American players were denied access to the big leagues. Instead they were relegated to all black minor league teams despite their talent. All of that changed on this day, April 15, 1947, when the Brooklyn Dodgers debuted their newest player, Jackie Robinson. Continue reading “Play Ball!”
Category: Sports
Where Dreams May Come True
The annual frenzy known as March Madness is now over and a new national championship team wears the crown. The tournament comes by its frenetic name quite naturally because year after year virtually anything might happen as one college battles another. Unlike football that has become somewhat predictable and mostly the domain of universities with large amounts of money to spend, basketball is a sport that is still open to even small somewhat unknown schools. Whether public or private, it doesn’t seem to matter because as the minutes on the clock tick down nothing about the ending is ever certain. More than one Cinderella team has scored a victory in the final seconds making the game of round ball perhaps the most exciting sport on the planet.
Last night Villanova proved once again that all it takes is one sensational play just before the buzzer to humble giants. In an historic victory the team surprised North Carolina by scoring the first ever three point buzzer beater to become the national championship team in the men’s Division I with a score of 77 to 74. Ironically another Villanova team had won the national title way back in 1985 in another stunning upset over then ten point favorite, Georgetown University. It was not their first time to be a spoiler. Continue reading “Where Dreams May Come True”
All It Takes Is A Little Love 