Don’t look back

[picapp align=”left” wrap=”true” link=”term=satchel+paige&iid=6251079″ src=”e/8/0/f/Feller__Paige_0079.jpg?adImageId=9058614&imageId=6251079″ width=”234″ height=”351″ /] It’s the middle of the winter, roughly midway from the World Series to the opening of spring training, and I need some baseball inspiration. I found it in this photo of Bob Feller and Satchel Paige, from Oct. 15, 1946. Feller led an All-Star team of American […]

Love those throwback uniforms!

I always get a charge out of the games in which major league ball clubs wear “throwback” uniforms, such as the Pittsburgh Pirates did last night. The Pirates wore the uniforms of the Homestead Grays in defeating the Kansas City Royals, who were wearing Kansas City Monarchs uniforms. Virgil Vasquez (in photo) sports a Grays […]