NEWS Long time Chicago Cub Ernie Banks has passed away at the age of 83. He was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977. He was known as Mr. Cub, he spent all his 19 MLB seasons with the Cubs. The St. Louis Cardinals announced that the team will wear patches on its…
NEWS The Kansas City Royals have extended their manager Ned Yost through the 2016 season. Johan Santana is working on making a MLB comeback. He is currently pitching in Venezuelan Winter League. Jamey Carroll has joined the Pittsburgh Pirates as a Special Assistant to the Baseball Operations staff. He had a 12 year MLB career…
By Guest Writer Wayne McBrayer: At the age of 6, I walked into San Diego Stadium to watch the Pittsburgh Pirates play the San Diego Padres in 1972. My very first memory wasn’t the great Roberto Clemente making a great throw from right field or Clay Kirby throwing fastball with high velocity, it was fans…
NEWS The BBWAA elected 4 new Hall of Fame members and that is the first time that has happened since 1955. Randy Johnson (97.3), Pedro Martinez (91.1), John Smoltz (82.9) and Craig Biggio (82.7). The next closest were Mike Piazza (69.9), Jeff Bagwell (55.7), Tim Raines (55.0), Curt Schilling (39.2), Roger Clemens (37.5), Barry Bonds…
Guest Writer Daniel Foote: The crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd, the different smells of the ball park are all things that bring back memories of my childhood. Baseball has been such a large part of my life and a part of me that my first memory in life is being at…
By Guest Writer Dennis Gronau: Born & raised in Portland, Oregon means not many chances to attend Baseball games. At the young age of 7 I started watching WGN & fell in love with the Chicago Cubs. Watching Harry Carey & Steve Stone broadcasting the games to my living room made it that much more…
With the Holidays and New Year’s over let’s hope the Hot Stove starts to heat up again. Still a few big free agents left in Max Scherzer and James Shields. Also a few teams still have an overabundance of outfielders and will need to make trades, Padres and Red Sox, just to need a few.…
I joined the IBWAA in October of this year and was extremely excited to vote for the Hall of Fame. As a baseball fan I have always had my picks to who I thought should be voted in but they never counted towards anything, until this year. I took this honor very seriously and here’s…
2014 was full of changes for the 9 Inning Know It All crew. Josh moved back to his hometown of Longview, WA, Norm got married, and Kelly…well he has 3 daughters so crazy is a better word to describe his year. Through it all we have enjoyed sharing our thoughts about baseball with everyone. Check…
(Kelly’s Thoughts) Everyone here in the Pacific Northwest knows that Edgar Martinez belongs in the Hall of Fame. Will he ever get there I don’t know but I asked a friend of mine who is a big supporter of Edgar to write a little something on why he thinks he is a Hall of Famer. By Aaron…
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