Tonight the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes will host their in-state rival the Eugene Emeralds in the first of a three game series, and a six game home stand for the Volcanoes. Although these two teams come in to the series as the bottom two in the West division, both are still at or above a .500 win…
For the past few years the discussion as to whether or not players in the steroid era should be allowed into the Hall of Fame has been an issue that has separated baseball fans. Some fans and ‘purists’ stand firm that the Hall of Fame should not be tarnished by those players who used steroids,…
In only a few hours the Boise Hawks and the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes will kick off the official start of the season for each team. Both teams are looking to the start the season off with a tally in the win column. With teams newly assembled it is hard to say if one team is a…
It is finally here, the start of the Northwest League. For the next two and half months, eight teams full of young men will strive to not only win the league championship but to also show off their talent in an attempt to earn a promotion to the next level. Every player will give it…
I always love going to professional baseball games but I enjoy it even more when I get to go to an entire series. About 4 years ago I went to my first full series, which was an interleague matchup of the Mariners against the Florida Marlins, and really enjoyed that so I have tried to…
As a diehard baseball fan the history of the game is extremely important. Baseball is called “America’s Pastime” because it has been there through the wars, the great depression, through civil rights battles and the constant changes in our nation. For a baseball fan getting the opportunity to experience baseball history live is something that…
So this post is actually going to be a copy of the story that my dad wrote for a local newspaper contest. The topic was stories of people who have met famous people and this story that my dad wrote was about a time when just the two of us went to a baseball game…
Last night I got off of work, jumped into my truck and made my way to Wal-Mart to pick up a few things. About a minute into the drive I flipped to the Mariners game just to see how things were going and the first thing I hear is the score is 8-0 and I…
Normally I don’t just post a video on my blog for every one to see with out really going into detail analyzing what makes the video so important but this video needs nothing more then this. The player plays for Lower Columbia College which is located in my hometown of Longview, WA and this catch…
So I got to wondering what an All-Star team of Volcanoes would look like from the 15 years of existence of the Volcanoes. Now let me make this clear this is not an all-major league team so you wont see guys like Buster Posey and Tim Lincecum who only played a couple of games with…
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