OBSERVATIONS: How about all those one-hitters?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after we opted out of hosting a 14-person Thanksgiving dinner. Now Nadine and I have enough food to feed the University of Dayton and Wright State University basketball teams combined. —Anybody worthy of the price of a baseball knows that Nolan Ryan threw seven no-hitter. But […]
OBSERVATIONS: Trader Jack McKeon turns 90 and is still in baseball
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and it seems like Christmas every day because Amazon delivers a package or two every day. —Former Cincinnati Reds manager Trader Jack McKeon turned 90 this week and remains active in baseball as a special consultant with the Washington Nationals. Until he had triple bypass surgery […]
OBSERVATIONS: Just how fast did Bob Feller throw his fastball?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave still speed-watching The Black List. We’re through episode 17 of the third year. Long way to go, but I love Robert Reddington. —Nowadays, if a major league pitcher can’t throw a four-seam fastball 99 or 100 miles an hour, he must need Tommy John surgery. It […]
OBSERVATIONS: Obi’s mom drove him, now she drives her own car
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, where it brought to tears myself when I saw Obi Toppin sobbing with joy after the New York Knicks select him No. 1 in the NBA draft: —What kind of son is the former University of Dayton’s ‘Dunkin Delight’ Obi Toppin? A mother’s delight. Toppin doesn’t […]
OBSERVATIONS: When Cincinnati nearly turned Vida Blue into red
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave waiting to see which NBA team makes Obi Toppin a multi-millionaire. And you have to love what Toppin said when asked if his Dayton Flyers would have won the NCAA tournament if the pandemic hadn’t intervened: “Hell, yeah.” —It was December, 1977 and baseball’s winter meetings […]
OBSERVATIONS: The day John Elway broke my heart
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, leaving briefly to answer the door to see what Amazon had delivered today because it stops at our house daily, as if it is a bus stop. —As any fan worth their brown and orange knows, the Cleveland Browns have not played in a Super Bowl. […]
OBSERVATIONS: Bring Montreal back to Major League Baseball
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after a full weekend of watching college football, mostly a bevy of lopsided games and wondering how close next Saturday’s Ohio State-Indiana game will be. . .or if it even will be played. The Buckeyes have won 15 straight over the Hoosiers since losing, 41-7, in […]
OBSERVATIONS: A tale from the streets of New York
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, mesmerized in front of the TV watching The Masters, missing Tiger’s roaring gallery but thankful they aren’t piping in fake noise. —There are times when a baseball writer deserves combat pay and a Kevlar vest. After a night game in the junkyard they called Shea Stadium, […]
OBSERVATIONS: Johnstone, ‘The Prince of Pranks,’ passes away
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, sitting bleary-eyed in my La-Z-Boy at 8 a.m., wondering why I would stay up to watch the Jets-Patriots. I believe it is call acute sportsitis. Recommended treatment: Not treatable, just make certain the patient has a TV in sight and a remote in hand at all […]