Hail to the Greatest

A visit to the Ali Center in Louisville, about a year before I started writing this blog, was a great travel experience. I was there with my family and some friends of ours on Spring Break, but it wasn’t the reason why we were in Louisville. The Louisville Slugger factory and Mammoth Cave were the

So it’s come to this

I wrote an earlier post about how I had no NCAA brackets to consult this year. The Final Four has now been set, and there are no VCU-type cinderella stories this year. Louisville, Kansas and Kentucky are among the entrenched elite of college basketball, and even the team that wears scarlet and gray has had

Going bracketless this year

2012 is the first year in a very long time that I have no NCAA tournament bracket sheets to keep up with. The four-day college basketball orgy that started today, and continues through Sunday, is as big a ritual as there is in contemporary America. There’s always an office pool, or an online pool, or

An innovative design

I promised more about Jose Cardenal in an earlier post, and here it is. The Louisville Slugger factory and museum is quite an interesting place. For starters, there is a Walk of Fame type of sidewalk display on the streets surrounding it, where you can see home-plate shaped plaques with different players’ names on them.

Seeing what Lincoln saw

Kentucky is geographically close to Illinois. In fact, they share a border along the Ohio River. But when you live in Chicago, Kentucky is actually very far away. Anyone who has driven across Illinois from north to south, or vice versa, can tell you how far it really is. The same is true of New

A strange but exciting feeling

As Mel Allen used to say, “How about that?” It turns out that Major League Baseball decided to include my humble little blog on its MLBlogs page. I just about had a heart attack when I saw my picture splashed across their web page. But I’m not complaining about it one bit, thank you very