Cake’s Presidential Quickies
Today's president is Franklin Pierce. Pierce was the 14th president of the United States, sandwiched between Millard Fillmore and James Buchanan. The 1850s is generally acknowledged to be the worst...
Today's Chief Executive is James K. Polk. Polk was born in Tennessee and built a successful law practice there. He was elected to the US House in 1825 and rose...
Doug Byzewski’s “A Biography in a Thousand Players”
Joe Medwick is most famous for being thrown out of a World Series game for sliding too hard into third. Actually, he wasn’t thrown out of the game, he was...
The thing that hurt Orlando Cepeda was he came up at about the same time as Willie McCovey. So, the Giants had two power hitting first basemen who weren’t that...
191 Orlando Cepeda 742 1B 26 192 Joe Medwick 741.3 LF 20 193 Ted Lyons 741 P 44 194 Norm Cash 740.2 1B 27 195 Willie Davis 740 CF 14...
In 2000 Jeff Kent won the league MVP when everybody I knew that his teammate Barry Bonds had a better season. I think the excuse was that Jeff Kent played...
When I was a kid it use to upset me when writer would write about Jim Kaat and say he would have had a better won-loss record if he hadn’t...
The last shortstop we had was Alan Trammell at 126. It was a good dividing line for shortstops. The next I have is Jimmy Rollins at 226, another a big...
Jim Edmonds made a definite improvement as a hitter in leaving Anaheim and going to St. Louis. I tried to find out why he had such a noticeable improvement but...
I went to a lot of Sky Sox games in the 1990s and when Todd Helton came to first Andres Galarraga was at first and Dante Bichette in left. Helton...
Trevor Hoffman was the best relief pitcher I saw pitch in a live game. I say this, because you never know when you will see a relief pitcher in a...
Roy Smalley was a great player, but it was only 3 months. Everyone expected him to explode into a good player and he did in 1979. It was the first...
The latest from Gary Fletcher
Talking Past Each Other? Good!
Gary, July 8, 2021 I probably engage in more communications online than I do in person. Talking past each other is a common phenomenon even in (or more likely even more than) face to face situations. It consists of me...
Lew Archer and (the) Hooks
Halfway home, just above Emerald Bay, I overtook the worst driver in the world. Ross MacDonald / Gone Girl I’ve always considered Ross MacDonald, known for his series of Lew Archer detective novels, a great writer with a unique,...
What I did During My Pandemic Vacation
My wife and I are an adventurous couple. Unfortunately, there's been this covid-19 thingy that has curtailed our wild lifestyle. Maybe you’ve heard of it? Anyway, for the last year and a bit, there’s been no Bingo, no Casinos and...
Thoughts on Khashoggi
What's the life of one man or one journalist worth, anyway? 1. Even if, cynically, you don't want the occasional murders to get in the way of a big sale, why would Trump even raise the possibility publically? 2. Mike...
Fathers Day
I loved my father. Fathers and sons playing catch – what is it about throwing that baseball back and forth in the yard, anyway? We did so many other things together, after all. So many things shared and remembered by...
1 thought on “Season 9”