Cake’s Presidential Quickies
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 to become Speaker; to this day, he is the only...
Today's Chief Executive is Chester (or Chet, as I like to call him) Arthur, the 21st President of the United States. He was succeeded by a Grover, a Teddy, a Bennie, two Willies and a Woody and preceded by an...
Today's Chief Executive is Harry Truman, failed haberdasher and artillery battery commander. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri in 1884 and worked on the family farm into his twenties, when he was drafted into the Army and served in...
Today’s featured Chief is Millard Fillmore, the 13th President of the United States. Fillmore was a congressman from New York State when he was chosen to be Zachary Taylor’s running mate. Fillmore was chosen because he had actual positions on...
Today's chief executive is Grover Cleveland, the 22nd AND 24th President of the United States. Cleveland is the only president ever that the people said "Hey, how about we elect that guy we had before?" Cleveland was born in...
Doug Byzewski’s “A Biography in a Thousand Players”
Mickey Cochrane was a great catcher, but his career was so short. He played only 13 years and 2 of those years were where he had a nervous breakdown the first season and received a beanball that affected his play...
Here are the players I ranked 121at thru 130th: 121 Mickey Cochrane 827 C 12 122 Gary Sheffield 827 RF 13 123 Justin Verlander 825 P 24 124 Mike Mussina 824 P 25 125 Fred Clarke 822 LF 12 126...
Imagine you just got married and you fly to San Francisco for you honeymoon with the bride you courted for years. You have an important management job with your Father-in-Law who you have a good relationship. The plane lands and...
Jim Thome reminds me of Harmon Killebrew. Thome did hit his 600th homerun while with the Twins. Both were muscular guys who didn’t hit for great average but had great power. Both walked a lot, weren’t great base runners and...
I think the four relief pitchers so far are the best at what they did. Marino Rivera was just a freak being a quality relief ace his whole career. He is by far the top relief pitcher in history. Dennis...
Hank Greenberg is a player who was great player but might be a lot better if his career could be run again. He lost more time to WWII than any player I know of. He went into the service during...
Until I wrote this article, I was surprised Dahlen wasn’t a hall of famer. He is the kind of player who fits the bill great on defense at a key position and solid on offense. However, looking at his...