Is that exciting news or what? Baseball is back! Pitchers and catchers report to spring training camps in Florida and Arizona starting today. And although the Colorado Rockies are predicted to finish last and lose 100 games this coming season, both the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox are predicted to finish first in their divisions by USA Today. How wonderful is that? Although I have to wonder when baseball writers began smoking crack. It's the only explanation. In any case, in honor of the start of spring training, I am featuring a photograph that I took of the Comiskey Park scoreboard back in 1980, with one of my sport's heros - Bill Veeck - photoshoped in. Veeck owned the minor league Milwaukee Brewers, the Cleveland Indians, and the Chicago White Sox (twice). Veeck believed baseball should be fun, and for that was never forgiven by the other team owners. In 1980, when he wanted to sell the team to Edward Debartolo, so that he could continue to run the Chicago White Sox, the owners voted against the sale, I guess on the grounds that Debartolo was Italian, and Veeck had to leave baseball forever. A sad day.
Great post, and anxiously waiting to the spring training to get start, will definitely pass on the information to others as well who have interest in baseball and want to learn more.
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ReplyDeletevery interesting post..and good step of spring training..more share like these post thank you
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