Another baseball season has begun and it didn’t take long for Major League Baseball’s outrageous blackout policy to affect thousands of fans here in Hawaii.   The problem is that...

Think that sounds a little harsh? Well, I don’t think you will after you hear our story.   Basically, we have two gripes, both of which have to do with...

By that I don’t mean you have actually made their acquaintance. But that’s the thing about our favorite writers, isn’t it? We really do feel that we know them. And...

I spent the better part of this evening in Safeco Field, home of the Seattle Mariners. Tonight was the first of three games I’ll be attending between the Mariners and...

The latest issue of Sports Illustrated arrived yesterday and a number of pages were devoted to Candlestick Park.  The final sporting event was held there three days ago and they’re...

If you’ve lived in Hawaii for as long as I have – It’ll be fifty years in May – you’ve become used to being treated differently from folks living in...

Today was the final day of the 2010 baseball season and the San Francisco Giants, by defeating the San Diego Padres, became champions of their division. The Giants have thousands...

Those of us privileged to live in Hawaii seldom get any sympathy from mainland folks when we complain about the occasional downside. For instance, when a mail order company whacks...

The attempt to manufacture excitement is an unfortunate trend in major league baseball. In big league ballparks, monstrous electronic scoreboards suddenly light up and instruct fans to MAKE NOISE!!!!! as...

It was during a visit with my mother’s family in St. Louis, probably in 1948 or ‘49, that I saw a televised baseball game for the first time. My grandfather...