After seeing three games in Boston between the Red Sox and the Oakland A’s, I took Amtrak to Baltimore, where the Sox were to play a three-game series with the...

There will be some interruptions in these posts over the next few weeks because I’m leaving today on what has become my annual jaunt to Boston and a few evenings...

A lot of us are into the various awards programs run by the airlines. I’ve been in American’s Aadvantage program for years and we have used the miles earned for...

I watch most of the Boston Red Sox games on television via satellite and manage to see them play in person almost every year … an excellent excuse to work...

Once a year, I use some airline mileage and go back to Boston, where I settle into a little B&B on Bay State Road, an easy ten minute walk to...

One day after several million or so of us were punched in the gut by news of Harry Kalas‘ sudden death, we hear that another of the greats, Les Keiter,...

It’s an oddity, but what must surely be a disproportionate number of sports broadcasters got their start in Hawaii doing baseball play-by-play for the Triple-A Hawaii Islanders of the Pacific...

Apropos of a comment to the previous post, I came across this photo in today’s Boston Globe. Yes, I follow the Boston Red Sox, and I try to see them...

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...

After the last business session yesterday evening, I returned to my hotel room, snapped on the television set and went hunting for the Red Sox-Tampa Bay game which, I figured,...