Courtesy of the Niagara Gazette By Doug Smith From computers to cars, new kids on the block are always way ahead of Base Paths, so he was only dismayed, not surprised, to read in one of Tonawanda News Sports Editor Matt Parrino’s first columns that baseball is dead Still, how could he have missed that? Okay, it did take an out-of-town comic-strip author to tell him … [Read more...] about Base Paths confirms baseball still has a pulse
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Base Paths sounds off on Utica
Courtesy of the Niagara Gazette By Doug Smith It’s gotta’ be better in the New York Collegiate Baseball League’s West than East, where one of the leading teams left the league with four games to play. Minor- and collegiate-league baseball is always subject to the vagaries of attendance and enthusiasm. The minor-league encyclopedia is littered with notations “Hornell … [Read more...] about Base Paths sounds off on Utica
Circus music, Rice Krispies and Base Paths
Courtesy of the Niagara Gazette By Doug Smith NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. -- With a break in the Power schedule, Base Paths wandered into Coca-Cola Field for a Bison game last Tuesday. He’d been so long away that he felt he oughta’ wear a name tag. Duties with and about the Power have him all but keeping a cot in the pressbox at Sal Maglie Stadium. Well the Herd and the Toledo … [Read more...] about Circus music, Rice Krispies and Base Paths
Calico Joe, USPS stamps and Base Paths
Courtesy of the Niagara Gazette By Doug Smith To baseball insiders, “this team looks good on paper” is no compliment. But this week the sport itself looks good on paper, and it is. Four magnificent baseball portraits – Joe DiMaggio, Larry Doby, Willie Stargell and Ted Williams – hit post offices this weekend. And John Grisham’s lovely baseball novel “Calico Joe” … [Read more...] about Calico Joe, USPS stamps and Base Paths
Astronomers set their sights on stars in Niagara Falls
Courtesy of the Niagara Gazette By Doug Smith NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. -- For the next three days, you don’t have to look up to see stars, just look around, with the Class AAA and New York State Collegiate League’s finest vying for attention and TV viewers Wednesday night. On the surface, it seems almost foolhardy that Niagara Power President Cal Kern lobbied for the NYCBL … [Read more...] about Astronomers set their sights on stars in Niagara Falls