It’s the bottom of the ninth for Base Paths, time to yield this Monday space to lesser games for which they can not even afford a round ball. Replaying the season’s biggest events: POWER DOWN – The Niagara Power decides “nine is enough” and, feeling not in control of its situation, leaves Sal Maglie Stadium to the dust of destiny, a dark stain on Niagara Falls’ … [Read more...] about Base Paths looks in the rear view mirror
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Base Paths and Masters Field
Courtesy of the Niagara Gazette Dear Mainland Fans – Fifty years of history lines our gridiron here today. Players, cheerleaders, coaches, anyone who’s ever had anything to do with Grand Island High School football will assemble, as many as they can, to say hail and farewell to Masters Field. For fifty years Viking athletes (no problem with THAT nickname) have left their … [Read more...] about Base Paths and Masters Field
Bat, Ball and Bible
Whatever your plans for Sunday, stop in the name of the law. Unless it involves churchly endeavors, your agenda may well have been prohibited about 100 years ago. And especially if it involved baseball. In the whimsically titled “Bat, Ball & Bible,” Cortland State Prof. Charles DeMotte seriously chronicles the quest to keep the national pastime on a six-day schedule … [Read more...] about Bat, Ball and Bible
Book review: The Diamond Deception
The Diamond Deception By Mike Gallagher 326 Pages, AuthorHouse Grade: C By DOUG SMITH pollyndoug@hotmail.com Baseball has a whole new drug problem in rookie novelist Mike Gallagher’s “Diamond Deception.” It appears as if a couple of unscrupulous club owners (is that redundant?) employ their deviously-acquired Arizona Sidewinders (one of several nifty turns of … [Read more...] about Book review: The Diamond Deception