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
Rocket Man
When the Bisons flew the coop
By Rocket Man On closing night at Coca Cola Field, some Bison loyalists must have felt like witnesses to a wedding in which a victim married her kidnapper. In between the mascot race and the bus-token toss, Buffalo and Blue Jay suits signed an agreement maintaining the Herd’s role as prisoner of Toronto through 2016. About 300 feet back stood three guys who were elsewhere … [Read more...] about When the Bisons flew the coop
The Other Powerball
Courtesy of the Niagara Gazette In Niagara Falls, not everybody equates Powerball with instant riches. The relatively new kid on the baseball block, the Niagara Power, is edging toward the jackpot itself. In for its seventh year, second to only one other Cataract inter-city ballclub, the team has lit up the New York Collegiate Baseball League with a 10-run inning and a … [Read more...] about The Other Powerball