By Andrea Klee This time of year, right before spring training really gets underway, is full of optimism and predictions among baseball fans. Your shiny new team—packaged or cobbled together over the off-season—has yet to take the field together, and anything can happen between spring training and the World Series: 162 games need to be […]
If you’re 10 years old and live for little league, what’s better than getting to show off for your proud grandpa? Well, showing off for your great grandpa. And if you’re seven year-old Mitchell Edmond, and your great grandfather was the first African-American to play for the Cincinnati Reds, you’re going to have to steal […]
Okay, okay. I’m sure I’ve gushed about the Nats to the point of exhaustion, but I really do love baseball. And despite what others may say, I love the park, too! I particularly love spending my summers at a park where both my family and I can find some enjoyment: a jungle gym and lots […]
What you’ve heard is true. I’m in love with a loser. In the spring he comes along and promises me a season filled with food, drinks and fun, but by September our relationship has soured — I’m sad and frustrated, but still the supportive optimist. Yep, I’m one a few thousand Nats fans. I attended […]
Ice warnings and megastorms may be what is confronting us at the moment but baseball fans are already thinking of Spring. More than one of my Facebook friends noted today that pitchers and catchers report to spring training in two weeks. While I try I really don’t have it in me to care all that much about […]