“We are all angels with only one wing, only when we come together can we fly.” Luciano de Crescenzo The first twenty years of the new century has been marked by player performance scandals, high tech cheating, and a pandemic that introduced the term “crowdless games”. But the most important development effecting the game since […]
Is Venezuela A Modern Day Mudville?
Baseball has long captured the attention and imagination of word professionals and none more than Ernest Lawrence Thayer, whom in 1888 wrote his immortal poem Casey at the Bat. The poem captures so much of baseball’s appeal by creating the drama of desperation’s hope and the pitch by pitch involvement of the crowd. And of […]
As the Baseball World Turns…For the Better
On August 3rd, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced the addition of baseball to the Olympic Games to be held in Tokyo, Japan in 2020. The impact for baseball is tremendous as global efforts to grow the game will find government assistance and cooperation in areas currently neglected.