Sports columnist Glenn Dickey joins me on Right Off The Bat, live before game four of the series between the Mariners and the A’s. Glenn has a bead on the pennant races and isn’t shy about sharing his thoughts with the fans. Don’t miss this show airing at 11:20 AM Pacific right here on LOTGP.com, the A’s web site, and 610 AM KFRC, in Northern California. [Read more →]

For the first time in 40 years the San Francisco Giants play at Yankee Stadium, New York.

Here’s why this series is special. [Read more →]

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Billy Beane Brian McRae Dave Campbell Jim Palmer Mike Quade Pam Pitts Paul White Rene Lachemann Ron Fairly

Jim Palmer

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No one in baseball journalism has a better handle on the National Pastime than Paul White, editor of USA Today’s Baseball Weekly. Paul White will discuss his views on the pennant races and more Wednesday at 2:50 PM Pacific on Right Off The Bat, heard right here on LOTGP.com, The A’s web site, or 610 KFRC AM in Northern California. [Read more →]

Memorial Day has a special significance to the baseball season. It’s the first big holiday weekend. The weather back East is getting warmer, the pennant races are starting to take shape, and the baseball is getting more consistent.

America used to celebrate the holiday with doubleheaders throughout the majors.

Now, teams travel on Monday and aren’t even scheduled to play. Doubleheaders are a thing of the past.

Let’s check some baseball history for a little perspective on Memorial Day and the excitement it used to provide to the baseball fan.

Forty years ago today, the races were heating up.

Memorial Day in 1962 saw the return of the Dodgers to New York to face the expansion Mets for the first time since “The Bums” abandoned Brooklyn for the West Coast in 1958.

Over 55,000 fans saw the Dodgers sweep the Mets that day, despite the Mets pulling off a triple play in the second game.

Can you really tell anything about the eventual outcome of the pennant chase on May 30th (the day Memorial Day was traditionally observed before the creation of the three day weekend)?

Let’s look at the American League standings after the 1962 Memorial Day twin bills and see what happened during the games on May, 30th, 1962.

It’s interesting. [Read more →]

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• Al Hrabosky
  
• Art Spander
  
• Mark Grace
  
• Mark Mulder
  
• Ray Fosse
  
• Vida Blue
  
• and lots more!
  

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“Wow! ohh? My God?” Those were the phrases that came to my mind when I first saw a young 6’3 latin hitter for the Oakland Athletics step into the batting cage in 1985.

After seeing his first career homer traveling 450 feet halfway up the bleachers in centerfield off Texas starter Jeff Russell, I knew a star was born.

Let me tell you more about Jose.
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With the retirement of Jose Canseco Monday, the debate will now begin as to whether or not the original Bash Brother belongs in the Hall of Fame.

Having a nickname, that is linked to Mark McGwire, is a good start for Jose.

Is he a Hall of Famer? [Read more →]

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newly added taped interviews. [Read more →]

BY ALAN GOLDFARB

IN DEFENSE OF BASEBALL

As a kid growing up in New York in the ’50s, baseball was our game. Why wouldn’t it be? We were a three-team town then. We had the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants in the National League, and the Yankees in the American. We had Duke, the Mick, and Willie. We had Jackie. We had Eoisk, the Scoonge, Campy, the Lip, Yogi, the Barber, and Moose. [Read more →]