Happy New Year !

Not in Venezuela, where since

early December the Venezuelan

Winter League is “out of business”

because of the political chaos

in that country.

By Amaury Pi-González [Read more →]

Bruce Markusen is one of the leading historians of Oakland A’s baseball. His research has been very helpful over the years and he has updated his marvelous book about the A’s Dynasty in the early 70’s.

Click “Read More” to learn about the update and how to purchase the book.

Thanks, Bruce, for another fine work.

Marty Lurie [Read more →]

The U.S State Department

issued a travel advisory

suggesting Americans

avoid travel to Venezuela.

The Venezuelan Winter

Leagues stopped their games

because of the turmoil

in the country.

By Amaury Pi-González [Read more →]

So, we are days away from Christmas ’02

and the A’S and Giants Santa Claus are

working on some “gifts”for their

respective clubs. But the big question

is: Can a small budget give you a

World Series ?

By Amaury Pi-González [Read more →]

Money, money, money that is the word that drives 95% of the transactions the Athletics make. Billy Koch showed that he could lead a bull pen that won the AL West, his upside is tremendous, he had just scratched the surface of big time closing, but he is sent packing to the White Sox.

Why?

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ELDEN AUKER INTERVIEW

June 20, 2002

L: Tell me about the first night you got called into a game at Yankee Stadium, with Art Fletcher and Babe Ruth.

A: When I first came up with Detroit, it was my first trip to New York. Bucky Harris was our manager, and the first time I was ever in New York, and certainly to Yankee Stadium, and Bucky put me down in the bullpen. The third inning, we had a pitcher name of Carl Fisher, he got into trouble and got some men on base, and Bucky called me in to relieve. The first hitter up was Babe Ruth. I threw four pitches and struck him out. Of course, I have to preface it with the fact that I was an underhand pitcher, submariner, I threw directly underhand, which was unusual, but not for me. [Read more →]

Baseball fans never get a day off from following and speculating about their favorite teams.

The last two weeks have been something to watch. More is expected, but let’s see what has transpired so far.

The A’s continued their march towards creating a budget that will be one of the lowest in baseball when they dispatched Cory Lidle, one of their few marketable players, to Billy Beane’s best friend and adviser on life affairs, Toronto’s JP Riccardi, for a bucket of balls and two broken bats.

Talk about a one sided deal, this one makes the Ted Lilly deal look like one of the best of the century, any century.

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Talking about unpredictable stories !

The San Francisco Giants replaced

popular manager Dusty Baker with

(in my opinion) the man they needed

in “life-after-Dusty,” Felipe Alou.

Brian Sabean, again, worked his

magic as General Manager of the

San Francisco Giants.

By Amaury Pi-González [Read more →]

Miguel Tejada received

his greatest accomplishment

today, November 12,2002.

The American League

Most Valuable Player.

A most deserved MVP trophy

for the Dominican shorstop.

¡Felicidades Miguel!

By Amaury Pi-González [Read more →]

Although baseball is accredited
to have been invented by an
American, the one country that followed the United States in baseball and spread the game to the rest of Latin America
was Cuba.

Here is a brief history of Cuba, the largest
island of the Caribbean and the heritage
of baseball in that country.

By Amaury Pi-González [Read more →]