MLB Lowell Palmer

MLB: What’s Happened to Sports Journalism in San Diego?

Former MLB San Diego Padres’ pitcher Lowell Palmer, 71, has filed for bankruptcy on two occasions.…

Continue Reading
MLB Dave Hilton

MLB: Dave Hilton is another casualty due to vesting requirement changes

Unless you’ve been holed up in a cave somewhere, you know that former MLB Houston Astros…

Continue Reading
Maddon's

The best man at Joe Maddon’s wedding is among the those not receiving an MLB pension

Joe Maddon deserves all the recognition and praise he gets, says Jimmy Driscoll, who served as Maddon’s best man,…

Continue Reading
Sean Doolittle

Sean Doolittle is MLB’s Wizard of Oz

Washington Nationals closer Sean Doolittle was recently voted the “Good Guy Award” by the local media…

Continue Reading
Bernie Smith by Doug Gladstone

Bernie Smith of Lutcher still without MLB pension

Former Milwaukee Brewer Bernie Smith of Lutcher, who played for the Brewers in 1970 and 1971,…

Continue Reading
Women and children first Linda Koch

Women and Children First? Pleeze, Don’t Make Tony Clark Laugh

Women and Children First? September 14 is the one-year anniversary of Linda Kidd Koch’s death. She has…

Continue Reading

MLB Taking Advantage of Former Players Like Aurora’s Gary Neibauer

MLB Taking Advantage: In the final episode of M*A*S*H, the pompous doctor portrayed by the late David…

Continue Reading

Black ballplayers hit with bad retirement pitch

Black ballplayers hit with bad retirement pitch Eighty-two-year-old Don Dillard, of Greenwood, never made more than…

Continue Reading

Sports journalists still won’t take MLB and the MLBPA to task

The late Pulitzer Prize winner Jim Murray was arguably the finest sports journalist Los Angeles ever…

Continue Reading

Mr. Rogers Neighborhood

Like a lot of movie fans, I’m very excited about the forthcoming Mister Rogers biopic, It’s a…

Continue Reading