I thought now would be a good time to provide a little update on the Pickin’ Splinters Baseball Challenge, that little exercise in forecasting that many of us took part in back in April.
The Sporting News recently released a list of the 50 greatest coaches of all-time, as selected by a panel of Hall of Famers, championship coaches and other experts.
By now, it’s pretty much old news that the New York Times reports that David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez were on the list
On the day that I make my annual trek to Cooperstown for Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Weekend, I thought it would be interesting to share an experience from last summer when I visited a completely different museum celebrating the history of America’s pastime.
The county where I grew up in New York happens to be the birthplace of two of the 289 members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Despite the intense debate a few weeks ago in our discussion of the greatest shortstops of all-time, left field has to be considered the toughest position so far, in terms of narrowing the field down to a top four.
Moving to the outfield, in part 6 we’ll be discussing a position with quite the dichotomy of candidates.
Either the bench was worn out after a sometimes heated debate regarding the Mount Otsego shortstops, or third base was simply a no-brainer.
After a pretty spirited debate about the relative merits of the greatest shortstops of all-time, this week we move over to the position commonly referred to as the “hot corner”.
After a brief layoff, the Mount Otsego series returns with a discussion of one of the most important positions on the field, and one that should warrant a lot of passionate debate.