I was that kid. I was the kid that jumped at the opportunity to not only see my favorite ballplayers, but to actually meet them as well. See, I came to age in the early 90’s, when being a young black kid meant having no shortage of stars that we could relate to. From Ken Griffey Jr. and Frank Thomas...

Earlier this year, Manny Ramirez signed with the EDA Rhinos of the Chinese Professional Baseball League. It’s been several years since Ramirez was a relevant name in baseball. After finally wearing out his welcome in Boston — and winning two World Series during that stint — Ramirez took over...

“The Sandlot” is one of the greatest baseball movies of all time, and if you don’t agree, you can just stop reading this right now. I’m not even joking. Go away. If you’ve never seen “The Sandlot,” first off, shame on you. Secondly, where the hell have you been the past 20 years? Third,...

In the spirit of crowning the king way too early (which Rev absolutely hates by the way), this is the first entry in a season-long series of me jumping to conclusions on purpose. However, it’s all in the sake of gauging the game for where it is at the moment, and what a first month of baseball it’s...

Usually when a baseball brawl breaks out, it’s the ultimate “you better get him” fight, where there’s a lot of jumping over shoulders, pointing and yelling. Very rarely is there an actual moment where something happens and you think, “Damn, it just got real.” The infamous Pedro Martinez-Don...

For most of Major League Baseball, the 2013 season got underway Monday. However, at the start of the MLB road, the story is just getting started, and it’s assured to be as wide open of a year as we’ve seen in a while … yet not in the ways you’d expect. As the resident TSFJ baseball...

We are on the verge of the breaking of the sports spring, because next Monday is Opening Day for Major League Baseball. While there’s no shortage of MLB season previews, predictions and prognosis’ (we’ll actually have our version of one here on Monday), it’s time to properly...

America has been passed up in its original game, again. In the span of two games, Team USA was bounced from the World Baseball Classic in a resounding but quiet manner. So for the third time in three tournaments, the Americans are sent home in a premature fashion, yet what happens behind it is the true...

My yard was everything to me growing up. It was my Madison Square Garden, where I dreamed of being “Like Mike” and on rare occasions nailed the game-winning bucket in games of two-on-two. My grandma would occasionally act as the human scoreboard, even counting down the waning seconds, never...

It’s no secret that America’s pastime has been far from just our own. Whether it’s the Japanese stepping up to win the first two (and potential third) World Baseball Classic tournaments, or if it is Mexico or the Netherlands stepping up to pull off surprising victories in the ultimate showdown...

Remember back in the day (in 2005), when Shawn Carter of Brooklyn, New York, said he was coming back to do one last album? To leave his everlasting mark on the game that he truly shaped in his own fashion like nobody else before, before he walked off into the sunset? This was the Black Album, and regardless...

The next three weeks of spring baseball will be different than it is in most years. Instead of the usual mixture of spring warm-up games scattered through Florida and Arizona, the World Baseball Classic takes the sport out of team allegiance and wraps some of the best players in the world in their flags...