Born Feb. 26, 1887 in Elba – It wouldn’t be baseball season without paying homage to Nebraska’s greatest baseball player: Grover Cleveland Alexander.
Sure, you’ve never heard of him, and he may have pitched in the days before television when life moved slow enough to the point where people thought baseball games were actually exciting. However, [...]
Because of the curse of Coastal Geography and elitism, the NL Central division gets screwed. Instead of 5 teams fighting for the playoff spot, the powers that be thought it would be good to have 6 beat each other into submission. “Who cares?” they say, “After all, it’s only the Midwest.
We’ll show them, boys, we’ll [...]
The American sports fan likes the bad-ass, the guy who doesn’t take any shit, the guy who looks like he can – and wants to – kick your ass on and off the field. In baseball in the 1960s there was a man like that, the most feared man in the sport, and he got his pleasant demeanor growing up in Nebraska.
