Tim Holland
I am a freelance sportswriter living in Maryland. History is my thing though I do follow the present as well. I like to write articles based on current events and find parallels to the past. I am the author of one sports book titled 'Sports Talk Radio is a Waste of Time (And so is this Book)' which is a common sense look at the world of sports told in my own story telling fashion. It can be found on Amazon and downloaded to kindle. I also have a website called Sportscommonsense.com. I live 23 miles outside of Washington D.C. and am a National League man so the Nats are my team.
I know that the game and players of today are good, but don't want those of the past to be forgotten. Baseball history is rich with lore and I hope to bring some of this in my blogs.
On May 2, 1939 baseball history was made as New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig ended what is still the Iron man streak of major league baseball at 2,130 consecutive games. Though baseball fans and…Read More
The only opening day forfeit in major league baseball history occurred at New York’s Polo Grounds on April 11, 1907. The Giants were forced to forfeit to the Philadelphia Phillies because of fan unruliness.
The…Read More
Oriole Park at Camden Yards opened on April 6, 1992, 20 years ago today. It marked the beginning of a throwback era of baseball stadiums and changed the way sports venues were built. Growing up in Maryland…Read More
On April 4, 1974 Henry ‘Hank’ Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit home run number 714 tying him for first place with Babe Ruth. The record that many fans believed unbreakable was now one swing away from…Read More
Opening Day of the major league baseball season used to be held in Washington D.C. not Japan and the first United States President to throw out the ceremonial first pitch was William Howard Taft on April…Read More
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Ohio in 1961 and ’62 is the only state to have two NCAA basketball championship game representatives…Read More
On December 10, 1981 the St. Louis Cardinals and San Diego Padres swapped disgruntled shortstops in Garry…Read More
What do Frank Robinson 1966, Reggie Jackson 1977 and Kirk Gibson 1988 have in common? All of these are…Read More
On February 8, 1927 Ty Cobb signed a contract for $85,000 to play for the Philadelphia Athletics proving…Read More
Boston and New York are linked again as Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek announced his retirement today…Read More
Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard returned to the field this week much as Bill White did for the club in 1967. What they have in common is that both were trying to make comebacks from torn…Read More
Hall of fame catcher Gary Carter passed away on Thursday at age 57. Forty years ago in 1972 the three sport star athlete at Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton, California was drafted in the third round…Read More
On February 16, 1962 the expansion Houston Colt 45’s took the field in Apache, Junction Arizona for their inaugural spring training. Baseball’s newest member of the National League played second-fiddle…Read More
2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the New York Mets and their first spring training held in 1962. It also marked the return of Charles Dillon ‘Casey’ Stengel as a major league manager after he was…Read More
Dodgertown is now the Vero Beach Sports Village. The former spring training home of the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers for 60 years (1948-2008) no longer houses the team. And memories of its opening seem…Read More
What are some famous firsts in black major league baseball history since Jackie Robinson broke the color line in 1947? In honor of Black History Month here is a look at some famous firsts accomplished…Read More
Pitchers and catchers will report to spring training soon. In 1971 the Kansas City Royals invited pitchers, catchers and anyone else to the Kansas City Royals Baseball Academy.
The academy was the brain…Read More
Talk of expanding the Major League Baseball Playoffs to 10 teams by adding a wild card team in the American and National Leagues takes us back to the first League Championship Series’ of 1969.
Before…Read More
So what did baseball fans have to talk about around the hot stove 50 years ago? Well the winter of 1961-62 probably had some very interesting conversations.
The first may have been whether New York Yankees…Read More
It did not take Reggie Jackson nearly as long to be signed as a free agent in 1976 as it is taking first baseman Prince Fielder in 2012. New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner signed Jackson to a five…Read More
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