The Billings Free Press

Watching the playoffs has been entertaining. The Rangers look very strong in hitting and pitching and fielding. The Cardinals look fairly strong in the hitting department but who knows what will happen if they face some stiff pitching. Usually the good pitchers beat the good hitters. I don’t think a couple days rest are going [… Read More]

There are not many of these guys left. I mean those who were major league baseball players before December 7th, 1941; and then they became soldiers and sailors for the duration as I think they used to say in those days. For Feller that was four full seasons. According to Wikipedia, Bob Feller volunteered for the [… Read More]

I was poking around on a website called Creative Minority Report. Check it out. Baseball is an interesting sport and different from the others. Here is another story about this rare phenomenon. It reminds me of a time a few years ago when I was wandering around the NFL Hall of Fame and Museum in [… Read More]

I am assuming that most normal people, if they are not doing open heart surgery or something similar, are watching the baseball playoff games prior to the World Series. Is the quality of the umpiring unusually bad or what? I watch a fair number of regular season games at all levels and have not seen [… Read More]

Like watching the tearfilled ending of Puccini’s masterpiece, Madame Butterfly, you keep hoping that the Billings Mustangs will do something different and maybe the ending will be different, but you know in your heart, at least for the summer of 2009, that is not how life works out. The Mustangs lost 3-0 to the Helena [… Read More]

This is the scoreboard just after 18 year old Daniel Corcino induced the 8th batter in the 9th inning to line out hard to the first baseman Nurre for the final out. The other youngster from the Caribbean was 16 year old Yorman  Rodriguez, the under age beer batter for the game. I wonder, do [… Read More]

The usual number of foul balls into the stands and into the streets surrounding apparently did not result in any recorded injuries, but a foul ball off the catcher’s glove into the side of the home plate umpire’s head resulted in him having to leave the game. The other guy called a great one-umpire game [… Read More]

As you can see it only takes 4 guys to water the infield at the AAA level, whereas I think it takes about 12 to do it for a major league team at least in spring training. The title: Those are the names I came up with in 3 seconds of not-very-serious thinking about what [… Read More]

Billings’ high school age baseball teams, all six of them, together with five other teams mostly from this area will play 7 inning games on Memorial Day Weekend, starting at 11am, at Dehler Park on 27th and Pirtz Field behind Rimrock Mall. There will be almost continuous baseball ’til sometime late in the evening Saturday [… Read More]

While waiting for Dehler Park to get warmed up with baseball on tap everyday we thought we had better check up on some of our grandchildren. Enroute to Ashland OR we stopped to visit them in Issaquah WA and went to a game in Tacoma on Sunday afternoon. Cheney Stadium is 50 years old and [… Read More]