In 2007 baseball revenues were over six billion dollars. The commissioner made over 14 million dollars. The average player made 3.1 million dollars. Average, that means some were higher and some were lower. If you do the math, about half the players made lower, most of them around the minimum of 400,000 dollars. Stars on average make at least 5 million a year. Superstars make well over ten million dollars a year. As you can see baseball is flush with cash. But not everybody.
Baseball is not like the NBA, where …

If you have been watching the news or reading the paper at all of late, then you know about the Mitchell Report. It reveals, to some degree, the use of performance enhancing drugs by professional baseball players and includes several big name players who allegedly used them. One of those names is Andy Pettitte, a member of the New York Yankees and one of my favorite players.
I was surprised, as many people were, that his name was included in the report. Andy is one of those rare figures who …

I am astounded. I really am.
Alex Rodriguez, the greatest player in the sport of baseball, opted out of a guaranteed 72 million dollars, and almost certainly another 200 million dollars, choosing to leave the most storied franchise in sports: The New York Yankees. That’s amazing. He is an amazing player who made his mark the Seattle Mariners, left for Texas and the largest contract ever signed in sports, and got traded to New York to win championships. That never happened, but the chance presented itself every October. I thought he …

I have always considered myself something of a hunter.
When I think of hunters, the beginning of the movie Last of the Mohicans comes to mind. Three men running headlong through the woods, their hair streaming out behind them, trusty muskets in their hands. They run and run, quick and silent as whispers. Then suddenly, they stop. One raises his musket, fires a single shot with a puff of smoke. Flash to a large deer tumbling to the ground. The men come and stand over the deer and thank its spirit …

If you are a fan of baseball, you have seen the sad decline of the New York Yankees this year.
If you know nothing about baseball, then know this: the Yankees are one of the most stories franchises in all of sports, they have won twenty-six championships, and every year they are built to win another.
This year was no exception. The Yankees looked good on paper. They had great hitters. They had good starting pitching. They had a revamped bullpen that looked like it would be one of the best …

I am a collector of things. It doesn’t really matter what it is as long as there a “number” of them to collect.
When I was real young I used to go around the house “bumping” into dressers, desks, and chairs to see what things would fall off. Most of the time pennies, paper clips, and buttons fell, but occasionally it was a piece of candy or a bobby pin. Once it was a pen knife. At six years old, it was exciting to “find” these things, although my only …

You can’t catch anything unless you get your line in the water. In life, you will accomplish nothing, unless you get out there and try to do something. Yes, you may come home from a long day of fishing with nothing to show, but on other days your pail will be full and your smile will be wide.
Fish often hide in unexpected places. I often catch the biggest fish in the shade of a submerged log, or at the mouth of an underground outlet that I can’t see. A helping …