baseball

There’s a photo of Joe Dimaggio on the wall in my office. It was taken sometime in 1969, nearly 20 years after he’d hung up the spikes. He’s 55 years old, salt overtaking pepper, the paunch of late middle age…

It’s been a major postseason for the Arkansas Razorbacks baseball as they announced on social media that second base player Robert Moore has received the Rawlings Gold Glove Award. Moore is the first player in the history of Arkansas Razorback…

A baseball diamond, according to Bill James, is a field of ignorance. What we know about the sport could maybe fill the infield, he says. The rest is an enigma.  This, coming from the originator of what we know as…

The Arkansas Razorbacks will take on North Carolina in game 1 of the Chapel Hill Super Regional on Saturday at 10 a.m. CST. The Hogs’ hard-fought series win in Stillwater, Okla., over the weekend qualified the Arkansas baseball team for…

“Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.” — Leo Durocher “More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.” — Thomas Boswell The paradox created by the two preceding quotes,…

On April 26 in North Little Rock, the Arkansas baseball team narrowly escaped embarrassment by eeking past a sub-.500 UCA squad, 2-1, in 10 innings in front of a sellout crowd of 10,333 people. The Razorbacks have now won 18…

The world’s third bronze statue of Babe Ruth will be dedicated on Ruth’s birthday next year, at the main entrance to Hot Springs’ Majestic Park baseball complex, where Ruth played in the early 20th Century. Majestic Park is a brand…

In late February, virtually everyone in Arkansas was hunkered down to avoid glazed roads and the bracing bite of winter. But for many, even the weeklong sleet and cold could not quell their spring fever. Justin Cole, vice president and…

Arguably the state’s most historic baseball site — many would contend there’s no debating it — will return to action this spring in Hot Springs as the revamped and renovated Majestic Park baseball complex. The five-field complex is set up…

There was so much to love about the 2021 Arkansas Razorback baseball team that it’s still hard to negatively obsess over the season’s finish. Kevin Kopps captivated everyone’s attention and admiration with a scintillating individual effort. That carried the Hogs…