Bo Sox PowerWritten by Aron Wallad
Bo Sox PowerAs a Yankee fan for over 40 years I have seen many Yankee comebacks. 1978 was a great year. After being down 14 games Bronx Bombers stormed back to overtake Red Sox in one game playoff. Bucky Dent sure had his baseball fantasy. The 1958 Yanks. The team of Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra were down three games to one. They beat Milwaukee Braves to redeem themselves for previous year’s World Series loss. The Braves happened to be target for another Yankee comeback in 1996 when New Yorkers stormed back from a 2-0 ( both losses at Yankee Stadium) deficit in games to win four in a row. Other teams have turned series around after being down three games to one. The 1968 Tigers did it against St Louis Cardinals, in spite of Bob Gibson incredible performances. And 1968 Pirates overturned Orioles with “Their Family” of stars. I think Red Sox team of 2004 takes first prize. In all of sports including baseball, basketball and hockey there have been over 230 times since playoffs started where one team was ahead of other team three games to zero. Only twice has team that was on short end of three to nothing deficit come back and won four in a row. Both times it was in hockey.
| | I Could'a Been A ContendaWritten by Aron Wallad
I Could’a been a Contenda I am not going to say that I could have been a contender, but at one time in my life, as well as I am sure most men my age we thought we were destined for “Big Show”. I mean Baseball was our world. I remember all I ever wanted to do was get out of school and play. I would do anything I could to get my brothers to throw me a ball but when they were busy I would throw ball as high as I could running up street and pretending I was Willy Mays or Mickey Mantle. I would make up games and lineups for my All - Star teams and if I missed ball as it came back to earth, then that player would be a base runner. I used to throw ball at curb and bounce it off and try to field it. Again if I missed, batter would advance. These were my childhood games and they taught me basics of playing Baseball. There was never a time that I can remember when I didn’t have my Jim Davenport glove or Stan Musial one as I got older. I tried out for Little League and was put on a Farm team, in other words I wasn’t good enough for Coach. It didn’t matter because I still got to play. I was on Gallante Giants and since I hadn’t made grade as a third baseman, which was what I liked to play I tried out to be starting Pitcher. I was fast and I could throw that ball every which way but loose. I had a great wind-up and when I concentrated I could throw a curve ball or knuckleball dead center over plate. I remember catcher calling Coach over and telling him how good I was and that he should try me out as a pitcher. I was so excited. I just couldn’t wait. Sure, first thing Coach wanted to see was how I would do with a batter because until now all I had ever done was throw baseball into glove of a catcher with no batter.
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