Sports: Bo Sox Power

Bo Sox Power

Written by Aron Wallad

Bo Sox Power

As a Yankee fan for over 40 years I have seen many Yankee comebacks. 1978 was a great year. After being down 14 games repparttar Bronx Bombers stormed back to overtake repparttar 132963 Red Sox in repparttar 132964 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 repparttar 132965 Milwaukee Braves to redeem themselves for repparttar 132966 previous year’s World Series loss. The Braves happened to be repparttar 132967 target for another Yankee comeback in 1996 when repparttar 132968 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 repparttar 132969 series around after being down three games to one. The 1968 Tigers did it against repparttar 132970 St Louis Cardinals, in spite of Bob Gibson incredible performances. And repparttar 132971 1968 Pirates overturned repparttar 132972 Orioles with “Their Family” of stars.

I think repparttar 132973 Red Sox team of 2004 takes first prize. In all of sports including baseball, basketball and hockey there have been over 230 times since repparttar 132974 playoffs started where one team was ahead of repparttar 132975 other team three games to zero. Only twice has repparttar 132976 team that was on repparttar 132977 short end of repparttar 132978 three to nothing deficit come back and won four in a row. Both times it was in hockey.

I Could'a Been A Contenda

Written 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 repparttar “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 repparttar 132962 ball as high as I could running up repparttar 132963 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 repparttar 132964 ball as it came back to earth, then that player would be a base runner. I used to throw repparttar 132965 ball at repparttar 132966 curb and bounce it off and try to field it. Again if I missed, repparttar 132967 batter would advance. These were my childhood games and they taught me repparttar 132968 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 repparttar 132969 Little League and was put on a Farm team, in other words I wasn’t good enough for repparttar 132970 Coach. It didn’t matter because I still got to play. I was on repparttar 132971 Gallante Giants and since I hadn’t made repparttar 132972 grade as a third baseman, which was what I liked to play I tried out to be repparttar 132973 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 repparttar 132974 plate. I remember repparttar 132975 catcher calling repparttar 132976 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, repparttar 132977 first thing repparttar 132978 Coach wanted to see was how I would do with a batter because until now all I had ever done was throw repparttar 132979 baseball into repparttar 132980 glove of a catcher with no batter.

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