Blog Summaries

  • Flashback Friday: Remembering Tinker Field Five Years After the Grandstands were Felled by Progress

    Editor’s Note: Today we travel back in time five years to May 6, 2015 when the grandstands and support buildings at Tinker Field in Orlando, FL were transformed into a Ballpark graveyard. After receiving a one year stay of execution, the appeals process for a historic ballpark in Orlando, FL. ran out last week and…

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  • COVID-19 puts the Sports World in an Extended Timeout

    Thanks to the arrival of the COVID-19 virus, for many people right now it feels like up is down, and down is up. The virus has also introduced new terms like, social distancing and contact tracing into our vocabularies. As part of its destructive path into everyday life COVID-19 has caused the world of sports…

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  • Looking Back at the First Baseball Game Played in an Empty Ballpark

    Editor’s Note: As the world of sports continues an extended timeout due to the COVID-19 virus, we look back on a column from April 29, 2015 which captures what the future of sport may look like for the foreseeable future as Major League Baseball and other sports look at ways to “Play Ball” without fans.…

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  • Spies Like us? MLB Investigation Unearths Vast Cheating “Can”spiracy

    In the 1964 movie Goldfinger, James Bond, played by Sean Connery, finds himself in the cross-hairs of a rather delicate situation after he has been strapped to a table with a laser pointed at him. It is while he is in this predicament that Mr. Bond, James Bond utters the famous line, “Do you expect…

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