For me, Baseball Reference is one of the top baseball resources I use for stats, rule verification, historical facts, and everything else in between the foul lines of a baseball field. I was thinking about all the “amazing” changes that professional baseball is working on to “improve” the game and one rule came to mind.…
Read more Baseball Re-Invented: Changing The Ground Rule Double to A Triple
Last night on the MLB Network, over the span of nearly 3 hours, I watched one of my favorite baseball movies, “The Natural.” Robert Redford plays Roy Hobbs, a once can’t miss prospect who runs into a heap of trouble, falls off the planet only to return in glorious fashion later on in his life…
Read more The Sports Cartoon – Where Every Picture And a Few Words Tell The Story
Chapter 1 One late summer afternoon, the Tortoise and the Hare were playing baseball against each other in the first game of a weekend tournament. The bleachers were filled with family and friends and the weather was perfect for baseball. The Hare was a standout 13 year old pitcher and overall All-Star caliber player for…
Read more A Rhode Island Baseball Experience Adaptation of Aesop’s “The Hare and the Tortoise”
Baseball Reference (www.baseball-reference.com) is an awesome website if you love baseball statistics. You can look up player profiles, teams of your childhood, games that go down in history, and every statistic imaginable. I took a closer look at this year’s World Series matchup between the Washington Nationals and the Houston Astros via Baseball Reference and…
Read more A Few Interesting Stats from the 2019 Baseball Fall Classic
A few years back, in Al Southwick’s office, on the second floor of the North Kingstown Town Hall, I sat and listened to an amazing baseball story. Coach Al was so instrumental in my baseball career as a coach and mentor and I always loved talking baseball with him as an adult. I mentioned to…
Read more The Five Factors That Will Help Determine Who Wins The 2019 World Series
The oddsmaker and sports have gone hand in hand for over a century. The odds for a prize fighter to retain his title against an up and coming, spirited nobody. The chance or percentage of chance for a major college basketball powerhouse to win the NCAA tournament. The statistical probability for a baseball team to…
In the first two games of 2017 Eastern Conference finals of the NBA, the Cleveland Cavaliers have completely dominated and downright humiliated the Boston Celtics. The Cavaliers took both games at the Boston Garden by 13 and 44 points, respectively, to take a commanding lead going back to Cleveland. To make matters seem even more…
Read more The Cleveland Cavaliers Have Put Themselves On The Doorstep of Boston Sports History
The Boston Celtics lost to the Cleveland Cavaliers this past week 114-91. LeBron James played 38 minutes and score 36 points, grabbed nearly 10 rebounds and had 6 assists. Another great performance by one of this generation’s most outstanding players. I didn’t attend that game, nor will I pay to go see another NBA game…
Read more When NBA Stars Decide to Rest, The Fans Lose Big Time
Here at the North Kingstown Blog, we hesitate to put our name on any product unless we truly stand behind it. We have interviewed hundreds of local and RI businesses who offer a wide range of products and services. From health and beauty products to fitness equipment to hair and makeup, The North Kingstown Blog…
Read more The North Kingstown Blog Endorses the Shark Rotator True Pet Vacuum
The challenge every biopic film has is mixing fact with Hollywood’s influence. A biopic film is based on actual events, recent or historical, which give depth to the story through interesting dialogue and sometimes sensationalism of these events. It is the filmmaker’s task to educate the audience, whether they were alive during the events or…
Read more Hidden Figures – A Must See Biopic on the American Dream