This week has been a tough one for baseball lovers. The scandal over allegedly illegal scouting practices in the Dominican Republic widened. And there were new developments in the upcoming perjury trial against San Francisco Giants superstar Barry Bonds.

For those of you who owned an Amiga - or even a MS-DOS PC - Eddie Dombrower and Dan Daglow’s Earl Weaver Baseball was and is the best baseball game ever made. Even now, no baseball game matches its physics model and player AI. Yes, there were some obvious glitches, such as the pitcher attempting to field balls rather than cover first, but no other game mentally captured the realism of baseball. Its graphics are primitive now, but even playing I Got It Baseball ( igiBall ), which is Weaver

Here’s a quick and easy instruction video for how to make a balloon baseball hat. It would be fun to make for all the kids at a baseball party. There are several other videos at Monkey See that tell you how to make balloon animals and fun shapes . Your children will be amazed if you can make them a balloon monkey. Tags: balloon cap , balloon hat , how to make a balloon baseball hat , how to make a balloon hat , make a balloon animal , make a balloon hat Share This

Most of the annual previews are available as of this writing. I previously analyzed Beckett’s; here a more comprehensive look at the four I’ve purchased to date. Back in the day, the publisher printed only one cover. Now it’s easy to make one for every team or region. The examples here are for the New York area. They also cost about the same, so how do you pick? Depends on the kind of information your looking for. I’ve compared them on this Excel sheet , with a more narrative description here

The economy has fallen, baseball stars have fallen and the spirit of many Americans. Baseball and America more than ever needs a true hero to reemerge, a hero like Ken Griffey Jr.