Red Sox fans... can you IMAGINE if this guy bought our team?

He wanted to!Frank McCourt is a Boston guy and he wanted to buy the Sox from the John Harrington and the Yawkey family.Instead John Henry and company took over in 2002 and won two more World Series titles in the first 7 years of his ownership than the Yawkeys did in nearly 70 years.Meanwhile McCourt took over the Dodgers... and now they need to be taken over by baseball. Not loaned money like the

Be my (Ellis) Valentine

On this Valentine's Day, let's honor a REAL Valentine... namely former Expos star outfielder Ellis Valentine.The star out of Crenshaw High School in Los Angeles, he went to Montreal to form a remarkably talented outfield with Warren Cromartie and future Hall of Famer Andre Dawson. Valentine became an All Star with 20 home run power, double digit stolen bases and a rifle for an arm that helped him

Sully Baseball Honors... The 1978 Tony Perez Topps Card

Doesn't Tony look a little ticked off here? Maybe a little unhappy with his situation?He's not playing, has an expression of indifference and annoyance intertwined.Maybe that was apt. This picture was taken during the 1977 season.The year before he was clinching his second straight World Series title with the Big Red Machine. Sure his stats dipped a little bit in 1976, but they won the World

The Montreal Rays or the Montreal A's? Why not?

In my last piece for The Hardball Times, I wrote about how Tampa Bay used to be an ideal spot for THREATENING to move your team. There was a baseball stadium just sitting there and the good folks of Minnesota, Texas, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco all built new ball parks to keep their teams from the Sun Coast.Now that the Rays are playing in Tampa Bay, they can't wait to get out of the very

THE RANGERS DID IT! Mariners and Nationals... you are on the clock

The Texas Rangers are going to the World Series.Those words look strange being typed out.I honestly thought they would never make it in their history. But here they are.And I am thinking about Washington for several reasons.The Rangers WERE the second version of the Washington Senators before they moved to Arlington.The team currently in Washington, the Nationals, are one of only two franchises

Cliff Lee's Trade is the Sequel to the Mark Langston trade

The Mariners went into the season with some optimism and some solid talent... but a slow start took them out of the race early and not even the presence of Ken Griffey Jr. could turn things around.So Seattle took their left handed ace who was in his walk year and traded him off. It seemed like New York, looking for another October run, was the likely landing spot, but instead sent him to a team