It’s my birthday today, so we are skipping the blogging, and getting right to the good stuff.  Today’s Trivia contest is being sponsored by Fundex Games.   Fundex makes a lot of wonderful games, but they also feature a free jigsaw puzzle club, and a lot of MLB licensed products.  Today’s prize is very cool.  Its [...]

The Missouri legislature voted yesterday to rename a stretch of I-70 currently being called Mark McGwire Highway.  It had been given that moniker one year after McGwire broke the single season home run record, but a movement has been afoot to change the name for years and gained steam this spring when McGwire admitted that [...]

Mark McGwire’s younger brother has written a book about his own relationship with steroids as well as his part in introducing his famous brother to them.  Its basically a tell-all by a family member who has been disowned, and after reading this John Shea piece on Jay McGwire, I feel a little bit sickened.  I [...]

The St. Louis Post Dispatch’s Derick Goold and Chris Lee have created a fantastic slide show with audio from a day spent in California with Mark McGwire, Skip Schumaker and Brendan Ryan. You will hear McGwire share some of his approaches to teaching young hitters, and for those of you who don’t quite believe that [...]

Bill Von Sternberg writes this morning about something so simple you may think it silly, but it is a nice piece of Americana.  In Fargo, ND- You Betcha Land- Newman Outdoor Advertising has put up a couple of billboards honoring Fargo’s favorite son, and his home run record of 61 home runs in 1961.   Russ [...]