This isn’t your ordinary All-Decade Team of the 1980s. That’s too easy. In this 10-year span, we needed eight position players, a starting pitcher, and a closer. Instead of judging players by their body of work during the decade, we chose individual seasons and we could only have one representative per baseball season during this decade, as every year […]
October’s Single Season Best is Hershiser, not Bumgarner
Madison Bumgarner is a good pitcher who has just completed one of the all-time great post-season pitching performances in the history of baseball. The ace of the San Francisco Giants staff threw over 52-innings while going 4-1 with a microscopic 1.03 ERA this past October. He upped his game even more in the World Series by […]
World Series Poem
These Royals Have Similarities to 1987 Minnesota Twins
Shields Failing Big Game Tests
When the Kansas City Royals traded for “Big Game” James Shields from the Tampa Bay Rays, they acquired an ace who ate a lot of innings and provided much needed stability for their starting rotation. His presence on their staff was just what the doctor ordered. However, when you get to the post-season, this is […]
Kansas City Royals Epic Post-Season Continues
The Kansas City Royals are storming into the World Series on one of the best and most exciting rolls I have ever seen. The Wild Card game against the Oakland Athletics pretty much tells all of us what we need to know about these Royals. As you know, they were trailing 7-3 going into the bottom of […]
Farewell to Jeter
Derek Jeter officially retired just over two weeks ago but his reign in the Bronx has been over for exactly two years as, on October 13, 2012, he broke his ankle in game one of the American League Division Series versus the Detroit Tigers. Although Jeter did not retire until recently, that day marked the […]
Mike Trout Gives Today’s Players a Good Name
There have been far too many negative stories recently concerning professional athletes. Whether you are talking about the now infamous Ray Rice video or Minnesota Vikings superstar running back Adrian Peterson, the headlines have not been fun to monitor if you are looking for stories focused on what is good in the world. I don’t […]
Welcome to the New BobsBaseballTours.com
Welcome to our new site and this new feature – the blog. We will be regularly updating trip information and letting people know how many spots are available per trip on this blog. We will also be writing periodical baseball related articles such as the one above featuring Mike Trout of the Los Angeles Angels. […]