‘Wait Till Next Year’ for Gil Hodges’ Hall of Fame Vote

November 11, 2020

The great Gil Hodges will once again be up for Baseball Hall of Fame induction next fall.

Sad Day in Brooklyn Lives On for Dodgers Faithful

September 23, 2020

Sept. 24 marks the date of the final baseball game ever played at Ebbets Field.

Diocesan Priests Remember ‘The Franchise’ Tom Seaver

September 16, 2020

The diocesan faithful remembers the great Tom Seaver, who died on Aug. 31.

MLB’s First Woman Coach a ‘Go-Getter’ at Jesuit University

July 27, 2020

Another barrier in the sports world was broken July 20 when Alyssa Nakken coached first base in the late innings of an exhibition game between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics, thus becoming the first woman to appear in uniform on the field during a major league baseball game. The Giants won the game, 6-2.

Analysis: For Baseball’s Opening Day, a Vatican Fantasy Draft

July 22, 2020

Tomorrow is Opening Day of the COVID-shortened Major League Baseball season, and, like all red-blooded Americans, that has me thinking about fantasy drafts. If you’ve never played before, the idea is simple: You and a bunch of other people draft players to form a team, then track their statistical performance throughout the season. Whichever team has the best stats, wins.

Priest’s Love of Math, Baseball Helps Him Develop New Stat Measures

July 20, 2020

Prior to the July 17 execution of Dustin Honken, a 52-year-old man from Iowa, Catholic leaders, including the bishops of Iowa, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, and the Benedictine priest who had been Honken’s spiritual adviser for 10 years, pleaded for a lesser sentence or at least a delay.