Names Around Baseball
The Royals installed a single red seat among the blue seats at Kauffman Stadium
in honor of late Negro Leagues player and coach BUCK O’NEIL. ESPN’s Joe
Morgan reported a committee will choose a new person to sit in the seat each game
by asking fans “to send in names of the people who have special accomplishments
and who embody the spirit of Buck O’Neil.” O’Neil’s brother, WARREN, occupied
the seat during the Royals’ opener yesterday against the Red Sox (ESPN, 4/2).
FLOOD INSURANCE: In a profile of late MLBer CURT FLOOD, whose legal
challenge to MLB was the precursor to free agency, USA TODAY’s Sandy Grady writes
he “began the revolution that gave 2007’s ballyard tycoons freedom and wealth.”
While Flood, represented by MLBAM Exec Dir MARVIN MILLER, lost a Supreme
Court judgment 5-3 in his fight for free agency, he “blew a hole in the wall through
which veterans ANDY MESSERSMITH, DAVE MCNALLY and CATFISH HUNTER
later marched” (USA TODAY, 4/3).
SOX: Red Sox P CURT SCHILLING was the featured guest on FSN’s “CMI:
The Chris Myers Interview,” where he wore a T-shirt and hat for his 38studios.com
game company. Schilling, on writing his own blog: “I didn’t really become aware
of the sub-culture that blogs are until the last 6-8 months when I opened 38studios.
Some of the employees at the company have blogs in the industry, and I started
to look at them a little bit and I just thought, ‘Why not?’ After wearing the
labels I’ve worn for 15 or 20 years –- some right, some wrong -– being able to
eliminate the middleman in a lot of cases is not a bad thing” (FSN, 4/1)....Charity
Wines and Charity Hop have teamed with Schilling, Red Sox LF MANNY RAMIREZ
and P TIM WAKEFIELD on a line of wines called Schilling Schardonnay, Manny
Being Merlot and CaberKnuckle. Each player’s charity will receive $1.25 per bottle
sold at New England-area outlets and Fenway Park (Charity Wines).
|
