Old-school news, just in time
by Kevin Burton I’ve always turned to Bonnie Raitt to raise the temperature in all things beep baseball. Boy do I ever need the help just now. I mentioned last month on Page 7 that some friends invited me to join the new USA Legends beepball team (“Let’s Hear It For Geezer Beepball,” …
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by Kevin Burton Game one of the sibling rivalry baseball series went to yours truly last week. It was the moves I didn’t make that saved me. Life is like that sometimes. I mentioned earlier on Page 7 that my brother Steve and I are playing a best-of-five baseball series using a …
by Kevin Burton Last Friday on Page 7 we had some fun with the National Beep Baseball Association’s code of conduct policy. I turned the clock back to a time even before my playing days and talked about brawls among Chicago teams. But the incidents weren’t limited to the Windy City. Former …
by Kevin Burton The beep baseball league wanted me to sign a code of conduct agreement in order to appear in the 2021 World Series. It’s one of many things that has changed since I retired as a player/manager five years ago. It makes me smile. Required is actually the word, …
by Kevin Burton Though I have no background in statistical analysis, I fancy myself a talent scout for the Cincinnati Reds. For you non baseball fans, that was a slap at the people who use analytics to determine a baseball player’s potential rather than say watching how well he plays. Anyway, I …
By Kevin Burton “How good are the Reds” was the question Sports illustrated famously asked on the cover of its 1976 World Series wrap-up edition. Two more questions: how vital was Tony Perez to that team and how misguided was the trade that sent him to Montreal? It’s Perez’s birthday today. He …
by Kevin Burton What some could see as just a game has enriched me as a person with low vision, in ways I could not have anticipated. The sport is called beep baseball. It has been played in the United States since the 1970s and is now played in Canada, Taiwan and the …
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By Kevin Burton In a recent post about attempting to move forward in a Covidized world, I mentioned a project (“The Covid Question Still Looms Over All,” March 24). I mentioned that some friends asked my wife and me to participate in a major collaborative effort, without giving details. As of Tuesday …
by Kevin Burton When I was nine, Al Michaels let me know that my Reds were going to the World Series. Instant friend for life! He left the Reds, but has called hundreds of big games since then, including the Miracle on Ice in 1980 and the Royals World Series win in 1985. …
by Kevin Burton I can’t believe it, the Reds will play in October! Thanks to the expanded virus-year format (eight teams from each league qualify), the Reds will be in the baseball playoffs for the first time since 2013. Tell me you saw this coming and I’ll tell you you’re lying. …
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