Baseball Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/category/baseball Small-Batch Journalism & Comment Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:54:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.halphillips.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-BNyb0KwmkKGrHgoH-C8EjlLlhlGBJrZchZqHQ_35-32x32.jpg Baseball Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/category/baseball 32 32 World Series 1975 Revisited: Recapturing an All-time Classic, via iPhone https://www.halphillips.net/recapturing-the-75-world-series-via-iphone?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=recapturing-the-75-world-series-via-iphone https://www.halphillips.net/recapturing-the-75-world-series-via-iphone#respond Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:59:00 +0000 http://theaposition.com/halphillips/?p=1873 It’s often argued that the 1975 World Series — contested 50 years ago this month — ranks among the finest in baseball history. In terms of legendary personalities and the competitive iconography that framed them, Game 6 featured enough fairy-tale moments all on its own: a not-yet-befouled Pete Rose bellyflopping into third then popping up […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/recapturing-the-75-world-series-via-iphone/feed 0 It Was 20 Years Ago Today: Marking the Birth of Modern Red Sox Fandom https://www.halphillips.net/it-was-20-years-ago-today-marking-the-birth-of-modern-red-sox-fandom?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=it-was-20-years-ago-today-marking-the-birth-of-modern-red-sox-fandom https://www.halphillips.net/it-was-20-years-ago-today-marking-the-birth-of-modern-red-sox-fandom#comments Sat, 07 Oct 2023 14:11:29 +0000 https://www.halphillips.net/?p=5270 AUBURN, Maine (Oct. 6, 2023) — The Red Sox, for whatever cosmic reasons, have proved remarkably championship-prolific at the beginning of centuries. By 1918 they had claimed more World Series titles (5) than any team in Major League Baseball. That they wouldn’t win another until 2004 has been, erm, well documented. But listen: They had […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/it-was-20-years-ago-today-marking-the-birth-of-modern-red-sox-fandom/feed 1 Count Me Out of Any and All Baseball Hall of Fame Melodrama https://www.halphillips.net/count-me-out-of-any-and-all-hall-of-fame-melodrama?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=count-me-out-of-any-and-all-hall-of-fame-melodrama https://www.halphillips.net/count-me-out-of-any-and-all-hall-of-fame-melodrama#respond Thu, 11 Feb 2021 20:13:26 +0000 https://www.halphillips.net/?p=4471 In my dotage, I find myself at the heart of Major League Baseball’s core demographic. After all, I still watch playoff and World Series games in their entirety — not later, online, via some highlights package. I get choked up when Henry Aaron and other icons from my youth pass from the scene. I even […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/count-me-out-of-any-and-all-hall-of-fame-melodrama/feed 0 Clayton Kershaw’s more Clemens than Koufax https://www.halphillips.net/clayton-kershaws-more-clemens-than-koufax?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=clayton-kershaws-more-clemens-than-koufax https://www.halphillips.net/clayton-kershaws-more-clemens-than-koufax#comments Mon, 21 Oct 2019 16:07:14 +0000 https://www.halphillips.net/?p=3769 STOW, Vt. (Oct. 21, 2019) — So, sports are cruel, whether the participants are professionalized adults or mere school children. But sports are real, which is what makes them so damned compelling — in a way that lays bare the mockery of a sham that “reality” TV truly is. The latest case in point: Clayton […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/clayton-kershaws-more-clemens-than-koufax/feed 2 How Gene Michael and the Post-Miracle Mets Built a Red Sox Fan https://www.halphillips.net/gene-michael-post-miracle-mets-built-red-sox-fan?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gene-michael-post-miracle-mets-built-red-sox-fan https://www.halphillips.net/gene-michael-post-miracle-mets-built-red-sox-fan#respond Mon, 11 Sep 2017 14:18:53 +0000 http://www.halphillips.net/?p=2947 I’ve got work to do, but here I am getting misty writing about Gene Michael — a New York Yankee no less! But his passing last week jolted me back to a time when my baseball allegiances were new and muddled thanks to the insistent, dulcet tones of  Lindsay Nelson, Ralph Kiner and Bob Murphy. I […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/gene-michael-post-miracle-mets-built-red-sox-fan/feed 0 Flashback: Removing the Splinter from Our Collective Subconcious https://www.halphillips.net/flashback-removing-splinter?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=flashback-removing-splinter https://www.halphillips.net/flashback-removing-splinter#respond Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:40:29 +0000 http://www.halphillips.net/?p=2934 This August 2002 essay appeared in the Portland Press-Herald, to which I contributed op-ed columns from 2000-2003. It should have made me famous: The next season, my theory having been realized, Boston took the Yankees to 7 games before falling in the 2003 American League Championship Series; in 2004, the Sox came back from a […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/flashback-removing-splinter/feed 0 Three Rules to Promote Baseballing Alacrity https://www.halphillips.net/three-rules-to-promote-baseballing-alacrity?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=three-rules-to-promote-baseballing-alacrity https://www.halphillips.net/three-rules-to-promote-baseballing-alacrity#respond Wed, 19 Aug 2015 13:10:28 +0000 http://theaposition.com/halphillips/?p=1926 See here three simple rules for the betterment of baseball and the country whose pastime it remains, to the extent that anyone can sit through an entire 9-inning game these days without the aid of a DVR. First, give the ball to the pitcher and oblige the batter to be ready when the ball is […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/three-rules-to-promote-baseballing-alacrity/feed 0 The Long Game: Sox Even Series with Cardinals https://www.halphillips.net/the-long-game-sox-even-series-with-cardinals?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-long-game-sox-even-series-with-cardinals https://www.halphillips.net/the-long-game-sox-even-series-with-cardinals#respond Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:43:49 +0000 http://theaposition.com/halphillips/?p=1748 I’m not young, but in the long arc of Red Sox fandom, some would argue I’m too young to have bona fide demons. My family moved to New England in 1972, in time to endure three-plus decades of an 86-year World Series drought. I recall first-hand Luis Aparicio’s stumble around third base, Jim Rice’s broken […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/the-long-game-sox-even-series-with-cardinals/feed 0 Add Béisbol to Casa de Campo’s Rich Sporting Life https://www.halphillips.net/add-beisbol-to-casa-de-campos-rich-sporting-life?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=add-beisbol-to-casa-de-campos-rich-sporting-life https://www.halphillips.net/add-beisbol-to-casa-de-campos-rich-sporting-life#respond Fri, 11 Jan 2013 04:01:30 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=1623 Casa de Campo bills itself as enabler of The Sporting Life, and they deliver on that claim in myriad ways: golf, of course, but shooting, polo, tennis, yachting and several more I’m sure I’m missing. But there is baseball, too, and tonight we got a thoroughly entertaining taste. La Romana, the city of 250,000 that […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/add-beisbol-to-casa-de-campos-rich-sporting-life/feed 0 James Connects Unlikely Dots Between Dewey, Pitt & my Wife https://www.halphillips.net/james-connects-unlikely-dots-between-dewey-pitt-amp-my-wife?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=james-connects-unlikely-dots-between-dewey-pitt-amp-my-wife https://www.halphillips.net/james-connects-unlikely-dots-between-dewey-pitt-amp-my-wife#respond Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:05:27 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=1352 Out of the blue Thursday night the wife suggested we order, On Demand, one of the movies nominated for Academy Awards. It came down to Tree of Life, Midnight in Paris or Moneyball. We went with Moneyball and both found it extremely enjoyable. Some 12 hours later, I happened upon an all-too-rare but typically brilliant […]

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