A day or so ago I wrote about a somewhat remarkable baseball performance that occurred this past week in a Baltimore Orioles game; one that went all but unreported in the mainstream baseball media. Today, I’ll give you the skinny on another. Most baseball fans by now know that Oriole 1B Chris Davis beat the [...]
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I never knew Harmon Killebrew. But I knew Donnie Cieloch. And when I was a kid growing up in Syracuse, New York, in my neighborhood Don Cieloch was Harmon Killebrew. Cieloch (pronounced SEE-lock) was a short, barrel-chested Polish kid who lived just down the street from me. And he wasn’t so much a great athlete, [...]
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A few weeks ago, just before Christmas, Hall of Famer and Cleveland Indian legend Bob Feller passed away. The Baseball media, deservedly so, busied itself paying homage to Feller, not just for his performance on the mound, but for his being the first major league player to volunteer for active duty following Pearl Harbor. But [...]
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About M.C.
M.C. Antil is a Chicago-based writer, baseball junkie and self-styled pop culture omnivore who has fed his addictions over the years by successfully holding down a series of day jobs, most notably as a communications and marketing strategist in the competitive and often hyperkinetic worlds of television, new media and professional sports.
