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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Here we are just over a month into the baseball season, the time of year when it’s always been possible to pore over the Major League Baseball standings on any given morning, pick out a team or two in each league and say, “Wow. They suck.” For years, you could point to where a couple of [...]
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Every spring, when I start looking around for teams likely to have disappointing seasons, I look at one thing; the club’s bullpen. Because just as no NFL team can win without a quality offensive line, and no NBA team can win without a solid point guard, I truly believe no baseball team — regardless of [...]
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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.
