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Update!

Posted by olabner on May 27, 2022May 27, 2022 in College, Missouri State, MVC, Photos

Hello again. Thanks for stopping by. I (Mary) took quite a bit of time off OA due to burnout and other mental health issues. I’ve followed baseball gleefully for 30 years, but when I felt like I had to write…

Baseball in the Age of Corona

Posted by olabner on March 11, 2020March 11, 2020 in College, Ethics, Fan, Missouri State, MVC, Photos

Welcome back. I was supposed to be on a plane today but postponed my flight because I had a cold and didn’t want to fly to the PNW considering certain factors. Besides, American Airlines will call you back in a…

Jolly Old Saint Carpenter visits SGF

Posted by olabner on July 28, 2019August 3, 2019 in Minors, MLB, Photos, Springfield Cardinals, St. Louis Cardinals

Matt Carpenter visited Springfield to play third base for the Baby Birds and gather his wings to fly back to St. Louis. He went 0-21 in five games. Next – to Memphis (AAA)! A slideshow from July 26 – night…

minor league day

Posted by olabner on July 11, 2019August 3, 2019 in Minors, Photos, Springfield Cardinals

Just a few kids trying to make it big … by

Fly high, lil Birds, fly high

Posted by olabner on June 17, 2019August 3, 2019 in Minors, Photos, Springfield Cardinals

Just some Baby Birds preparing the fly, fly away to St. Louis: the city with basepaths paved with gold and per diems that can pay for sushi instead of burgers. You can have it all … by

Winning, and then some

Posted by olabner on May 12, 2019 in Minors, Springfield Cardinals

Such a game when your team falls behind 5-1 into the 9th. I wondered what I might do later that night, still overly caffeinated from several days of updating my website in the hopes of drawing eyes and wallets. Next…

Losing and then some

Posted by olabner on May 12, 2019May 12, 2019 in Minors, Photos, Springfield Cardinals

Sometimes your side gets picked off twice in one game, losing baserunners when you’re struggling to give them a base to begin with. Then you’re smiling like you don’t mean it. Then it happens again: (The other pix made it…

Luke Dykstra (Cards)

Posted by olabner on October 1, 2018October 9, 2018 in Minors, Photos, Springfield Cardinals

Strange – I scheduled this post at the end of May so I could fill out the site for each Monday I was gone. This was the final day. Now he’s somewhere else; listed as released from his Cardinal affiliate…

Conner Greene, pitcher (Cards)

Posted by olabner on September 24, 2018October 9, 2018 in Minors, Springfield Cardinals

Conner Greene was sent up to Triple-A Memphis, and won the AAA National Championship with the Redbirds. Now he’s playing in the prestigious Arizona Fall League, still throwing as hard as he can, as he once told me, breathlessly, after…

new kids (part 2)

Posted by olabner on September 17, 2018October 9, 2018 in College, Missouri State, Photos

  A few young players worth watching while you still can (for cheap – and at beautiful Hammons Field in Springfield, MO). Now they’re competing against a new group of classmates. Some have transferred. Some have graduated. Some have burned…

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