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Tongue-Tied

By Terry B. August 10, 2020

Sometimes, less is more. But not usually when you’re on the radio and there’ll be dead air if you don’t talk. In November of 2006, I got to announce my first college sporting event. I was a freshman at Saint Xavier University and was put on the call of their women’s basketball game for our […]

Terry’s Odyssey

By Terry B. January 9, 2020

“Well, I’d better start packing,” I announced as I rose from my chair by the door. I had been sitting in the common room of the London flat I shared with 11 other American students. Grant, one of my flatmates, sat on the couch to my right and Jake, another resident of Flat 17, was […]

Larry Walker or: How I Finally Gave Up and Stopped Trying to Determine Hall of Fame Qualifications

By Terry B. January 24, 2019 Leave a comment

For the past three years, I have been leading the campaign to get Larry Walker into the Hall of Fame. The campaign has mostly involved talking him up to people who don’t actually have Hall of Fame votes, so you’d think it would be largely ineffective, but his voting totals have gone up every year […]

WGN – Chicago’s Very Own Home for Baseball

By Terry B. February 15, 2018 Leave a comment

When the White Sox and WGN announced that they had reached an agreement to broadcast all 162 games for the upcoming baseball season and beyond, I heard a lot of celebration that baseball is back on WGN after a three-year drought. But I also heard people express the oddness that it’s the White Sox they’ll […]

25 years of Frontier Leaguing

By Terry B. May 11, 2017

[Originally published in the Windy City ThunderBolts game program in May, 2017] On June 30, 1993, eight teams began play in the Frontier professional baseball League and a new era of baseball was born. Well, maybe not exactly a new era. In fact, independent baseball is just about as old as baseball itself with leagues […]

2015-We hardly kne…you get the idea

By Terry B. September 18, 2015

[Originally published on wcthunderbolts.com in September, 2015] I confess I’ve seen a lot of baseball in my life. But I don’t remember ever seeing a stretch of games like the first 64 that the ThunderBolts played this year. Exactly two thirds of the way through the season, after watching this team play day after day […]

2013-We hardly knew ye

By Terry B. September 18, 2013

[Originally published on wcthunderbolts.com in September, 2013] On August 26 of last year, the ThunderBolts suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the eventual champion Southern Illinois Miners. They lost leads in the seventh and eighth and then dropped the game in the tenth. The loss effectively ended the ThunderBolts’ playoff hopes but it […]

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