I have had the pleasure of knowing Jesse Braverman for many years as a teammate on the Whiz Kids. He is always ready to do whatever the team needs, be it as a player, BP pitcher, fungo hitter, etc. Don't let the "aw, shucks" persona fool you. He is as tough a competitor as anyone. But he is more than that. He i...
Albanys Bill Kervan, Fred Pigeon and Brad Buchan are playing for the Avengers this week in the Roy Hobbs World Series in Ft Myers. Sunday they beat Toledo McGuire Insurance in a shortened game with Kervan going a solid 5 innings, Pidgeon sending some booming shots to far out in LCF for several RBIs and B...
A much better effort today, but we fell 5-3 to a talented Sacramento Royals team. Our lefty Jimmies (Tesoriero and Preller) kept us in the game from the mound. We were down 5 in the 7th when we broke through for our first runs of the tourney, making it a 5-3 contest. But thats where it stayed. Several guys h...
Well today we played a team that was undefeated in round robin play last year the Sacramento Royals. Jimmy Tesoriero was on the mound and was fantastic. He pitched 7 innings and with some unfortunate miscues he still held this Sacramento team to 5 runs. Jimmy Preller did the closing job and held them to...
Sunday was a somewhat dreary overcast day in Clearwater, but it was 80 degrees or so. So, yeah, not so bad. The Capitals started their tourney against a sponsored squad from Cleveland that had moved up to the 50s after playing several years in the 45+ American Division. They were pretty good. The Capit...
We woke up this morning most guys at 5am staring at the ceiling, WAITING for 930am . We squared off against a feisty Delaware team who played most their games tough this week. Dave Smitherman started the game and got us to the 6th inning, up 7-0 Ryan Johnson stole a base and some of the other teams guys got p...
Definitley like to thank everyone for all the support for us down here. we squared up today against the Atlanta Saints ( Giants ) who were in the finals 3 years ago so we considered an elimination game. Because if we dont win here we have a long road to the finals. First off everyone stepped up and gave thei...
Day 2 was a difficult one to grasp. We took a lead early 2-0 against team CT for 5 when a couple misques by the umps put us in a bad position. The biggest when our pitcher spiked a curve into the front foot of a lefty batter which Caromed off the foot of the Umpire, men on 2nd and 3rd , the ball rolled down the smal...
Well game 1 started off a little suspect we got our lead off batter on and we ended up not scoring, bottom of the first the Louisville Senators scored first to take an early 1-0 lead . 2nd Inning our Bats finally arrived from the airport and we scored a quick 3 runs, starter Lex herrlett settled in and threw...
This Saturday there will be many baseball players with fear in their eyes when the Albany Capitals 50+ team start arriving in Clearwater, Florida for their second year. Last year the team only made it to the first round of the playoffs....but this year the team is healthier, has more experience, some...
Keep your fingers crossed for the Albany Yankees today. They lost a close (4-2) decision to last year's runner-ups (Connecticut Top Hats). The Yankees have a huge double header today (10:00 am vs the Fairfax Americans and 1:30 pm vs the Delaware Buccos). Going into the final game of the round robin at...
Just saw early results on Rensselaer Mayoral race. With 33% of precincts reporting, Jimmy K is in dead-heat against long time incumbent Dan Dwyer. Vote totals were dead even, with each at 50%.....you go JK!
Good luck to Ted Poleto's Inland Angels (with Tom Maney and Jeff Madden on the roster) as they play today in Arizona at 9:30 a.m. (Pacific time) in the 60s Cactus Championship game against the Colorado Stars. The defending champion Angels dominated pool play with a 5-1 record, allowing only 12 runs in...
AGAIN I want to congratulate Mike Girard and his teammates for representing the capital district well in AZ. hopefully we can try to do the same next week. Now this up coming week Nov 6-11 , I will be managing a team in the 45 division at the World classic in Florida. A team compiled of players from the 45s a...
MSBL Arizona is the largest mens baseball event in world , (followed by its eastern version in Florida). As such it accommodates multiple age divisions. Our 55+ team Arizona performed with heart coming up just short of their goal. Others are, or will be in action soon. The afore noted 45+ Albany Yanke...
