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Greenwood: MLB owners, players deserve one another

Apparently, even in the context of a pandemic, fatally stealing a man's most inalienable right and its resulting street violence, one of the few diversions is watching billionaires and millionaires squabble across a virtual negotiating table. Welcome to the latest skirmish in the ongoing war ...

Fall sports, fields, golf’s popularlity all in mind as June begins

Here are a few tids and bits as we welcome in June, hoping it brings progress following all the rough times we've all experienced or seen experienced lately: ---- Now that we're coming to the near end of the school year, the focus will soon be on the fall season possibilities for school ...

NH baseball players lucky to have Lunn and Walker

It felt like a perpetual rainout. Tim Lunn got the word from State American Legion Baseball chairman Rick Harvey about three weeks ago. The state Legion season was cancelled, thanks to a directive from the National Organization. He tossed and turned that entire Sunday night. So he knew what ...

Time Travel: Coffey Post has new coach for 1955

MAY 30, 1955 – “Ernest Berube, former Nashua High and Junior Legion baseball star, was named coach of the 1955 James E. Coffey Post American Legion baseball team. He succeeded Alan Thomaier. Also, the announcement of Ernest Maynard as the new Athletic Officer was made.” MAY 30, 1975 – ...

Greenwood: At least no managers are on the hot seat

There is one up-side, albeit tiny, to Major League Baseball’s pandemic hiatus: No managers have been fired. Well, at least not since the fallout from the great sign-stealing caper, which took down Houston’s A. J. Hinch and the Red Sox’ Alex Cora. It also ended Carlos Beltran’s ...

Greenwood: MLB owners, players may be destroying one another

As always, there is an overload of stupidity in the room when the Major League Baseball owners and the Major League Baseball Players Association take their spots at the negotiating table. For those who might balk at labeling it stupidity, feel free find a gentler label. Regardless, the two ...