1988 Stories - Corn Nation
Let's Go to the Videotape: Mel Allen on Spring Training, 1988
Baseball has finally, finally, nearly, finally arrived, and not a moment too soon. After an off season where the Mets' biggest acquisitions were executives and lawsuits, it will be nice to talk about actual players and games for a change (in between endless, baseless speculation about the team's...
Let's Go to the Videotape: This Week in Baseball, 1988
We return, yet again, to that star-crossed year of 1988 for this edition of Let's Go to the Videotape. Tucked on a VHS tape with another awesome item I hope to share in the future (tease), I found an episode of This Week in Baseball with a few segments that have some Metsian significance. TWIB...
Let's Go to the Videotape: The Dry Wit of Bert Blyleven, 1988
Today Let's Go to the Videotape returns to the 1988 baseball preview produced by NBC Sports, which we've looked at a few times already. (To refresh your memory: It's the one that uses The Cure's "Just Like Heaven" as bumper music for some bizarre reason.) With Bert Blyleven once again a candidate...
Let's Go to the Videotape: The Lighter Side of Baseball, Circa 1988
For the latest installment of Let's Go to the Videotape, we take a slight step backwards into 1988. These clips come from the same TWIB-produced spring training preview excerpted in this post. But whereas that one referenced the upcoming NL East race, this one takes a look at The Lighter Side of...
Let's Go to the Videotape: 1988 NL East Preview
As I wrote in my last post, we have a long, cold winter ahead of us. What better way to cope with it than remembrances of things past? Today I have yet another clip from the Vast and Dusty Scratchbomb VHS Archives. I hope it will stir up memories for fans of a certain age, and if you're younger...
49ers Year-by-Year: 1988
This is a brief historical summary of the San Francisco 49ers' 1988 season. The 49ers had just been catapulted out of the playoffs by the Vikings, and the health and longevity of Joe Montana was as much as question as ever. How would they deal with the devastating loss? How would they handle the...
It Was 20 Years Ago Today
"It was 20 years ago today"....are famous words that opened the Beatles Sgt. Pepper album - which I thought sucked it big time. I'm a mega Fab Four fan that owns over three dozen discs, but that one in it's entirety will never do it for me.Just as the Wayne Gretzky trade that happened "20 years ago...
Shooting Pointe Blank: Kansas State
In watching the Kansas State-Nebraska game once more, I decided to do so from a different perspective. Sure, I enjoyed seeing the plays ran again, but it was how they were ran and how eerily familiar this was. In a year where Michigan is not only staying home for the holidays but having their...
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