I was searching for something on YouTube when I came across this song. From 1975 to 1980, this song was played before every Rangers home game and also after every Rangers victory! I listened to it and I loved it. I wish they still played it.
As for my Rangers this season, they’ve currently got a 36-36 record and they’re in third place in the AL West. Luckily, there’s still a lot of baseball to be played and the Astros are only leading by five games. That’s one thing I love about baseball. You’re never really out of contention, unless you’re the White Sox.
I’m not even a Red Sox fan but, if I’m ever in Boston, I’m going to visit Fenway Park just so I can see the Red Seat.
Photograph by David
This red seat, in the right field bleachers, is where the longest home run in Fenway Park’s history landed. It was hit by Ted Williams on June 9th, 1946. That’s 79 years ago today. The seat was painted red in 1981 to honor Williams’s achievement and to make sure that no one forgot a piece of baseball history.
Photograph by Ewen Roberts
I’ve searcedh for any available film of Ted Williams hitting that record-setting homerun but I haven’t been able to find it. I’ve found a lot of other Ted Williams’s home runs. He was an amazing hitter and I wish I could go back and actually watch him play. The next best thing, though, is this red seat, reminding everyone of his accomplishment.
This red seat epitomizes why I will always love baseball. I don’t know how many times Ted Williams swung his bat over his career or how many total hits he got. According to Wikipedia, he hit 521 career home runs. But I will always know just how far he hit that ball 79 years ago in Fenway Park.
61* is about two baseball player and two friends who couldn’t seem to be more different.
Roger Maris (Barry Pepper) is an introverted family man who doesn’t like it when reporters show up at his house in search of a story or a quote. He’s a good ball player, one of the best, but he doesn’t want to be a celebrity. Mickey Mantle (Thomas Jane) is a larger-than-life personality, a beloved figure on the field and in the dugout. Mickey loves being famous and the fans love him. Both Maris and Mantle are members of the New York Yankees. Because Mantle is struggling with his drinking, he becomes Maris’s roommate when they’re on the road. In 1961, the two friends both go after Babe Ruth’s record of 60 home runs in a season. The press presents their season as a battle, a race to see who will be the first to hit the sixty-first home run of the season. Mantle and Maris, though, are just swinging the bat and making plays.
I really enjoyed 61*, which is a baseball film made by and for people who love baseball. I liked the contrast between the quiet Maris and the charismatic Mantle. Even though Maris is a hard worker and a good ballplayer, Mantle is the fan favorite and the one that people actually want to break the record. I appreciated that Maris and Mantle remained friends even when the press tried to turn them into rivals. That’s what teamwork is all about. Barry Pepper and Thomas Jane were great as Maris and Mantle and the movie showed how each man dealt with the stress of possibly breaking Babe Ruth’s record.
(Why is there an asterisk in the title? Babe Ruth set his record in a season that only had 154 games. The 1961 baseball season was 8 games longer. The asterisk was added as a reminder that Maris and Mantle had 8 more games than Ruth did to try to break the record. Baseball fans understand how important accurate statistics are to a player’s career and a team’s season.)
61* celebrates the way baseball used to be, a game played by athletes who had to depend on skill and teamwork instead of performance enhancing drugs. The movie opens with Maris’s family watching as Mark McGuire closes in on breaking the record. McGuire would only briefly hold the record. He would lose it, for 48 minutes, to Sammy Sosa and then, three years after winning it back, he would lose it a second time to Barry Bonds. Of course, Roger Maris won the record without using steroids so, as far as I’m concerned, it still belongs to him.
If you’re a baseball fan, 61* is a film that you have to see.
I don’t want to jinx anything and the season is not even a month old but right now, my rangers are 7-2 and I’m feeling pretty good. Yesterday, they beat the Rays 5-2 and today, they beat them 6-4. I just hope the Rangers can keep winning like this for the entire season because there is a long way to go!
Here are the highlights of yesterday’s game against the Rays!
The Rangers finally got a day off from playing today. Personally, I think they more than earned it. Yesterday, they won their second series of the regular season, defeating the Reds with a score of 1-0. Two weeks into the regular season and my team is 5-2 and at the top of AL West. That’s what I love to see!
Tomorrow, they play the Rays. For now, here’s the highlights of yesterday’s game!
1-0 may not be the biggest victory in the history of baseball but I’ll take it! Coming after a night when the Reds scored 14 runs against the Rangers, I’m happy with our one to zero victory. Last night, the Reds put on a hitting clinic. Tonight, the Rangers and Nathan Eovaldi put on a pitching clinic. Eovaldi pitched a complete game shutout giving up just four hits and striking out eight. He did not walk a single batter.
Our one run, the winning run of the game, was scored by Wyatt Langford.
The Rangers are now 4-2 and practically tied with the Angels for the lead in the American League West.
I was feeling bad about missing tonight’s game between the Rangers and the Reds but then I looked at the score — 14-3, Reds — and I realized maybe it was for the best! Just looking at the numbers, it looks like the Reds put on a hitting clinic and the Rangers had no answer for it.
That’s baseball. You’re going to lose a few. Let’s hope this is just a fluke and not a sign of things to come.
My Rangers got a wonderful win this afternoon, defeating the Red Sox by a score of 3-2 and winning their first series of the regular season! Today’s game really reminded me why I love baseball so much. It’s also reminded me how much fun it is to watch your team win.
From Jacob deGrom’s six strikeouts to the home runs hit by Adolis Garcia and Wyatt Langford, here are the highlights of a great game!
Oh, I’m in a good mood tonight! Despite some early struggles that gave me heartburn, the Rangers pulled off a 4-3 victory over the Red Sox! And Adolis Garcia got his first home run of the regular season!
Here’s hoping for our first 2025 series win tomorrow!
Tonight, the Texas Rangers defeated the Boston Red Sox, 4-11 It was the team’s first victory of the regular season and it also featured the first two Rangers home runs of the regular season! Both of those home runs were hit by Jonah Heim!
Through the Shattered Lens 