Winners of the Avon Lakers’ raffle

Congratulations to all the winners and thank you everyone who bought bought a ticket!
$500- Bev klien
$200- Paul Froncak
$75- Diane Alderson
$75- Jim Wunderlich
$50- Trent Bienek
$50- Jeff Laing
$- Quinn Gibson

Flip Flop Fly Ball

This is what happens when you combine a passion for baseball and info graphics.
My favorite: Assembling & Dismantling the World Series winning team

2009 Black Sox Tournament Bracket

Avon will again be a co-host for the 3rd annual Freeport Black Sox Tournament. The tournament kicks off Friday, May 16th with the Upsala Blue Jays coming to town. In Freeport, the Opole Bears will take on the Black Sox.
View the entire bracket

Facts about bulldozers and moustaches

13 Curious Clauses in Baseball Contracts

Vindication for Smithy “Wimpy” Smith

I’m glad to be back in the blogosphere after a very, very long hiatus.  I wasn’t sure what would bring me back, but after checking out some recent headlines I saw the thing that required me to post again.  This video not only brought me back from blogosphere death, but is vindication for our very [...]

Hey Mister, you want some candy corn?

What is candy corn and how is it made?
I figure Dets and “Mount Everett” should know a little about what they are eating.
After looking through the article I think adding a stick of butter to the candy corn bag must have been Everett’s idea.

Jason Bourne Lives

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne is being brought out of retirement for a fourth film in the successful “Bourne Identity” franchise, entertainment industry press reported Friday.
Daily Variety reported that Hollywood studio Universal had initially planned to shelve the action series based on Robert Ludlum’s books and starring Matt Damon, following last [...]

Evan says Thank You

We celebrated my son, Evan’s 6th birthday after our game verses Opole last Saturday. Some of the Lakers stopped by to give Evan a card and a gift. Evan was fired up to see his Laker buddies crash his party and is very thankful for the card (sign by the whole team) and gift.
He [...]

Dets is Free Fallin’

Gary Deters joined the band The Crawlers for their gig at the Pearl Lake Lodge on July 9th after their game against the Pearl Lake Lakers. It was planned for about 3 months that he would join them and sing Free Fallin’ by Tom Petty…his favorite song. It’s a little dark and a little [...]

Brave or idiotic?

Well, I’m going with idiotic.  I think there’s a time to just give up, but not this moronic dog!
Somewhere there is a naked Porcupine!
This Pit Bull decided he would attack a poor Porcupine; but being brave and stupid, he learned the hard way that you can’t always win, no matter how tough you are. [...]