Written Posts
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game
The Cincinnati Red Stockings played what many consider to be the very first professional baseball game on May 4, 1869. More than 150 years have come and gone since that first professional pitch was hurled toward that very first batter. When my British buddy Neville Jacob attended his very first MLB game, I not only…
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Play Ball!
Pitchers and catchers check in first, reporting for work in mid-February. A few days later their teammates and coaches join them out on practice fields scattered across the Valley of the Sun. Baseball fans start flocking to the Valley from all over the Country for Cactus League spring training games a few weeks later. 10…
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Welcome!
The Beagle has landed! It’s official. After 43 years, numerous discussions, hundreds of photographs and thousands of pints of barista coffee we have begun our ‘Journey Through America’. We, being one Nicholas Charles Adler and Neville Peter Jacob, buddies, former kings of the road, lovers of travel and purveyors of a good yarn. In his…
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How we met
There is an old joke about a hitchhiker whom, when offered a lift on an out-of-the-way highway, asks the driver if he was nervous about picking up strangers. ‘After all,’ said the hitchhiker, ‘I might even be a serial killer’. The driver responded calmly that ‘he was not nervous in the least, because the odds…
The American Beagle 