A Historic Fluke? My latest for The Hardball Times

In my latest article for The Hardball Times, I take a look at a historic oddity regarding Jim Leyland, Mike Scioscia and Ozzie Guillen.

Each of them managed a World Series winner without a clear Hall of Famer on their playoff roster. And the only other teams to have won the World Series without a future Hall of Famer (the '81 and '88 Dodgers and the '84 Tigers) had Hall of Fame managers.

So is this a fluke? Or are Leyland, Scioscia and Guillen putting together Cooperstown resumes?

You can read the article here.

Tommy Lasorda on Police Squad!... just because I love this clip

For those of you who only knew Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin from The Naked Gun movies, please please PLEASE watch Police Squad! The show was as close to TV comedy perfection as we have ever seen.

Here Johnny the Shoe Shine guy gives Tommy Lasorda some good advice.

Degrees of Mike Morgan - My latest for The Hardball Times

Has there ever been a crazier career filled with more contradictions than the one Mike Morgan had? The answer is "no."

What other player was a high school player brought up too soon... and a wily veteran playing longer than anyone could have thought?

Who else looked like the poster child of unfulfilled talent... only to become an All Star, a millionaire many times over and a World Series champ?

He played along side Hall of Famers, Cy Young winners, MVPs and for some of the greatest managers of all time... all the while bouncing from team to team between 1978 and 2002.

It was a wonderfully nutty career worth celebrating.

And I do so on The Hardball Times.

Read the article HERE.