Eric Folkerth

On this Thanksgiving morning, I’m posting a picture that shows you what I see every day as I am driving home from North Oak Cliff. This pic from the great Justin Terveen shows a much more swollen river than usual…I…

Today is the sixty-year anniversary.
Sixty years is a very long time.
But, for all of us who grew up here in Dallas, our city still lives with the legacy of the Kennedy assassination.

This is a very old song…

Today’s trip down baseball’s memory lane are two Sports Illustrated covers, from this week in time, 50 years apart.
The first is from the first week of November 1975, following the thrilling victory of “The Big Red Machine” over the…

We interrupt this week’s baseball posts for: Quadrophenia.
The album was released fifty years ago this week. One of my all time faves, it’s at or near the top of my “Desert Island” list.

Later, of course, the film version…

It is not an exaggeration to say that I wept openly last night.

It is not an exaggeration to say that as Dennise, Maria, and I leapt from our chairs, into the middle of the room —all in mutual tears…

Today’s blast from baseball’s past is this screaming headline from the Cincinnati Post, and more Cincinnati Reds memorabilia from the box in my closest.

As we’ve covered previously, my Dad bestowed me with a generational a love of the Reds…

Today’s baseball blast-from-the-past is this actual line up card from a Texas Rangers game on Sunday, October 2, 1977.

I am sure I bought this at a memorabilia convention somewhere in the Dallas area.
Probably at a Holiday Inn with…

Among folks have a certain age in North Texas, saying you were present for the major league debut of David Clyde is akin to what folks say about Woodstock: A lot more people say they were there than who likely…

This will be my first Texas Rangers World Series without my Dad. As I wrote the other day, I got so much of the joy/heartbreak of baseball from my Father. If I am honest, I put my baseball addiction away…

Sixty-two years.
Two Times.
One Game.
One Strike.

Whatever you think of our passion for our Texas Rangers, I have more baseball math for you this morning.

You may still think we (me) are (am) too cocky, brash, and…

This morning, at the conclusion of a truly entertaining ALCS between the Texas Rangers and the Houston Astros, I am thinking of the visionary leadership of Tom Vandergriff.

Vandergriff was a visionary not only because of his work to…

When I was a kid, my grandfather Mays gave me his copy of the “Encyclopedia of Baseball.” At the time, it was a one volume set that kept all the records of every team, every player, from the very beginning…