The Sashman Speaks

Living in the world we do today, we aren't a trusting nation, we aren't trusting of ourselves or even each other. How did we get to this place?  All I know is that this is NOT a world that I am enjoying being a part of.  This is a world where we can't seem to trust/believe/love/one another without questioning their truthfulness, the legitimacy of what is being said.  However, we are soo quick to make a judgment/decision not based on what we think or feel, but what we see and hear. We are a country where most of us believe as I stated above that we are more trusting of what we hear or read on social media or from other online sources, rather than actually take the time to research as well as to question what it is what we are trying to figure out, prior to making a decision based on NO evidence. I am truly afraid of the where this country is headed, and this isn't about politics or about whose side someone is on or what they believe.  Yet, it goes to how we were ...

It was on April 15,1997,  fifty years after Jackie Robinson would step onto a Major League baseball field, that then, Commissioner of Baseball, Bud Selig announced at then Shea Stadium home of the New York Mets, that from that day forward the number 42 would be retired by all 30 MLB teams.  While a few players would continue to wear that number, by the time of his retirement in 2013, Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees would be the last player to wear that number. While Robinson's number being retired is much due to his impact not just on the game of baseball, but also on society as a whole is rightfully awarded, so should another players number whose impact  was similar to that of Robinson's was felt much more off the field by his philanthropic activities than on the ballfield. That player is Roberto Clemente.  Clemente who spent his entire 18-year career with the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1955-1972 saw him go from a little-known player playing in fron...