I know with Christmas just over a week away, it’s hard to think about baseball. But Spring Training is only two months away so it will be here sooner than you think. I just wanted to let everyone know what we’re working on for the upcoming 2016 season.
We’re going to try and avoid the
journalistic writing for the season and focus more on opinion-style topics and
focus on history and memories of the game. We will continue with our “This Day
In Baseball History” feature and add a new twist. Seeing as the 2016 season will be the 40th
in the history of the Toronto Blue Jays, we will introduce a “This Day In Blue
Jays’ History” series.
Also to help celebrate the 40th
Anniversary of the Blue Jays, we will be presenting our “Top 40 All-time Blue
Jays.” Also, the goal is to open a YouTube page, where I will dive into my vast
archives of old Blue Jays’ games and upload many for you to enjoy.
And for you fans of the Montreal
Expos, there will be a five-part series coming, most likely in September, to
celebrate the 35th anniversary of the 1981 National League East
championship, the only one in Expos’ history.
And if you’re not a fan of either
of those teams, we will have much for you to enjoy as well: All-star week will
look back at some historic moments in the All-star game, pre-1980s (if you remember,
we focused on great moments from 1986 onwards during last year's All-Star Break). Hall of Fame Week will feature
profiles on all inductees as well as my commentary on players who I feel should
be in the Hall but have yet to be inducted.
We will also put the spotlight
back on Goderich, Ontario pitcher Brock Dykxhoorn, who will be in his second
full professional season after pitching for the Quad Cities River Bandits
during the 2015 season, as well as helping Canada win gold at the Pan-Am games
in Toronto.
All this and more will start to
appear on the blog around the beginning of March. Until then, we will continue
our focus on other sports. The World Junior Hockey Championships will start on
Boxing Day and there will be some posts honouring the two five-in-a-row runs, first down in the mid-1990s, then repeated in the first decade of the current millenium.
The College Bowl season gets going as well and we will look at the major bowls
and College Football playoff in the days leading up to the New Year.
January will see us focus on the
NFL playoffs and we will take you back to re-live some classic moments and
great games.
Much to look forward to in the
coming months for Top Of The Third and I hope you enjoy reading the posts as
much as I enjoy writing them.
Please feel free to e-mail me
comments, suggestions and questions to topofthethird@gmail.com.
I look forward to hearing from you.
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