The Dream of the '90s is alive in Portland.

No, it ain't no highfalutin' art. But it ain't bad, neither.

Today at least, he sure wasn't Captain Groundout.

From my seat at The Big A:

and the 2011 Bob Davids Award, SABR's highest honor, goes to my old Fenway friend Bill Nowlin.

Game is starting and I am sitting with @schoolofrox and Dan Epstein!

Same cemetery, Cooperstowner Bobby Wallace (coming soon: Million Dollar Idea) ...

Hall of Famer Wahoo Sam Crawford, not far from LAX ...

And continuing a grand tradition, a game of catch with the Spahn glove ...

Same cemetery, overlooking the Pacific, we found Al Gionfriddo ...

Eddie Mathews might have the most unassuming marker among recently deceased Hall of Famers.

This is the view (well, a little slice of it anyway) from our supper table: