Talking Sports with Don Laible

Long before winning a World Series championship as a Minnesota Twin, Mike Pagliarulo learned what it meant to be a professional baseball player in Oneonta, New York. Fresh off of playing 70 games for Division-I college ball for the University of Miami Hurricanes in South Florida, a season that included the team's participation in the College World Seies tournament, Pagliarulo was ready to give pro ball a shot.

After having their entire 2020 season wiped away due to COVID-19, the Syracuse Mets are ready to resume playing a full 120 game Triple-A East schedule. The club will be playing 60 home games on the city's North Side at NBT Bank Stadium.

It was no accident that Wayne Garrett played 10 MLB seasons. Garrett had a pretty good run in baseball. 40-plus years since he took his last swings at the plate for the Chunichi Dragons of of Japan's Central League, Garrett is living the good life.

There's only one Ira Berkow. The people he has interviewed is a who's who of sports. Name a sport, pick the biggest name it has, and Berkow not only has written a column or feature about them but chances are he's dined with them, too.

During his 12-year MLB career, Utican Dave Cash played with and against some of the game's greatest.

When it comes to talk of Major League Baseball putting a club in Nashville, R.A. Dickey is in the know. It was back in 1998 that baseball last expanded. 22 years ago, it was the Florida Marlins (changed to Miami Marlins in 2012) and Colorado Rockies ownership groups each ponying up $130 million expansion fee to enter the National League.